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- Ben Thomas - Meaning on the Brain: How Your Mind Organizes Reality

 

- Karthika Muthukumaraswamy - Climate Model Coverage: Far from Model Journalism


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- Ingmar Hoerr - Cancer Immunotherapy—Where Are We Going?

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Should We Expect Other Earth-like Planets At All?

 

- John R. Platt - Amazing Photos of Florida Panther and Cubs Bring a Bright Spot to a Deadly Year

 

- Darren Naish - The inaugural issue of The Journal of CryptozoologyandTet Zoo Christmassy wishes, 2012

 

- David Bressan - December 28, 1908: The Tsunami of MessinaandTsunami in the Geological RecordandArmageddon !!!andDecember 22, 1938: “Old Four Legs”

 

- Bora Zivkovic - What I learned about science blogging/writing this year

 

- John Horgan - Need a New Year’s Resolution? Choose to Believe in Free Will!

 

- Maureen McCarthy - Chimps in Uganda: Surprise Encounter

 

- Robert Fares - The Value of Short-term Energy Storage for Renewable Energy

 

- David Wogan - The Eagle Ford Shale Boom from Space

 

- Dana Hunter - Don’t Believe Everything You See on YouTube: Parícutin Edition

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Alyssa BotelhoandBora’s Picks (December 28th, 2012)

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - This Year’s Best Tips For Young And Early-Career Science Writers

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Can science help the picky eater? Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 1).andScientific knowledge, societal judgment, and the picky eater: Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 2).and“Are you going to raise the child picky?” Interview with Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic (part 3).andCompeting theories on the relation between Santa and the elves.

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Guest Post: How to Foil Mental Health Stigma

 

- Jason G. Goldman and Matt Soniak - The Best Animal Stories of 2012

 

- Psi Wavefunction - An algal sceneandGhost of a RotiferandFrivolous Photo Friday

 

- Carin Bondar - A Wild Sex Merry Christmas Marathon!andThe Wild Sex Merry Christmas Marathon Continues…andBeauty and Size: The Wild Sex Merry XXXMas Marathon Continues…andDancing Spiders and Cross Dressing Birds – The Wild Sex Merry XXXmas Marathon Continues.

 

- Alex Wild - Show us your best science/nature images of 2012!

 

- Scicurious - Friday Weird Science: slime molds take it to the highway!and2012 Book List!andA Sci Christmas Card.

 

- Christie Wilcox - Happy Holidays, from my tank to yours!

 

- Gary Stix - Explainer: Naming of Parts for an Instrument of Civilian Slaughter

 

- Katherine Harmon - Early Childhood Obesity Rates Might Be Slowing Nation-Wide

 

- Eric R. Olson - The Countdown, Episode 12 – Top 5 Space Stories of 2012!

 

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