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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - salt-tolerant wheat, hormones and behavior, sedimentary rocks, the value of a PhD, and more.

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- Heather Bray and Matthew Gilliham - Ancient genes and modern science deliver salt-tolerant wheat

 

- Ashley Campbell - Empirically Dancing Your Way to the Top—How Nicole Dubilier Does It!


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- Psi Wavefunction - Pond water ‘microforay’: amoeba and ciliate sex gone horribly wrong

 

- Kate Clancy - Your Ability to Handle Your Environment is Correlated with your Hormones

 

- Dana Hunter - A Landscape in a Hand Sample: To Settle

 

- Christie Wilcox - Reversing a heart attack: scientists reprogram scar tissue into working muscle

 

- David Bressan - April 18, 1906: San Francisco´s O, Wicked Ground

 

- Scicurious - #Eb2012 Tweetup: How social media has influenced my career

 

- Dr. Becca - Small terms make a big difference: how the NY Times misinterpreted a new cocaine study

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - “Hangover Cure” Bus is a Moving Binge Drinking Ad

 

- John R. Platt - Threatened Philippine Hawk-Eagle Bred in Captivity for First Time

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - What does a Ph.D. in chemistry get you?

 

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Kate Prengaman

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Rose Eveleth

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Get Published: Significance Magazine

 

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Jumping spider rainbow

 

- Gerry Smith and Jim Haw - Catching up with Scientific Diving at USC Dornsife: What is Scientific Diving?

 

- DNLee - Science, Social Media, #SciComm and Sunny San Diego

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Science and Social Media at Experimental Biology in San DiegoandScienceSeeker Editor’s Picks: Superstition, “Up” North, Addiction, Mental Illness

 

- John Matson - When It Comes to Solar Storms, We Don’t Even Know How Bad It Might Get

 

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