September 2, 2011

Friday Festival at #SciAmBlogs

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I am having fun at Science Online London. But I found some time to check what the bloggers were up to today. You should, too:

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- Matthew Francis - What We Know About Black Holes

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: Science is HARD, you guys!

- Hannah Waters - On vaccines: scientists can’t stop doing science because of crazy people

- David Bressan - September 2, 1806: The landslide of Goldau

- Scott Huler - Storm Center: New Tools for the Postmortem

- Jennifer Frazer - A New Weapon in the War on Frog Chytrids: Water Fleas

- Katrina Edwards - North Pond: Searching for Intraterrestrial Life

- Mary Karmelek - After 136 Years of Overcrowding, Straphangers Still Look for Relief

- Kate Clancy - Around the web, data entry edition

- Eric Michael Johnson - Male Chauvinist Chimps or the Meat Market of Public Opinion?

- Maria Konnikova - Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Imagination

- David Biello - Smog Levels to Remain Higher than Scientists Suggest Safe for Public Health

- John Horgan - Why Screening Teens for Mental Illness Is a Terrible Idea

- George Musser - Do Physicists Make the World a Better Place?

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