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ScienceOnline2012 is over. Many bloggers (including 28 SciAm bloggers and blogging staff) were there. When meeting face-to-face, bloggers want to talk to each other rather than write blog posts or read blogs (they are likely to write their impressions of the meeting later). So now is the time to slowly get back to the online world again, and to check out what our colleagues have written while we were absent.

Last week, we introduced the new Video of the Week, and earlier today we put up the new Image of the Week - check them both. And now to see what did the rest of the network write in our absence:

- Cheryl Murphy - Hey, Did You Hear? ...Why We Don’t Listen


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- Ilana Yurkiewicz - When Does a Medical Student Overstep Her Boundaries?

 

- Sam McNerney - The Science of the New Musician: How N.Y.U. Professor Gary Marcus Became a Guitar Hero

 

- David S. Richard - The Canary in the Himalayas

 

- Agustín Fuentes - Get Over It: Men and Women Are from the Same Planet

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Something funny for you while I am busy at #scio12

 

- Dr. Michael S. Rosenberg - What Happens if We Call for a Boycott and No One Shows Up?

 

- Krystal D'Costa - It Takes a (Virtual) VillageandEditor’s Selections: More on Syphilis, Education in India, and Classifying Things in ArchaeologyandThe Animal Connection: Why Do We Keep Pets?andThe End of the Time of Earth: Why Does the Leap Second Matter?

 

- James Byrne - And yet more excercise…

 

- Scicurious - Hebephilia is more than a “measurable penile response”andSex, Gender, and Controversy, a #scio12 WRAPUP

 

- Scott Huler - The Wrong Time for This

 

- Melissa C. Lott and Robynne Boyd - No New Uranium Mines Near Grand Canyon

 

- Kate Clancy - Interrogating Claims about Natural Sexual Behavior: More on Deep Thinking Hebephile

 

- Alex Wild - In response to SOPA/PIPA, I am releasing some of my photographs to the public domain.andThrifty Thursday: the best camera is the one you have with youandLove Life: California Academy of Sciences Photo Competition

 

- Glendon Mellow - Copyright, Darwin, SOPA and ScienceOnline2012andScienceOnline2012 Art Show!

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Science Writing at Johns Hopkins

 

- Darren Naish - STOP ‘feeding’ the ducksandHappy Birthday Tetrapod Zoology: SIX YEARS of blogging

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Huffington Post Science – interview with Cara Santa Maria

 

- John R. Platt - Nearly Extinct Primate Rediscovered in Borneo [Video]andCan Stem Cells Help Save Snow Leopards from Extinction?

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our Universe

 

- Joanne Manaster - Video Making Workshop 101

 

- Jesse Bering - Morality Stinks (Especially If You’re Gay)and“Dear Jesse, I’m an atheistic porn addict.”

 

- Mariette DiChristina - The Scientist Corps: 1,000 Scientists in 1,000 Days

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Sharks With FriendsandSunday Photoblogging: #scio12 Sunrise

 

- S.E. Gould - Half-plant, half-predator, all-weird

 

- John Horgan - A Century After Scott and Amundsen, Antarctic Still Beckons

 

- David Bressan - “Forensic” Seismology

 

- Anna Kuchment - Museum Tour: Putting Scientists On Display

 

- John Matson - Largest Solar Storm Since 2005 to Hit Earth Tuesday

 

- Gary Stix - A New Generation Already Knows How to Love the Bomb

 

- Michael Moyer - What’s Next in the SOPA Fight?

 

- Katherine Harmon - How Exercise Might Help Our Cells Help UsandHow Exercise Might Help Our Cells Help UsandSex Is Safe for Many with Heart Disease, Report Says

 

- Kate Wong - In Bowerbird Romance, Master Illusionists Get the Girls [VIDEO]

 

- Fred Guterl - Are Controls on Bird Flu Research a Good Idea?

 

- Robin Lloyd - Forensic Anthropology Gives Voice to Unidentified Remains

 

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