October 13, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - batteries, aliens, wooly bears, and more...

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Off to NASW/CASW Science Writers meeting tomorrow. Will catch up with you all tomorrow night. And for today - here it is:

- Glendon Mellow - Scratching into Canine Ancestry: Lori Dunn

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- Caleb A. Scharf - Alien worlds through iPad eyes

- Harold Johnson - Too Good to Be True: Sea Mammals, Plastic Pollution, and a Modern Chimera

- Davide Castelvecchi - The Periodic Table, and Why Batteries Don't Work the Way You Think

- Janet D. Stemwedel - DonorsChoose #scibloggers4students: donate and set my blogging agenda.

- Scicurious - Donors Choose Reminder!

- Bora Zivkovic - Cicadas, or how I Am Such A Scientist, or a demonstration of good editingand#scio11 – Experiments with the Imagination

- Anna Kuchment - Woolly Bear Olympics, Ball Galls, and more fall bug fun

- Eric Michael Johnson -- Sacrifice on the Serengeti: Life History, Genetic Relatedness, and the Evolution of Menopause

- Larry Greenemeier - A Buff New Twist on Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles

- Michael Moyer - Magazines Are iPads That Do Not Work [Video]

- Alex Wild - Thrifty Thursday: A Herd of Hoppers

- Christie Wilcox - My Interview With Brian Lehrer!

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor’s Selections: When Lightning Strikes and Skeletal Stories

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