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- Ian Branam - Escape online from food deserts

 

- Naim Alkhouri - “Breathprints” Pinpoint Potential Obesity-Related Complications in Children

 

- Tony Rothman - Apocalypsis du Jour, Amnesia Forever!

 

- Felicity Muth - Why do dogs yawn when they see sleepy humans?

 

- Psi Wavefunction - Giardia sucks! An anatomy of a sucker.

 

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- Becky Crew - Rare Asiatic Golden Cats are World-First Test Tube Babies

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Five Energy Companies Disrupting the Status Quo

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Why a Heroin Vaccine Isn’t a Fix-ItandHunts Point Addiction Archives

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Scientific training and the Kobayashi Maru: inside the frauds of Diederik Stapel (part 3).

 

- Christina Agapakis - Bacterial Encounters at the Salton Sea

 

- Sarah Wood - The Relationship Between the Economy and Tourism on Catalina Island

 

- David Ginsburg - Guam and Palau 2013: New Recruits and New Experiences

 

- Julie Hecht - You’re invited to a canine science conference

 

- Joanne Manaster - EXPOSED: The Global Epidemic of TB

 

- Carin Bondar - Science Studio – A Celebration of Online Audio and Video

 

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Learn Visual Communication from the SciComm Pros

 

- Bora Zivkovic - #sci4hels – What makes one a “killer” (science) journalist of the future?andWhat’s new at ScienceOnline?

 

- John R. Platt - Lion Meat Tacos (You Read That Right) Are the Latest Threat to ConservationandA Monkey with Human Eyes and Other Links from the Brink

 

- Hannah Waters - The Swan Song of the Cicadas

 

- Katherine Harmon - Unusual Offshore Octopods: Argonaut Octopus Builds a “Shell” for Swimming [Video]

 

- George Musser - What Would It Mean for Time to Come to an End? [Video]

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - Review of The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - NeuroSCIence in FIction: Kill DecisionandFat Tuesday: Sugar, obesity and the big C

 

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Non-target capture Marsh Mongoose

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: May 25, 2013

 

- Kyle Hill - Science in Aggregate: Week 21

 

- Mark Fischetti - New Orleans Protection Plan Nearly Identical to Scientific American’s 2006 Plan

 

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