August 29, 2011

After the windy, rainy weekend...at the #SciAmBlogs

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From the network, weekend and Monday combined:

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- Bora Zivkovic - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)andBIO101: Cell-Cell Interactions

- David Bressan - August 27, 1883: Krakatoa

- Gozde Zorlu - The fight against dengue fever continues

- John Horgan - Is It Wrong to Link Hurricane Irene to Global Warming?

- David Wogan - Hurricane Irene is a reminder that adapting to climate change is smart policy, regardless of the climate change part

- Davide Castelvecchi - A Galactic Challenge: How Would You Teach Left from Right to an Alien Civilization?

- Alex Wild - Creative Commons Is Not Public Domain

- Glendon Mellow - Science-Art Scumble #23

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: USC From Behind A Lens

- Darren Naish - Dead animals at the roadside

- Ariel Waldman - Hacking science: the intersection of web geeks and science geeks

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2011 – submissions so far

- Melissa C. Lott - The U.S. Electric Grid vs. Extreme Weather

- Carin Bondar - Introducing Monday Music Videos at PsiVid…

- Rachel Nuwer - Plumes and Pathogens: Human fascination with birds can jeopardize our health

- Janet D. Stemwedel - What about Dalibor Sames? The Bengü Sezen fraud and the responsibilities of the PI in the training of new scientists.

- Joseph Milton - Why not eat insects? I’ll give you a couple of reasons

- Michelle Clement - Housekeeping: Growing pains!

- DNLee - Hip Hop Evolution Files: Defining Polyandry

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