February 13, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - bacterial size, Black History Month in STEM, Darwin Day, Adele's voice, NASA funding, and more.

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- DNLee - Black History Month: Celebrating Blacks in Science, Promoting Diversity in STEMandA Hip Hop Maven Mourns – Whitney Houston dead at age 48andCharles Henry Turner, Animal Behavior Scientist

- S.E. Gould - How the TB bacteria bursts your cells

- David Bressan - Darwin the Geologist

- Christie Wilcox - Darwin’s Degenerates – Evolution’s Finest

- Jason G. Goldman - Chimpanzees Help, But Only When AskedandSunday Photoblogging: Vertical Panorama

- Scicurious - Minding your Interactions to Mind your Inflammation

- Darren Naish - Williams and Lang’s Australian Big Cats: do pumas, giant feral cats and mystery marsupials stalk the Australian outback?

- Kate Clancy - There Will Be Blood: Follow Up to Skeptically Speaking Podcast

- Caleb A. Scharf - Walk Tall, but Please Tread Softly, SpaceX

- John Horgan - Education Isn’t Helping Americans Overcome Deepening Inequality

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Science-Art Interviews: Heather Knight

- Melissa C. Lott - U.S. Natural Gas – Spot Price Low, Inventory High

- Amy Maxmen - The Illegal Teeny Turtle Trade

- Bora Zivkovic - Weekly Highlights #15 – UC-Santa Cruz students

- John Matson - Obama Administration Proposes Big Cuts to NASA’s Mars Programs

- Sarah Fecht - After Throat Surgery, British Singer Adele Makes A Comeback at the Grammys

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