September 28, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Friday - on becoming a homeless addict, baking bread, spilling coffee, elephant psychology, last Neanderthal song, small science, and more.

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I will try to go on vacation next week, keep myself offline if I can. I will not do evening linkfests. I will edit and pre-schedule Guest Blog posts in advance, and probably pop in briefly to post Expeditions posts, Image of the Week and Video of the Week. Who knows, I may write a blog post of my own, just for fun. Be nice to bloggers in their comment threads while I'm gone!

- Cassie Rodenberg - How an Addict Becomes Homeless

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- Emily Buehler - Enzymes: the little molecules that bake bread

- Jason G. Goldman - The WEIRD Psychology of Elephants

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - In praise of Small (and Cheap) Science

- Bonnie Swoger - A small college cancels ACS journal subscriptions: Here’s why this matters

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Why does lab safety look different to chemists in academia and chemists in industry?

- Scicurious - IgNobel Prize Winner in Fluid Dynamics: ARGH! I spilled my coffee in the hall again!

- Kelly Oakes - Pale blue dot or not? What the colour of alien worlds can tell us

- Gary Stix - A Neurodegenerative Disease Improves Facets of Cognition

- John Horgan - Darwinian Giant Robert Trivers Riffs on Toddler Tantrums, Homophobic Denial and Other Lies

- Michael R. Duffey - Hot Bots: How Arduino Teaches Kids The Science Behind Modern Gizmos

- Alex Wild - To make money from science photographs, specialize

- Joanne Manaster - Macrophages, Tuberculosis and Granulomas: A Video Tutorial

- Glendon Mellow - SciArt of the Day: Eye Heart Yew

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (28 September 2012)

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – last call for submissions!

- Kate Wong - Ode to the Last Neandertal [Video]

- Fred Guterl - Best Countries in Science: SA’s Global Science Scorecard

- Michael Moyer - Watch the Most Amazing Lego Contraption Ever [Video]

- Christine Gorman - How Would Fish Vote in the 2012 Election?

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