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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - Glia smarts, sirtuins, Daylight Saving Time, Karst and Sinkholes, Lake Vostok, and more.

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- Cory Simon - Post-Combustion CO2 Capture to Mitigate Climate Change: Separation Costs Energy

 

- David Stipp - Thinning the Fog around Sirtuins

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Let’s Not Spring Forward.

 

- Dana Hunter - Living (and Sometimes Dying) with Karst

 

- David Bressan - Down the Rabbit Hole

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Signs Of Life From Lake Vostok

 

- John R. Platt - Great Apes in Crisis: Thousands Poached and Stolen from the Wild Annually

 

- Darren Naish - Hunter and Barrett’s A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World

 

- Alex Wild - Thrifty Thursday: The Ant and the Watery Lens

 

- Eric R. Olson - The Countdown, Episode 17 – Mercury’s Magma Ocean, Flinging Space Trash, Spectacular Solar Images, Van Allen’s Third Belt, Massive Black Hole Spins Near Light-Speed

 

- John Matson - Naked-Eye Comet Pan-STARRS Climbing into Northern Skies

 

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