March 12, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Fukushima anniversary, runner's high, navigating ants, Borneo spiders, and more

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We skipped last week due to my travel, but here we are back again in the normal routine - Monday, time for the brand new Image of the Week.

- David Bressan - Namazu the EarthshakerandA short History of Earthquakes in Japan

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- Jessica Morrison - 1 Year Later, What Does Fukushima Mean for Nuclear Research?

- Melissa C. Lott - Fukushima – U.S. Responds to Lessons Learned

- Scicurious - It hurts so good: the runner’s high

- Jason G. Goldman - Sensing Magnets: Navigation in Desert AntsandSunday Photoblogging: Full Moon

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Introduction

- S.E. Gould - Deadly cocktails for killing bacteria

- Alex Wild - Transform Your iPhone Into a Microscope: Just Add Water

- John Horgan - Why I Won’t Get a Colonoscopy

- Darren Naish - Because the world belongs to petrels (petrels part I)

- Jennifer Ouellette - L is for LIDAR

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Matthew Hirschey

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: The Sieve

- Bora Zivkovic - New Expeditions field series – Jumping Spiders of BorneoandOpen Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Gary Stix - Imagen del Dia: Wasp Makes Prey of a Tarantula

- Katherine Harmon - Circumcision Cuts Prostate Cancer RiskandRed Meat Eating Increases Risk of Early Death

- Larry Greenemeier - Reporters Without Borders Releases Its 2012 “Internet Enemies” List

- Michael Moyer - Brain Machine Interfaces in Fact and Fiction

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