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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Cesarean Sections, post-run shivers", Planthoppers of Iran, food insecurity, Apollo 11 in the sea, and more.

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As it is Wednesday, here is the brand new Video of the Week for your enjoyment (and laughter).

- Kirstin Hendrickson - Cesarean Sections in the U.S. - The Trouble with Assembling Evidence from Data

 


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- Scicurious - Running and thermoregulation: the post-run “shivers”

 

- Kate Clancy - Building Babies: Interview with Katie Hinde

 

- Jennifer Frazer - Planthoppers of Iran: Are You OK?

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Reading “White Coat, Black Hat” and discovering that ethicists might be black hats.

 

- James Byrne - What the fractal?

 

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Falling from above

 

- Tom Bech Letessier and Charles Sheppard - Conserving Chagos: What is this BRUV work?

 

- Katherine Harmon - How to Fight Food Insecurity, Even In a Changing ClimateandU.S. Cancer Rates Could Be Cut in Half Today Based on What’s Already Known

 

- John Matson - Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Says He Has Located Apollo 11 Rocket Engines Lost at Sea

 

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