October 18, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - countertransference, rhino poaching, dangerous optimism, cancer angst, UV sterilization, T.rex proteins, and more.

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- Hilda Bastian - #NIHMiM12 – The spreading shadow of cancer angst: 3 things you need to know to meet it rationally

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- Kyle Hill - Dangerous Optimism: Risk, Bias and Smoking

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - When a patient encounter hits too close to home

- Dana Hunter - The Cataclysm: “One of the Most Dramatic Mass-Movement Events of Historic Time”

- John R. Platt - Rhino Poaching: An Extinction Crisis

- Carin Bondar - Saving Rhino Phila – A Genre-Busting Documentary on the Massacre of a Species

- Christina Agapakis - The Urine Wheel

- Alex Wild - Thrifty Thursday: an iPhone looks at the fall foliage

- Bora Zivkovic - Announcing the Editor of Open Laboratory 2013

- Ingrid Wickelgren - How Do You Spot A Genius?

- Jason G. Goldman - It’s Time For Donors Choose

- Eric R. Olson - The Countdown, Episode 7 – Planet Centauri, Endeavour’s L.A. Road Trip, DayGlo Comet, Moon Mystery Modeled, A Not-Quite Space Jump

- John Matson - Bay Area Fireball Caught on Tape [Video]

- Katherine Harmon - Can a Burst of UV Bust Hospital-Borne Infections?

- Kate Wong - Molecular Analysis Supports Controversial Claim for Dinosaur Cells

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