October 17, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Girlybits 101, tree kangaroos, and that seductive look...

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Happy Monday. See what great stuff the bloggers posted over the weekend and today:

- Davide Castelvecchi - On the Physics Nobels, The Atlantic Gets Dark Energy All Wrongand‘We Hate Math,’ Say 4 in 10 — a Majority of Americans

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- Bora Zivkovic - BIO101 – Origin of Biological Diversityand#scio11 – Visual Storytelling

- Michelle Clement - Girlybits 101, now with fewer scary parts!

- S.E. Gould - Global Handwashing Day – why you probably have poo on your phone.

- Lucas Brouwers - Reports of the Black Death’s death have been greatly exaggerated

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: Wormhole

- Alex Wild - Is Google+ better for photographers?

- David Wogan - Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

- Katrina Edwards - North Pond: Seafloor laboratory installed

- Robin Lloyd - Drug-Resistant Staph Infections in Europe Could Mark Start of a New Epidemic

- Kate Clancy - Ladybusiness justice, and why Plan B shouldn’t be your only birth control

- Kalliopi Monoyios - The iPad as a Digital Sketchbook: The Hunt for a Stylus

- Darren Naish - The ‘Tree-Kangaroos Come First’ hypothesis

- Joanne Manaster - Monday Music Video: 80s Hair Band Sings About Cellular Impedance

- Cheryl Murphy - Learning The Look of Love: That Sly ‘Come Hither’ Stare

- Christina Agapakis - Making Waves

- Kelly Oakes - Light from starburst galaxies makes the best cosmic disinfectant

- John Horgan - Steven Chu Defends Federal Research Against Know-Nothing Critics

- Jennifer Ouellette - What Woody Woodpecker Can Teach Us About Football

- Sarah Fecht - D.C. Power Play: Students Vie to Build Affordable, Energy Self-Sufficient Homes in U.S. Solar Decathlon [Video]

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