September 12, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Thursday – IgNobels, tech in classrooms, purple centipedes, ketamine, Voyager, obscure trigonometry, and more.

- Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters – Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect - Anna Kuchment – Teachers and App Designers Join Forces - Kyle Hill – Excerpts From The Mad Scientist’s Handbook: So You’re Ready to Vaporize a Human - John R.

By Bora Zivkovic

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- Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters - Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect

- Anna Kuchment - Teachers and App Designers Join Forces

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- Kyle Hill - Excerpts From The Mad Scientist’s Handbook: So You’re Ready to Vaporize a Human

- John R. Platt - Viper Collectors Nearly Wiped Out This Rare Turkish Snake; Saint Louis Zoo Helps to Save It

- DNLee - My IDP and Me: Determining what I want to be when I grow up.

- Becky Crew - Photographer Nicky Bay’s Purple Centipedes and Singapore Blues

- Gary Stix - Is Ketamine Right for You? Off-Label Prescriptions for Depression Pick Up in Small Clinics, [Part 2]

- Scicurious - On my way to the IgNobel Prizes!!!!andLIVE: The 2013 IgNobel Prizes!!!andIgNobels 2013! And the Winners Are…andEverytime you say “the pipeline”, I feel like a drip

- Evelyn Lamb - 10 Secret Trig Functions Your Math Teachers Never Taught You

- Caleb A. Scharf - Voyager Has Entered The Interstellar Medium

- Glendon Mellow - Ambient Plagues Unleashed

- Melissa C. Lott - UN says that if food waste was a country, it’d be the #3 global greenhouse gas emitter

- David Wogan - “Consistent With Our Carbon Budgets”andNorth Dakota flared off $1 billion worth of natural gas last year

- Bora Zivkovic - Updates, Events and Miscellanea

- Katherine Harmon - Major Flooding Inundates Drought-Stricken Colorado Cities

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