May 31, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Friday - mass extinction, political morality, colonoscopic memory, telescope octopus, Desmids, colon replica, and more.

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- Ramez Naam - Can Humans Survive Mass Extinction?

- Jag Bhalla - Colonoscopies Clarify Inner Workings of Minds

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- Kate Clancy - Feedback Loops: The Biology and Culture of Premenstrual Experience

- Julie Hecht - Do Dogs Understand Our Words? The Dogs Weigh In

- Kyle Hill - How Tardigrades Saved The Enterprise

- Evelyn Lamb - My Head Is Not a Hairy Ball

- Katherine Harmon - Unusual Offshore Octopods: Telescope Octopus Has Totally Tubular Eyes

- Jennifer Frazer - Wonderful Things: Desmids, Microscopic Plants of Unusual Beauty and Oddball Behavior

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Reluctance to act on suspicions about fellow scientists: inside the frauds of Diederik Stapel (part 4).

- Lauren Stoneburner - Is the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Doing Enough?

- Mary Karmelek - 2 Ships Passing in the Fog: 35 Years before the Titanic, Uneasy Sailing on the White Star Line

- Glendon Mellow - Forget Skeuomorphic Illustration

- Adam Waytz - A Different Look at the Political Divide on Morality

- Melissa C. Lott - How to achieve a 20% efficiency increase for $50

- Bora Zivkovic - Bora’s Picks (May 31st, 2013)

- Jason G. Goldman - The Best Animal Engineers

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science! The Concrete Enema

- Eric R. Olson - A Galactic Collision, and More - The Countdown, Episode 23

- David Biello - Reaction in Action: Before and After Pictures at the Atomic Level

- Arielle Duhaime-Ross - Gut Reaction: Human Colon Replica Demonstrates How E. coli Contaminates Groundwater

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