July 11, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - chocolate ribosome cake, art+science, eavesdropping lemurs, blue exoplanet, tail-slapping shark, and more.

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- John Maeda - Artists and Scientists: More Alike than Different

- Jason G. Goldman - Eavesdropping Lemurs Tune Into the Forest Soundtrack to Survive

- Kelly Oakes - Exoplanet colour confirmed for first time: it’s blue, but not pale — and nothing like Earth

- Becky Crew - Thresher sharks tail-slap sardines into oblivion

- Kyle Hill - Why The Flash is the Only Human Living In the Present

- Dana Hunter - Baked Geology: Shelli’s Rainbow Fault Cake

- Evelyn Lamb - Here a Henge, There a Henge: Astronomy Fun on a Street Near You

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Where’s the chemistry lobby? On why we need a National Center for Chemical Education

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Want good reasons to be a Creationist? You won’t find them here.

- Carin Bondar - Competitive Eating, Online Dating, PsychoPhysics and More! Best of the Blogs for June is Live

- Dina Fine Maron - Toxic burn pits at U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan threaten health

- Christopher Crockett - Next Mars Rover Will Seek Out Signs of Past Life

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