August 20, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - textbook Mendel, DNA storage, Martians, counterfeit drugs, beer science, anorexia and obesity, and more.

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- Ricki Lewis - Hidden Meanings in Our Genomes – And What To Do With Mendel

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- Christina Agapakis - Communicating with Aliens through DNA

- David Bressan - Meet the Martians

- Judy Stone - Counterfeit Drugs: a Deadly Problem

- Scicurious - Anorexia and Obesity: opposite sides of the reward coin?

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - The downside of politicians talking about science

- Kevin Zelnio - The Making of a Brewmaster, 200 MYA

- David Wogan - Living with the Nest #2 – the daily energy summary and why other appliances should act like the Nest

- DNLee - #DispathesDNLee: Tanzania from A to Z – ArchaeologyandWhat’s this in my Backyard? A skink

- Rebecca Priestley - Kermadecs Islands: Going home

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Catherine Owsik

- Joanne Manaster - The Blue-Authentic or Not, Still a Cool Video

- Bora Zivkovic - The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 18th, 2012)

- Glendon Mellow - Return of the Science-Art Scumble

- Ingrid Wickelgren - Minding Our Children’s Minds

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Larry Greenemeier - Four-Fingered Robot Can Replace Flashlight Batteries [Video]

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