September 5, 2011

Labor Day Weekend at #SciAmBlogs

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After the fantastic time at Science Online London, I am now in Belgrade, Serbia this week. More pleasure than work, but I can still pay some attention to what is going on at the blogs.

We have a new Image Of The Week on the right side-bar. Check it out. And a bunch of new weekend (and Labor Day in the US) posts on the blog network:

- Bora Zivkovic - BIO101 – From One Cell To Two: Cell Division and DNA Replication

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- Christina Agapakis - 100 Years of Synthetic Biology

- Darren Naish - Obscure, extravagant tropical crows

- Davide Castelvecchi - Galactic Challenge, Part II: The Richard Feynman Files

- David Bressan - September 4, 1618: The landslide of Plurs

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: LA at Night [video]

- Scicurious - Comment threads!

- Harold Johnson - Cigarette butts to the left, fishing rope to the right, plastic everywhere: what I found on the beach over a year.

- Krystal D'Costa - The Truth in Pictures: Disasters in the Digital Age

- Joanne Manaster - Monday Music Video

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2011 – submissions so far

- Katrina Edwards - North Pond: Calm before the storm

- Melissa C. Lott - Population and Purpose: Where we use electricity

- S.E. Gould - MolBio carnival #14!

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