January 9, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Hawking, eBooks, unconferences, methane and more.

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- Michelle Clement - The Research Works Act would deny taxpayers access to federally funded research.andPigs like video games too! Interspecies gaming to combat boredom, aggression in livestock.

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- Davide Castelvecchi - The Courage to Be Wrong: Reading the Biography of Stephen Hawking

- Scicurious - Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression: Miracle therapy or just another treatment?

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – the Unconference, the Community

- Krystal D'Costa - Confessions from a Reluctant e-Reader AdopterandRadio Interview with 1013 Main Street

- Darren Naish - The Second International Workshop on the Biology of Sauropod Dinosaurs (part II)

- Jim Perkins - Real professionals calibrate their computer screens. Do you?

- Kelly Oakes - How Brain Scans Can Help Astronomers Understand Stars

- David Archer - Much ado about methane

- Jennifer Ouellette - Hop, Skip and a Jump: Remembering Hedy Lamar

- Hannah Waters - The Best Things I’ve Read All Week (8 Jan 2012)

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: Downtown, Reflected

- DNLee - I’m a Post-doc at Oklahoma State. Go Pokes!

- David Biello - How Going with the Flow Helped Microbes Eat BP’s Oil Spill

- Gary Stix - Best Quote Ever on Pop Psychology Perils: Why We’re All Just Self-Delusion Machines

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