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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - attention, chemistry Nobel, waterless fracking, singing mice, smart cockroaches, and more.

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Today we present both the Image of the Week and the Video of the Week.

- John McCarthy - How the brain does “attention” is still unknown

 


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- Ashutosh Jogalekar - G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) win 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Singing Mice May Join Humans and Songbirds As Vocal Learners

 

- Scott McNally - Waterless Fracking?

 

- Glendon Mellow - PDCA – Public Displays of Cephalopod Affection

 

- Ingrid Wickelgren - Watch The Incredible Shrinking Woman [Video]

 

- DNLee - Wordless Wednesday: Sunrise in Zanzibar

 

- Carin Bondar - Rhythms of the Solomons – A Stunning Harmony Between Island People and Marine Life

 

- Scicurious - You can carry a tune, you probably just drop it sometimes

 

- Katherine Harmon - Complex Brains Existed 520 Million Years Ago In Cockroach Relative

 

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