July 31, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - rare diseases, Marley parasite, math poetry, beginnings, self-citing bloggers, and more.

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- Nathalia Holt - The Story behind the Name: The Marley Parasite

- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica

- Christie Wilcox - Evolution: Out Of The Sea

- Scicurious - You want that? Well I want it, too! The neuroscience of mimetic desire

- Kelly Oakes - How most of the universe was lost

- Becky Crew - Hitchhiking jellyfish, gonad-loving parasites and the skeleton shrimp

- Cassie Rodenberg - History Says Praise Drugs, Addiction Sufferers Are Just Pretending

- John R. Platt - O’Reilly Animals Enlists Technology Community to Help Save Endangered Species from Extinction

- Hadas Shema - Self-citing bloggers: my research is the coolest thing ever (let me tell you all about it!)

- David Bressan - In the Beginning Was the Word

- S.E. Gould - The origin of breathing: how bacteria learnt to use oxygen

- Krystal D'Costa - Libraries and e-books

- John Horgan - Stanley Miller and the Quest to Understand Life’s Beginning

- Christina Agapakis - Dance of the Water Bear

- Carin Bondar - The Biomechanics of the Perfect Olympic Dive

- Jason G. Goldman - Science Writers Who Write About Goats

- Bora Zivkovic - The Scienceblogging Weekly (July 27th, 2012)

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Evelyn Lamb - Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer

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