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Enjoy the new Video of the Week! - Layla Eplett – Pitch/Fork: The Relationship Between Sound And Taste   - See Arr Oh – Breaking Food Down   - Emily Buehler – Salt: Defender of the Carotenoids   - Judy Stone – Hidden Dangers Lurking in Your Food   - Bonnie Swoger – But the [...]

Video of the Week #108, September 4th, 2013: From: Pitch/Fork: The Relationship Between Sound And Taste by Layla Eplett at Food Matters. Source: Channel Four programme “How To Cook Like Heston” What is the relationship between sound and taste?

Yes, today we announced the launch of Food Matters, a group blog about food. - Layla Eplett, Pamela Ronald, Kathleen Raven, Julianne Wyrick, Kevin Bonham, Patrick Mustain and See Arr Oh – Introducing: The Food Matters Crew   - Kathleen Raven – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

You are probably aware that this is the Food Week on our blog network, following in the fooststeps of the publication of the special Food issue of the Scientific American magazine.

Yes, this week is the Food Week on #SciAmBlogs network! Keep coming back every day this week for a feast of blogging on all aspects of food, agriculture and nutrition.

You may have noticed that the September 2013 Issue of Scientific American Magazine is a special issue devoted to the topic of food, plus all the web-only exclusives.

I posted 3 times in August, including: Sharks have rhythm, too ScienceWriters2013 – great program in Gainsville in November. Previously in the “Best of…” series: 2013 July June May April March February January 2012 December November October September August July June May April March February January 2011 December November October September August July June May [...]

- Jag Bhalla – Maxims Are Fitter Than Maximization   - Katherine Harmon – Do Octopuses Feel Pain?   - Hannah Waters – How One Little Molecule Influences Earth’s Climate   - David Bressan – In Search of the Lost Land of Gold (and mummified baboons too)   - Janet D.

It is that time of year when I’d be remiss not to highlight all the amazing Science Notes articles written as final projects by students of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz.

Enjoy the latest Video of the Week. - Mary Ann McGarry – Stepping Into the Arena of Climate Change Education.   - Adam Kucharski – Keep it simple, stupid: maths doesn’t have to be ‘complex’   - Princess Ojiaku – It’s what you see at the concert, not what you hear   - Krystal D’Costa [...]

Video of the Week #107, August 29th, 2013: From: The Most Breathtaking Video of the Weather You’ll Watch This Week by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity.

- Charles Crookenden – A Feast of Cicadas   - Ricki Rusting – Call Us “Scientific Home Journal”   - Ashutosh Jogalekar – East Antarctic glaciers could be much more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought.

- Jesse Dunietz – Quantum Computing Disentangled: A Look Behind the D-Wave Buzz   - Judy Stone – Where’s the Real Danger from Infection This Summer?

I am back, so evening summaries are back as well. Don’t miss last week’s Image of the Week, this week’s Image of the Week and last week’s Video of the Week.

Image of the Week #106, August 26th, 2013: From: Earth Waves To Saturn: The Pictures by Caleb A. Scharf at Life, Unbounded. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA as an organization is positioned to deliver some of the greatest and most inspiring images in human history and they don’t shirk from that duty.

Video of the Week #106, August 21st, 2013: From: Olinguito: New Kid on the Block by Brian Malow at But Seriously…. Source: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences The olinguito has been a science media darling this past week.

Image of the Week #105, August 21st, 2013: From: The Real Neuroscience of Creativity by Scott Barry Kaufman at Beautiful Minds. Source: Advertising Agency: Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive, Tel Aviv, Israel, modified by io9.

- Karna Gowda – Empathetic Mapping: Redrawing Chicago to Examine School Choice   - William Skaggs – The Psychology of Freedom   - Becky Crew – Move Over, Mexican Jumping Beans – There’s a New Jumping Caterpillar in Town   - Evelyn Lamb – Sex Makes You Rich?

If you have not seen earlier, we have some changes of the line-up of blogger here at #SciAmBlogs. Also note a name-change – the Overthinking It blog is now called But Not Simpler.

Two years ago, barely a month after this blog network launched, Maria Konnikova published her first Guest Blog post about psychology of Sherlock Holmes.

- Karissa Milbury – Changing the cancer landscape   - Jag Bhalla – Is Economics More Like History Than Physics?   - Becky Crew – The Olinguito: A New Species That Looks House Cat Crossed With a Teddy Bear   - Jennifer Frazer – American Pecan Truffle May Be Coming to a Plate Near You, [...]

Enjoy the latest Video of the Week! - Ken Collins – It’s silly season, but there is a real shark threat to fear   - Judy Stone – Antibiotic resistance-another view from the trenches   - Jennifer Frazer – Chocolate Frosty Pod Rot and You   - Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L.

Video of the Week #105, August 14th, 2013: From: #SciAmBlogs Thursday – glass sponges, dog sounds, sharks friends, med school interviews, and more.

Discuss the newest Image of the Week! - Rob Dunn – Why Mosquitoes Like You and Not Me   - Melanie Tannenbaum – Psychology’s brilliant, beautiful, scientific messiness.