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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - When Lightning Strikes Sand, Lindau, social lemurs, sawfish, and more.

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- Kyle Hill - What Really Happens When Lightning Strikes Sand: The Science Behind a Viral Photo

 


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- Alex Wild - The Desert is not “Nowhere”

 

- Joanne Manaster - “In Saturn’s Rings” Movie Trailer

 

- Krystal D'Costa - What Can Social Behavior in Lemurs Tell Us About Ourselves?

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Lindau 2013: A receding horizon, now within reachandLindau 2013: The GPCR symphony

 

- John R. Platt - Last Chance for Sawfish?

 

- Dana Hunter - Peepei

 

- Pete Monfre - Two days, Three Doctors, Three Kids and Two Hundred and Thirty Desperate Patients

 

- Katie McKissick - When Image Sharing Goes Horribly Wrong

 

- David Wogan - In Africa, entrepreneurs are key to off-grid electricity innovation

 

- Bryan Bumgardner - Vote for the Best Summer Books on Science

 

- Fred Guterl - The Blurry Line Between Small and Quantum Small

 

- Christopher Crockett - NASA adds a new space telescope to its fleet of solar satellites

 

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