February 7, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Coelacanths, Lake Vostok, neuronal transplants, #scio12, San Diego Demonoid, and more....

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Welcome back from the weekend. Check out the new Image of the Week first! Then see what the bloggers have published lately:

- Lucas Brouwers - Coelacanths are not living fossils. Like the rest of us, they evolve

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- Caleb A. Scharf - Astrobiology: We are the AliensandLake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years

- Scicurious - Neuronal transplants for treatment of obesity

- Darren Naish - “San Diego Demonoid”: you mean that dead opossum?

- Kaitlin Vandemark - Undergraduate Adventures with the Thermally Responsive Nanoparticles

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – thoughts about present and future

- Janet D. Stemwedel - My story from the ScienceOnline 2012 banquet.

- Carin Bondar - Monday Music Video: Klebsiella, Salmonella, Legionella (ella, ella, ella)

- Glendon Mellow - Willy Chyr’s Neuroplastic Dreams – pop!

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: Overbaked Sunset

- Melissa C. Lott - NREL’s Clean Energy Development Map

- John Horgan - Let’s Ban Research That Makes the Bird-Flu Virus and Other Pathogens Deadlier

- Gary Stix - Ethical Questions Surround ‘Electrical Thinking Cap’ that Improves Mental Functions

- Katherine Harmon - Anthrax Toxicity Depends on Human GeneticsandBaby-Led Weaning Leads to Leaner Kids

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