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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - DNA patents, pink snow, Toronto blackout, night parrot, metaphors, GM wheat, and more.

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- Megan Krench - New Supreme Court decision rules that cDNA is patentable—what it means for research and genetic testing

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Wonderful Things: Don’t Eat the Pink Snow


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- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: Earthquake on Chimp Mountain

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Blackouts: anticipating and preventing the one-two punch

 

- Scott Huler - Toronto Rolls with the Grid

 

- John R. Platt - After 100 Years, Has the Elusive Night Parrot Finally Been Discovered?

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - The Neuroscience of Social Influence

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Lindau 2013: All our hopes and fears: Why we need psychologists at Lindau

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - In Defense Of Metaphors In Science Writing

 

- Anna Kuchment - The Founder of ‘Black Girls CODE’ Says Tech Design Needs More Female Voices

 

- Gary Stix - A Randomized Controlled Trial of Hip Hop

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - What the N.S.A. Knows About You

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Professional communities, barriers to inclusion, and the value of a posse.

 

- Arielle Duhaime-Ross - Mystery Lingers around Origin of GM Wheat in Oregon

 

- The Editors - Teach a Course for Scientific American and NYU-Poly

 

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