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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - Octopus Chronicles, gay penguins, GPS and more...

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The big news of the day is that we have a new blog on the network!

- Katherine Harmon - Welcome to Octopus Chronicles–A Blog About the Smartest CephalopodsandCamouflage-Changing Octopuses In the Deep, Dim Seas

 


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- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome Octopus Chronicles – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

 

The time for the new Video of the Week is usually on Wednesday, but it ended up being a very busy day, so the new video went up this morning instead. Enjoy!

From the bloggers:

- Eric Michael Johnson - Scientific Ethics and Stalin’s Ape-Man Superwarriors

 

- James Byrne - Bacterial Toxins

 

- David Bressan - The Devil’s Tail: What the Fossils say

 

- Princess Ojiaku - Neil deGrasse Tyson sings in autotune

 

- Katherine Harmon - Specialized Immune Cells Fight Hardening Arteries

 

- Philip Yam - Do You Use GPS? Say “Thanks” to Norman Ramsey (1915–2011)

 

- Larry Greenemeier - Researchers Look to the Cloud to Develop Personalized Medicine for Kids With Cancer

 

- Joanne Manaster - YouTube SpaceLab Video Contest for Teens

 

- John R. Platt - Should Gay, Endangered Penguins be Forced to Mate?

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Health and Medicine at ScienceOnline2012

 

- Alex Wild - The Money Shot

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor’s Selections: Crucifixion, Megafauna Extinction, and Coffins

 

- DNLee - Call for Submissions for Diversity in Science Carnival – Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Want to Go to the Stars? First You Must Stand With Science

 

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