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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - Mythbusters, attractive voice, photo finish, caffeinated amoeba, Ray Harryhausen, DSM-5, and more.

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- Kyle Hill - A Decade of Explosions: What ‘Mythbusters’ Taught Me

 


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- Susan Swanberg - Solving the Mysteries of the Human Condition Using Genetic Tools

 

- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica–Mathekphrastic Poetry, Part 2

 

- Scicurious - I heard her loveliness in her voice.

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - From classrooms to hospitals: when medicine doesn’t have all the answers

 

- Mary Karmelek - Winning in a Snap: A History of Photo Finishes and Horse Racing

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Coffee interferes with construction efforts… if you’re an amoeba

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - Turning Adversity into Creative Growth

 

- Scott Huler - Texas vs. North Carolina Steel Cage Match in Science Stupid

 

- Scott McNally - The Dirt on Oil Sands

 

- David Wogan - Enough with the fear-mongering, fracking edition

 

- Robert Fares - Could Disposable Coffee Pods Help Stem Climate Change?

 

- Darren Naish - Scenes from the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Failing the scientists-in-training: inside the frauds of Diederik Stapel (part 2)

 

- Ingrid Wickelgren - Can Doctors Diagnose MS from Blood?

 

- Becky Crew - Bats use Blood for Tongue Erections and Better Feeding

 

- S.E. Gould - How to eat your host: Pathways for nutrition in Salmonella

 

- Charles Q. Choi - A Modest Proposal: Google Glass Meets Tech Support

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - To See Pieces Of Halley's Comet, Just Look Up!

 

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Rain and Field WorkandThe Next Black King of the Kentucky Derby – Kevin Kriggerand#DispatchesDNLee: Week 2 - Getting to Work in Morogoro

 

- Gary Stix - Suicide Used As Plot Device in Car Ad, Public Health Norms Be Damned

 

- David Bressan - Cowboys, Dinosaurs & Evolution - A tribute to Ray Harryhausen

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - On synthesis, design and chemistry's outstanding philosophical problemsandClimate change denial, laissez-faire economics and conspiracy theories: A productive pairing?andNuclear energy for future citizens

 

- Ferris Jabr - No One Is Abandoning the DSM, But It Is Almost Time to Transform It

 

- John Horgan - Psychiatry in Crisis! Mental Health Director Rejects Psychiatric “Bible” and Replaces With… Nothing

 

- Jessica Reed - Bipolar Writer Comments on Debate Over “Crisis in Psychiatry”

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Fantasia: A Composer’s Experience of SynesthesiaandNeuroscience in Fiction: Stephen King’s The JauntandFat Tuesday: Facial Restoration

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - SEO Writing And How It’s Changing Science Writing Online

 

- Carin Bondar - Best of the Blogs Video – May 2013

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: May 4, 2013

 

- John R. Platt - Hammerhead Sharks, Houston Toads, Heavy Metal and Other Links from the Brink

 

- Larry Greenemeier - Will Business Step In to End a Sequester-Driven Research Funding Gap?

 

- Mariette DiChristina - A Busy Week at Scientific American: Meetings, Events and Honors

 

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