June 30, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Friday - guide to conferences, chimp infanticide, psychopathy, exoplanets, picky eaters, and more.

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Back from travel, so catching up, with some delay, on posting the new Video of the Week.

- James Fallon - Taming the Psychopath Within

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- Pete Etchells - The PhD’s guide to academic conferences

- Jason G. Goldman - Chimpanzee Infanticide at the LA Zoo: Common Occurrence or Cause For Alarm?

- Bora Zivkovic - The Scienceblogging Weekly (June 29th, 2012)

- Caleb A. Scharf - Exo-cornucopia

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Book review: Suffering Succotash.

- Kate Clancy - Make Yourself Accountable

- Glendon Mellow - Science Outreach: Start Getting Artsy

- Rose Eveleth - Arts and crafts day on the Knorr

- Bora Zivkovic - Bora’s Picks (29 June 2012)

- David Wogan - “This is our Planet” – another amazing time-lapse video of Earth from the International Space Station

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: SCIENCE NEEDS YOU…to pee in an MRI

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