July 25, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Thursday – eye-tracking peacocks, sleep under full moon, Pacific Rim science, Drunk Science, and more.

Watch the newest Video of the Week! - Robin Anne Smith – Eye-tracking reveals what’s hot, what’s not from the peahen’s point of view - Bora Zivkovic – Good Night, Moon!

By Bora Zivkovic

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- Robin Anne Smith - Eye-tracking reveals what’s hot, what’s not from the peahen’s point of view

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- Bora Zivkovic - Good Night, Moon! Now go away so I can sleep.

- Darren Naish - The Tet Zoo Guide to Pacific Rim

- Kyle Hill - Pacific Rim Physics (Part 2): In a Nuclear Explosion Bubble at the Bottom of the Ocean

- Carin Bondar - Paging the Department of the Glaringly Obvious: Alligators Will Bite Your Head Off

- Dana Hunter - So What’s a Coastal Bluff Got To Do With Mount St. Helens?

- Caleb A. Scharf - Summer Astrobiology Roundup #2: Possible ‘Comet Of The Century’ Starts Warming Up

- Charles Q. Choi - From The Writer’s Desk: Drunk Science

- Judy Stone - uBiome: Ethical Lapse or Not?

- DNLee - Announcing the National Science & Technology News Service – a STEM Media Contact List for Diverse audience News Organizations

- Eric R. Olson - Black Hole Devours Cosmic Cloud, and More – The Countdown, Episode 27

- Christine Gorman - Has Mariusz Ratajczak Found the Holy Grail of Stem Cells?

- John Matson - This Video Montage of Saturn’s Rings and Moons Is Simply Gorgeous

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