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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - preparing for death, shape of eels, petrels, slacktivism, conserving Chagos, and more.

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- Ilana Yurkiewicz - When a Patient is Ready to Talk About Death, but a Medical Student is Not

 


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- Lucas Brouwers - Thanks to Extra Genes, Eels Transform from Ribbons to Tubes

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Your Grandmother Was A Molecule

 

- Darren Naish - Living the pelagic life: of oil, enemies, giant eggs and telomeres (petrels part II)

 

- Colm Kelleher - A Random Walk through Oddly Named Physics Things

 

- Kevin Zelnio - On Slacktivism: Lessons From #Kony2012

 

- Bora Zivkovic - New Expeditions field series – Conserving Chagos

 

- Charles Sheppard - Conserving Chagos: Science Expedition to World’s Largest “Ocean Park”

 

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: The guests of honor: Salticidae

 

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Jessica Morrison and Do sponges have circadian clocks?

 

- John Matson - Where Did the Sun Come From? The Search Continues

 

- James Byrne - Adelaide Fringe 2012

 

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