June 22, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - mirror-image twins, meiosis, microbial mountain, fMRI primer, kiwi, blogging, scary bird flu, and more.

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- John de Dios - Mirror Mirror: Examining Nature’s Copy and Paste

- Heather Bray - Decoding the dance of the chromosomes

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- Becky Crew - Pyura chilensis: the closest thing to getting blood from a stone

- John R. Platt - Rarest Kiwi Species Takes Flight

- Dana Hunter - Prelude to a Catastrophe: "Something Dramatic"

- Daniel Barta - MSU Dinosaurs: Coda: Beijing

- Rose Eveleth - You wanted to know: what is this virus that infects the phytoplankton? (Part One)

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Blogging and recycling: thoughts on the ethics of reuse.

- Bora Zivkovic - Why do we blog? To change the world

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Daisy Yuhas

- Bora Zivkovic - Thank you MSU for the dinosaur eggs series

- David Bressan - The Mysterious Microbial Origin of Mountains

- David Wogan - In defense of walking: more on Honda’s Uni-Cub, obesity, and our burden on resources

- Cassie Rodenberg - Filming “Oxyana,” West Virginia Coal Town’s Prescription Drug Abuse

- Charles Q. Choi - A Modest Proposal: Virtual Keyboards via Leap Eyeglasses

- DNLee - Urban Science Adventure: Pollination Observations

- Alex Wild - Thrifty Thursday: Under The Scope

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor’s Selection: Excavations, Hurricanes, and Bonobos

- Larry Greenemeier - Imagination + a Little Movie Magic = a Volkswagen Hover Car Silently Navigating City Streets [Video]andA Crypto Expert’s View on Scary Bird Flu Data

- Daisy Yuhas - What’s a voxel and what can it tell us? A primer on fMRI

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