August 27, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - calories, math poetry, poker, monogamous voles, Neil Armstrong, happy number, Arctic sea ice, and more.

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- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica: Summerthings

- Jennifer Ouellette - Shiny! On the Iridescence of SquidandKnowing When To Fold ‘Em: The Science of Poker

- Scicurious - Back off, stranger, that’s my mate! The role of kappa opioid receptors

- John Horgan - As We Say Goodbye to Neil Armstrong, Should We Also Let Go of Our Space Fantasies?

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - When should medicine talk about race?

- S.E. Gould - Tiny RNA fragments control bacterial infections

- Darren Naish - Dyke & Kaiser’s Living Dinosaurs: the Evolutionary History of Modern Birds

- Melissa Gaskill - Counting Fish: well, thanks Isaac, no counting fish this week

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Hey, how’d they get those men on Mars?

- Bora Zivkovic - Eight is eternityandIt is here!andThe Scienceblogging Weekly (August 26th, 2012)

- Bora Zivkovic - Bora’s Picks (August 25th, 2012)

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Evelyn Lamb - Why 167 Is a Happy Number—Besides Being Scientific American’s Age

- Katherine Harmon - Pediatricians Group Praises Benefits of Circumcision for Male Infants

- David Biello - Arctic Sea Ice Reaches New Low

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