July 27, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Friday - Gene duplication, moss sex, global food, origin of scientific journals, genetically engineered athletes, and more.

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- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Gene duplication frees up enzymes for molecular promiscuity

- Jennifer Frazer - How Mosses Have Sex in Spite of Their Swimming-Challenged Sperm

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- Marianne de Nazareth - Can we feed 9 billion people by 2050 or will we starve?

- Dana Hunter - Beginnings: Where will you begin?

- Bonnie Swoger - The (mostly true) origins of the scientific journal

- Richa Malhotra - Interview with Thomas Levenson

- John Horgan - Should Fans Fret that Olympians Are Fiddling With Their Genes?

- Joanne Manaster - The Worlds of Viral Video

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: Think you can go long? Check out the walking stick!

- Philip Yam - Introducing Our New Video Series: The Countdown

- David Biello - Deny This: Contested Himalayan Glaciers Really Are Melting and Doing So at a Rapid Pace, Kind of Like Climate Change

- Katherine Harmon - How Computers Could Reduce the Spread of HIV

- John Matson - Re-Live The Tevatron’s Demise, or Just Hear Some Fermilab Rap from 1992 [Video]

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