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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - Meliodosis, drones, chickens, Ulysses, dark matter, nodding disease, #TEDMED and more.

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A day late, but still here - new Video of the Week for your enjoyment.

- Claire Cusick - Scientist in the Kitchen: Jen Yu, Photographer, Blogger, Scientist, Cook

 


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- Ellen Crocker - Serendipity and science: 30 minutes with Dr. Sharon Long

 

- John Villasenor - What is a Drone, Anyway?

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Is medical school admission squashing creativity?

 

- James Byrne - Meliodosis

 

- Lucas Brouwers - A Spoonful of Molybdenum, some Ulysses and the Origin of Life

 

- Darren Naish - Chickens, 2012

 

- Charles Q. Choi - Visions: A Different Point of View

 

- DNLee - More Money, More problems – the cost of higher education

 

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Geometrical Jumping spiders

 

- Matthew Sturm - SnowSTAR-2012: Hoars and Drifters

 

- Jim Haw - Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: The Robot Submarine

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Erin Podolak

 

- Bora Zivkovic - What is: ScienceOnline Seattle

 

- S.E. Gould - Science song for a busy month

 

- Scicurious - Don’t forget to stop by for your Experimental Biology News!

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor’s Selections: Speaking In Tongues, Bi-Gendered Individuals, And The Prisoner’s Dilemma

 

- Gary Stix - Dark Matter Could Become a Hypochondriac’s New Nightmare

 

- Katherine Harmon - Nodding Disease Origins Remain Unexplained

 

- George Musser - Where Do Space and Time Come From? New Theory Offers Answers, If Only Physicists Can Figure It Out

 

- Michael Moyer - Will Computers Ever Know Everything?

 

- Ingrid Wickelgren - Can Atheists Be Happy? And Other Answers from Scientific American Mind

 

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