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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - Google Science Fair, smell of rain, firewalking, BioPlaytime, trilobites, self-citation, and more.

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- Kelly Izlar - Smelling the Rain

 


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- Jennifer Ouellette - Come Firewalk With Me: The Physics of Hot Coals

 

- S.E. Gould - The bacteria that help sheep eat grass

 

- David Bressan - Travels & Trilobites in Geology

 

- Hadas Shema - On Self-Citation

 

- Christina Agapakis - BioPlaytime

 

- Kelly Oakes - Twinkle twinkle globular star cluster

 

- David Wogan - Industry money and questionable ethics contaminate UT Austin fracking study

 

- John R. Platt - Bear Bile Industry Reportedly Shrinking in South Korea, but Chinese Market Stays Strong

 

- Glendon Mellow - Sally Ride – Portrait by Christopher Paluso

 

- Joanne Manaster - Inspirational "Science in Action" Video

 

- Anna Kuchment - Google Science Fair: Winners tackle breast cancer, hearing loss and water quality

 

- Jason G. Goldman - ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections: Sleep and Psychosis, Superhero Strength, Face Perception, War on Doping

 

- Katherine Harmon - Are Zombie Bees Infiltrating Your Neighborhood?

 

- Mark Fischetti - Want to Understand Climate Change? Try This Simple Book

 

- Kate Wong - Did Modern Humans—Not Environmental Catastrophe—Extinguish the Neandertals?

 

- Robin Lloyd - Massive Genomics Center Set to Open in Lower Manhattan

 

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