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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Giant Pandas, Jonah Lehrer, Spider Assassin, new owl species, scientific metrics, and more.

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- Cadell Last - The Great (Ape) Taxonomy Debate

 

- Taylor Dobbs - #ProveitJonah: How Jonah Lehrer can prove his apology wasn’t a sham


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- Janet D. Stemwedel - Some musings on Jonah Lehrer’s $20,000 “meh culpa”.

 

- Becky Crew - Rinjani scops owl: New owl species discovered in Indonesia

 

- Perrin Ireland - Science Scribe Animates Toxic Couches

 

- John R. Platt - Giant Pandas at Risk from New Chinese Forestry Policies

 

- Bonnie Swoger - Providing context for the metrics used to evaluate the scientific literature

 

- David Wogan - Living with the Nest #3 – six months in

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - 35 Mostly Different Guidelines For Science Writers

 

- Kelly Oakes - Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a space rose

 

- Alex Wild - The Spider Assassin

 

- Scicurious - Picking a voice from the crowd: Focus on the face

 

- Fred Guterl - Obama Takes Aim at Climate Change, Cyber Security

 

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