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- Cadell Last – What Will the Internet Be in 2050?   - Cory Simon and Berend Smit – Viagra ads and NSA watch lists: smoke but usually no fire   - Julie Rehmeyer – The most unhelpful possible way to prove something   - Dana Mackenzie – In Love With Geometry and Why So [...]

- William Skaggs – How Could We Recognize Pain in an Octopus?   - Jag Bhalla – Is Money Like Food?   - Markus Pössel – Applied Purity   - Beatrice Lugger – The Thrill of Pure Thought and Abstraction   - Kathleen Raven – Tannosomes and the trickle-around effect   - Scicurious – IgNobels [...]

- Jack El-Hai – Listening to Stories from Nazis   - Beatrice Lugger – Predicting Future Crowd Behavior with Big Public Data   - Adrian Dudek – Musings from Heidelberg   - Scicurious – The IgNobels, 2013!

Video of the Week #110, September 18th, 2013: From: A Capella Science–Bohemian Gravity by Joanne Manaster at PsiVid. Source: Tim Blais of A Capella Science Taking the internet by storm is the smartest parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” ever sung, “Bohemian Gravity”, which attempts to explain String Theory in a compact 6 minutes.

Have fun with our newest Video of the Week! - Perrin Ireland – Dr. Ted Labuza on Slime, Bombs, and Rot and 40 Percent of Food in the US Never Gets Eaten   - Buddhini Samarasinghe – Hallmarks of Cancer 1: Self-Sufficiency in Growth Signals   - Markus Pössel – Escaping the Confucian trap   [...]

- Pete Monfre and Maggie Bencivenga – The Sea Change in Science Education: Corporate Stakeholders Step Up.   - Dana Mackenzie – A Warrior for the Blind   - Beatrice Lugger – Calistus N.

Enjoy the new Image of the Week! - Vijaysree Venkatraman – Conversation with a Field Biologist in India   - David Ropeik – “The Scarecrow” – Lots of Heart, But It Could Use More Brain   - Markus Pössel – “My brain is in town” and The Meta Post to the 6 out of 200 [...]

Image of the Week #109, September 16th, 2013: [Click to see large] From: Raising the Costa Concordia Shipwreck: How Do They Do It? by Mark Fischetti at Observations.

- Lawrence Rifkin – The Survival of Humanity   - Jag Bhalla – Non-grapefruit and fruitful non-science   - Jennifer Frazer – Wonderful Things: The Universe Between the Sand Grains   - George Musser – Save the Earth, Save Money—There’s No Need to Choose   - Melissa C.

Flying directly from SciFoo in California to WCSJ2013 in Helsinki, Finland is a pretty long trip that requires a pretty big airplane. Those of you who know me well, know I am obsessed with airplanes, am an addict of FlightAlert, choose JetBlue on domestic flights in order to continuously monitor flight statistics, and my first [...]

Guppies lie about mate choice to trick rivals by Anne-Marie Hodge: When it comes to sex among guppies, competition is high for those at the top of the game.

- Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters – Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect   - Anna Kuchment – Teachers and App Designers Join Forces   - Kyle Hill – Excerpts From The Mad Scientist’s Handbook: So You’re Ready to Vaporize a Human   - John R.

Last week, Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer ran a short Q&A with me about science blogs. I am also included (as #101) in the last issue of WIRED’s 101 Signals for Science: On September 23rd and 24th, I’ll be participating in The Evolving Culture of Science Engagement event at MIT, followed by the [...]

“Miriam has been reading science fiction again. That and Scientific American.” says a character of “Entropy”, an early Thomas Pynchon story, published in the collection “Slow Learner,” page 90.

Video of the Week #109, September 11th, 2013: From: Mosquito Preference and Erotic Vomit! Best of the Blogs for August is Live by Carin Bondar at PsiVid.

Image of the Week #108, September 11th, 2013: From: Waxbows: The Incredible Beauty of a Blown Out Candle by Kyle Hill at But Not Simpler. Source: Grover Schrayer With video so widely available, why would anyone choose to make still image?

- Andrew Jonathan Balmer – Why We Don’t Need Pandas   - Harry Cliff and Rupert Cole – LHC celebrates five years of not destroying the world   - Karen Stollznow – Perception and the Paranormal: The Tea Box Ghost   - Jason G.

Yes, the Food Week is over, but that does not stop our bloggers from writing fascinating posts on a whole range of other topics! But first check out the new Best of the Blogs video: - Erin C.

How does one review a book written by a friend? I guess one doesn’t, so this is not an “official” review, but a personal blog recommendation, and you can make up your own mind.

Today we finish the Food Week at #SciAmBlogs. You can find all the posts by searching Twitter for hashtag #SciAmFood. And we also have a new Image of the Week.

Image of the Week #107, September 6th, 2013: From: Introducing: The Food Matters Crew by Layla Eplett, Pamela Ronald, Kathleen Raven, Julianne Wyrick, Kevin Bonham, Patrick Mustain and See Arr Oh at Food Matters.

Wow, if I may say so myself, this was a wonderful week of food blogging! We launched a new group blog dedicated to food, and each of the seven bloggers posted this week.

“Behave, or I’ll send you to Italy!”. That’s a strange threat! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go there to visit the wine country, see the art in Florence, learn some history in Rome, and enjoy the Adriatic beaches?

- Julianne Wyrick – Astronaut nutrition: staying healthy for a year in space   - Patrick Mustain – It Is Not True That Kids Won’t Eat Healthy Food: Why The New USDA School Food Guidelines Are Very Necessary   - Cami Ryan – Labels and Other “Krafty” Stuff   - Caitlin Kirkwood – Tricking taste [...]