March 21, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - Dog Spies, Girl Scouts, Pet Trade, Moral Paradox, Tiniest Microbe, Human-Teeth Fish, Mimic Octopus, and more.

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- Stephanie Swift - Making Pretty, Meaty, Friendly Animals

- Julie Hecht - Spying on Dogs: Intrigue, drama and science

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- Jennifer Ouellette - Walking the Planck: Our Lopsided Universe

- Bonnie Swoger - On Girl Scouts, glaciers, and great women

- Becky Crew - The sheepshead fish has human teeth, but it’s okay because it won’t give you a psychedelic crisis

- Jennifer Frazer - What The World’s Tiniest Free-Living Microbe Is Doing In You

- Katherine Harmon - Mimic Octopus Makes Home on Great Barrier Reef

- John R. Platt - Illegal Pet Trade Wiping Out Yellow-Crested Cockatoos

- Dana Hunter - On The Necessity of GeologyandDanger Zone! The New Madrid Seismic Zone

- DNLee - Tanzania Dreaming: Preparing for #DispatchesDNLee 2013

- Adam Waytz - A moral paradox

- Bora Zivkovic - Welcome Dog Spies – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

- Larry Greenemeier - Will Next-Generation Mars Rovers Have C-Shaped Legs?

- Christine Gorman - Why Total Reporting of Genetic Results Is a Bad Idea

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