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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Allomothers, Exome Sequencing, Writing about patients, Social Media For Scientists and more.

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Wednesday, thus time for a new Video of the Week!

- Kate Clancy - Happy Mother’s Day: To All the Allomothers

 


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- Ricki Lewis - 10 Things Exome Sequencing Can’t Do–But Why It’s Still Powerful

 

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Writing about patients: lessons from first year

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Introducing: Shara Yurkiewicz

 

- Ferris Jabr - Know Your Neurons: How to Classify Different Types of Neurons in the Brain’s Forest

 

- John R. Platt - Sanctuaries Established to Help Save Spectacular Kashmiri Goat

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - The purpose of a funding agency (and how that should affect its response to misconduct).

 

- Melissa C. Lott - America’s ‘Supersized’ Energy Waste

 

- Emily Lu - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The Coconut Crab in Guam

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Under construction – ITER in LEGO

 

- Christie Wilcox - Social Media For Scientists Part 5: It’s Time To e-Volve

 

- Scicurious - Environment Enrichment: making your rat sexy since 2012

 

- Christine Gorman - Microbes Annihilate the “Nature vs. Nurture” Debate

 

- John Matson - Animal Tracks: Music about Unusual Creatures Features Some Unusual Instruments [Video]

 

- David Biello - Soot May Help Shift Tropics North

 

- Robin Lloyd - Is Football to Blame for Players’ Suicides?

 

- Gary Stix - Paralyzed Patient Swills Coffee by Issuing Thought Commands to a Robot

 

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