July 29, 2011

Friday Network Highlights #4

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- Samuel McNerney - What makes us happy? Alexis de Tocqueville vs. Kanye West

- John Horgan - The "Slow Science" Movement Must Be Crushed!

- Darren Naish - Dear Telegraph: no, I did not say that about the Loch Ness monster

- Kevin Zelnio - Prescribing Gene Flow

- Krystal D'Costa - Interested in Science? Come to the #NYCSciTweetUp on Aug. 9th

- Bora Zivkovic - Blogs: face the conversation

- Charles Q. Choi - From The Writer's Desk: A Salon of the Mind and Visions: Rare and Precious

- Eric Michael Johnson - Does Rough-and-Tumble Play Teach Lessons About Fairness? "Why, Soitenly!"

- Robynne Boyd - Food: Knowing Where it's Growing

- Kelly Oakes - A stellar nursery in Orion

- Princess Ojiaku - Bjork's Biophilia

- The Dog Zombie - Guest Post! Learning from Domesticated Foxes

- Olivia Koski - Science Goes Guerilla in the U.S.

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