April 22, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Earth Day, Fred Flintstone, Dinosaurs' exaggerated structures, Serial Creators, Car Ownership, and more.

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- Kyle Hill - The Physics of Fred Flintstone’s Flaming Feet

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- Larry Brilliant and William Foege - Lessons from Smallpox Guide Polio Endgame

- Ben Thomas - Oliver Sacks Shares Tales of Musical Hallucinations

- Darren Naish - Dinosaurs and their ‘exaggerated structures’: species recognition aids, or sexual display devices?

- Scicurious - To Calm a Rat with Tickling

- Scott Barry Kaufman - Profiling Serial Creators

- Krystal D'Costa - Choice, Control, Freedom and Car Ownership

- Christina Agapakis - The Structure of Industrial Revolutions

- Jennifer Ouellette - An-Ti-Ci-Pa-Tion: The Physics of Dripping HoneyandPhysics Week in Review: April 20, 2013

- Becky Crew - Bluebelly Night Wanderer Found in Brazilian Blackwater

- Lucas Brouwers - How genetic plunder transformed a microbe into a pink, salt-loving scavenger

- Samuel Jones - Bush-crow diaries: The mystery of the Abyssinian Pie

- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: Uganda’s Other Great Apes

- Psi Wavefunction - Alien-looking termite gut denizens at the SF Exploratorium!

- David Bressan - Mother Earth

- Dana Hunter - Happy Earth Day!

- John R. Platt - When Did the Barbary Lion Really Go Extinct?andPygmy Elephants, Asiatic Lions and Other Links from the Brink

- Hadas Shema - The Leiden University Ranking

- S.E. Gould - Lab Rat has a baby on board!

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Neuroscience in Fiction: “Still Alice”, by Lisa Genova

- Alex Wild - With depth of field, more is not always better

- Mark Fischetti - Earth Day Begs the Question about the Future of Energy

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