June 5, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Monday - wheel spiders, #wsf12, war geology, sleep deprivation, ultra-marathons, rain-beaten mosquitos and more.

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- Becky Crew - It’s not funny anymore, Golden Wheel Spider

- Krystal D'Costa - What Other People Think About Us Matters—Here’s Why

- David Bressan - Accretionary Wedge #36:War Geology

- Scicurious - Sleep Deprived? Mind your dopamine.

- Dana Hunter - Oceans of Ore: How an Undersea Caldera Eruption Created Jerome, Arizona

- Princess Ojiaku - Madness Redefined at the World Science Festival

- Raphael Rosen - Dublin’s Science Gallery In New York

- Kali Staniec - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Palau, Above the Waterline

- Heather Davis, Michael Bustamante and Robert Rader - MSU Dinosaurs: introducing the Hatching Window Team

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Amy Shira Teitel

- DNLee - Hip Hop Education defined: Dr Chris Emdin speaks at TEDxNYED

- Darren Naish - Tet Zoo, the books

- Rachel Scheer - Meet the Science in Action Finalists – Part ThreeandMeet the Science in Action Finalists — Part FourandMeet the Science in Action Finalists, Part 5

- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome Running Ponies – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogsandOpen Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Katherine Harmon - Ultra Marathons Might Be Ultra Bad for your Heart

- Eric R. Olson - How the Mosquito Survives Collisions with Raindrops

- Larry Greenemeier - Engineers Use Reflected Light to Illuminate the Mystery of Ear Infections

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