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#SciAmBlogs Thursday - Valentine s Day, Whale Sharks, Simian Space Race, Quantum Entanglement, Science News in Black Media, and more.

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With a slight delay compared to the usual scheduling, today we present both Image of the Week and Video of the Week.

- Rebecca Guenard - My Sweaty Valentine

 


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- Joel Taylor - Chocolat Anyone!

 

- Maria Konnikova - Valentine’s Day on the planet of the Little Prince

 

- Krystal D'Costa - Decoding the Art of Flirtation

 

- Evelyn Lamb - Romance, Continued Fractions, and You

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - How to Mend a Broken Heart

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Anxiety drug makes fish bolder and more asocial

 

- Eric Michael Johnson - Macaque and Dagger in the Simian Space Race

 

- John R. Platt - Whale Sharks in the News: Citizen Science, Migration Revelations and High Fashion

 

- George Musser - How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment, Part 2 (of 2)

 

- Scott McNally - Burning Buried Sunshine

 

- Dana Hunter - Interlude: What Vehicles Say About Temperatures Within a Volcanic Blast

 

- DNLee - Improving Science News in the Black Media: Lessons learned from my Ebony Magazine Twitter encounter

 

- Ingrid Wickelgren - Learn to Live in the Now [Video]

 

- Helene Brazier-Mitouart - Free Kits Help 10-Year-Olds See Their DNA

 

- Christie Wilcox - “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

 

- Larry Greenemeier - FDA Approves First Retinal Implant

 

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