August 16, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Friday – White House solar panels, Olinguito, Pecan Truffle, Elysium, no garbage, and more.

- Karissa Milbury – Changing the cancer landscape - Jag Bhalla – Is Economics More Like History Than Physics? - Becky Crew – The Olinguito: A New Species That Looks House Cat Crossed With a Teddy Bear - Jennifer Frazer – American Pecan Truffle May Be Coming to a Plate Near You, [...]

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- Karissa Milbury - Changing the cancer landscape

- Jag Bhalla - Is Economics More Like History Than Physics?

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- Becky Crew - The Olinguito: A New Species That Looks House Cat Crossed With a Teddy Bear

- Jennifer Frazer - American Pecan Truffle May Be Coming to a Plate Near You, By Way of Extremely Cute Courier

- Dana Hunter - Dana’s Super-Awesome Mount St. Helens Field Trip Guide I: Hoffstadt or Bust

- Robynne Boyd - Imagine There’s No Garbage. I Wonder If I Can.

- Melissa C. Lott - Solar at the White House – againandPhoto Friday: (Boulder) Hoover Dam – standing firm since 1936

- John R. Platt - Rare Monkey Population up 50 Percent in China and Tibet

- Kyle Hill - How Elysium is a Carnival Ride, and Why its Atmosphere is a Bucket of Water

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Belief in multiple universes requires exceptional vision. So does belief in telepathy.

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Physics Hasn’t Looked This Hot Since The Big Bang

- Sam Illingworth - Arctic Methane: Mr Blue Sky

- Ingrid Wickelgren - The Making of a Mathematical Mind: 1 Step at a Time

- John Mighton - How to Teach Long Division through Guided Discovery

- Darren Naish - Extinction: Not the End of the World at London’s Natural History Museum

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - The Color of Pain

- DNLee - #FieldworkFriday: Field Research Preparations – Bricks and traps

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (16 August 2013)

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: Gonads and stress, gonads and stress, gonads and stress….

- Christine Gorman - Fruit Flies Aid Efforts to Develop Personalized Cancer Treatments

- David Biello - More Solar Panels at the White House

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