June 19, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - hibernating primates, saltwater crocodiles, vaginal bacteria, ovulation music, charismatic megaparticles, and more.

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- Matt Shipman - Why Scientists Should Publicize Their Findings – For Purely Selfish Reasons

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- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Why Mark Regnerus’ study shouldn’t matter, even if it were the most scientifically robust study in the world

- S.E. Gould - How bacteria in the vagina change during pregnancy

- Scicurious - Loving some complex melodies? You could be ovulating! Or not.

- David Ginsburg - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: “Think Like a Brittle Star”

- Rose Eveleth - Steaming North: how the scientists are trying to find planktonandThe superstar sensor: what is a CTD?

- Ferris Jabr - The Mysterious Brain of the Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur, the World’s Only Hibernating Primate

- George Musser - Charismatic Megaparticles Might Hint at Dark Matter, and Much Besides

- Darren Naish - The Saltwater crocodile, and all that it implies (crocodiles part III)

- Kalliopi Monoyios - A Conference of Scientific Communicators

- Jennifer Ouellette - Tell Me No Lies

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Taylor Kubota

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- DNLee - Connecting to STEM Diversity on Twitter

- Larry Greenemeier - Captain of Crunch: U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Watchdog Boasts Fastest Supercomputer in the West–or Anywhere Else, for That Matter

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