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Yes, the Food Week is over, but that does not stop our bloggers from writing fascinating posts on a whole range of other topics! But first check out the new Best of the Blogs video: - Erin C.

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Yes, the Food Week is over, but that does not stop our bloggers from writing fascinating posts on a whole range of other topics!

But first check out the new Best of the Blogs video:


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- Erin C. McKiernan - Simulating the spread of disease

 

- Rob Dunn - New Revelations about the Biodiversity of Belly Buttons

 

- Tim Lahey - The Dignity of a Porn Star

 

- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: The Landmine Snare

 

- Athena Andreadis - Floating Brains and Invasive Minds

 

- Scicurious - Vaccinating Cocaine Use Away

 

- Hilda Bastian - Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publicationandAcademic spin: How to dodge & weave past research exaggeration

 

- Scott Barry Kaufman - Why Education Needs More Radioactive Spiders

 

- Bora Zivkovic - “My Beloved…” and other dinosaurs.

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Greeks, Trojans, and a Temporary Companion for Uranus

 

- Ferris Jabr - Film Review: “GMO OMG” SRSLY? An #EpicFail in Exercising Our Right to Know

 

- Kate Clancy - New iPhone App Helps Parents Get the Right Vaccine Information

 

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Chemical and Engineering News celebrates 90 years: How chemistry has come a long way

 

- Darren Naish - 33% of the newts of my country

 

- S.E. Gould - Butterfly watch: four legs vs. six legs

 

- Sheril Kirshenbaum - Scientists Report Human-Induced Climate Change Influences Extreme Weather Events. Now What?

 

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Neuroscience Meets Magic: an educational feature

 

- Carin Bondar - Mosquito Preference and Erotic Vomit! Best of the Blogs for August is Live

 

- Glendon Mellow - Skeletal Drawing Has Never Looked So Good

 

- Katie McKissick - The Best of Nature Comics with Bird and Moon

 

- Kyle Hill - Waxbows: The Incredible Beauty of a Blown Out CandleandNerds and Words: Week 36

 

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: September 7, 2013

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Photoblogging: Colorful Mandrill

 

- Dina Fine Maron - Lasker Awards to Honor Neuroscience, Hearing and Philanthropy Work

 

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