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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - social science, dancing sea lion, synthetic trees, car batteries, extremophiles and more.

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- Jag Bhalla - Better Models of Our Nature

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Ronan the Sea Lion Dances To The Backstreet Boys. So What?


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- Dana Hunter - Men, STEM, and Balance: Gilbert

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Upcoming Science Writers On How To Pitch To Science, Nature And Others

 

- David Wogan - University of Texas researchers design synthetic trees for producing water and energy efficient algal biofuels

 

- Darren Naish - Trematosauroids, those gharial-snouted, marine temnospondyls

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Moore’s Law and battery technology: No dice

 

- John R. Platt - Who Will Save the Last Hoolock Gibbons? [Video]

 

- John Horgan - Is "social science" an oxymoron? Will that ever change?

 

- David Biello - New Extremophile Breathes Rocket Fuel

 

- Kate Wong - Brain Shape Confirms Controversial Fossil as Oldest Human Ancestor

 

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