June 17, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Monday - health insurance, elephant shrews, Bloomsday, night noise, optogenetics, fathers, and more.

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- Dorian Rolston - Night Noise: What a Sleeping Brain Hears

- Gary Stix - Dragonflies with Backpacks May Advance the Science of Prey Capture

- Scicurious - OCD and Optogenetics: Lighting the brain up to shut a behavior down

- Kelly Oakes - Good morning Gliese 526, the Earth says hello

- Melanie Tannenbaum - Happy Father’s Day! The Psychology of Papas.

- Julie Hecht - Make sense of scents: How to make your dog happy

- Caleb A. Scharf - Cosmic Cartography: Here Is Your (Local) Universe

- Scott Barry Kaufman - How Do Artists Differ From Bank Officers?

- Darren Naish - A brief history of sengis, or elephant shrews

- Hannah Waters - What The Ruling on Gene Patenting Means

- John Horgan - A Bloomsday Appreciation of Ulysses by James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever

- David Wogan - “My judgment is based on numbers, on data, and not on consensus”

- Melissa C. Lott - Technically speaking – 10% of world crude, 32% of natural gas are sitting in shale

- Alex Wild - Six tips for better pollinator photographs

- Carin Bondar - More Than Honey: A Stunning Documentary on the Worldwide Demise of Bees

- Kyle Hill - The Transit of the ISS EnterpriseandNerds and Words: Week 24

- Bora Zivkovic - Quick programming note – #SciFoo and #WCSJ2013/#sci4helsandScienceOnline Events Update

- John R. Platt - Diseased Tigers, Wounded Rhinos and Other Links from the Brink

- Jennifer Ouellette - Physics Week in Review: June 15, 2013

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