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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - bird disease citizen science, dog words, Wild Sex, expertise, amoebae, Thanksgiving myths, and more.

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As usual on Wednesdays, we have a new Video of the Week. Happy Thanksgiving!

- Caren Cooper - Stone Soup for Thanksgiving: understanding bird disease through citizen science

 


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- David L. Levine - How I got to walk in the steps of Galileo?

 

- Bora Zivkovic - The other kinds of expertise

 

- Jason G. Goldman - For Word Learning, Size Matters If You’re A Dog

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Every Sperm is Sacred

 

- Dana Hunter - Learning the Language of Rivers III: The River Sings

 

- Christie Wilcox - Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Wild Sex excites me

 

- John Horgan - Thanksgiving Guilt Trip: How Warlike Were Native Americans Before Europeans Arrived?

 

- Charles Q. Choi - A Modest Proposal: Printed Cyborgs

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Introducing: Jon Tennant

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Amoebae shelled and naked

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Hello!? This is Your Conscience Speaking…

 

- DNLee - Wordless Wednesday: Happy Thanksgiving

 

- Daisy Yuhas - Why do physicists care so much about finding the Higgs boson?

 

- Kate Wong - Troubled Ape Facility Reinstates Controversial Researcher

 

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