January 14, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Wonderful Archaea, Math Knots, Smoking Stigma, Nuclear Weapons, Missed Chances, and more.

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- Bob Grumman - M@h*(pOet)?ica—Circles, Part 3

- Ashley Tucker - The Future of Computers

- Jennifer Frazer - Archaea Are More Wonderful Than You Know

- Evelyn Lamb - Knotty Fun at the Joint Math Meetings

- Scicurious - Don’t look back in anger: missed chances and aging

- Krystal D'Costa - Speakeasy Smoking? The Making of a Stigma

- Bora Zivkovic - Why the NYTimes “Green Blog” Is Now EssentialandWhy horses and slivovitz are essential for writing science onlineand‘Echo-chamber’ is just a derogatory term for ‘community’.

- Hannah Waters - City Trees Grow Faster, But Seedlings Struggle to Take Root

- S.E. Gould - Toxic Little Molecules

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - On the uselessness of nuclear weapons

- Darren Naish - Turkeys vs peafowl, the great debate

- Caleb A. Scharf - Lake Vostok Water Ice Has Been Obtained

- David Wogan - It’s time to accept the facts about climate change and move on

- Judy Stone - An Elegy for Aaron

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Susan Matthews

- Gary Stix - Is Delta-FosB the Obama Gene?

- Christie Wilcox - Gingrey is a bad doctor, says science

- Christina Agapakis - Data Streams and Energy Flows

- Maria Konnikova - When I was your age…: Or, what is it with kids these days?

- Carin Bondar - Today’s Evolutionary Success = Your Number of Twitter Followers. A Philosophical Espresso Shot by Jason Silva.

- Joanne Manaster - India Trip to Examine Issues in Child Survival: How Science and Engineering Help

- John Horgan - Why I Want My Students to Read Jared Diamond’s Latest Blockbuster

- DNLee - Invite to the PR Newswire’s African American press list

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