October 27, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - spider porn, energy miracles and wandering eyes...

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- Meera Lee Sethi - Internet Porn Fills Gap in Spider Taxonomy

- Lesley Evans Ogden - Vehicle-to-grid technology: Electric cars become power-grid batteries.

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- Chris Rowan - A geologist-eye view of the Van earthquake

- Cassie Rodenberg - If you could improve your personality with a hallucinogenic drug, would you?

- Melissa C. Lott - Energy Miracles: Innovating to Zero CO2

- Krystal D'Costa - Anatomy of a Superstition: When Your Eye “Jumps”andEditor’s Selections: Power and Corruption, and Physical Punishment

- Michelle Clement - Did you know that hard candy is actually a glass?

- Jason G. Goldman - Killer Whales in Captivity: Not a 13th Amendment Problem

- DNLee - What’s missing here? The Root Top 100 lists most influential African Americans

- John R. Platt - Please Don’t Feed the Endangered Eagles?

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Methodology versus beliefs: What did Marcus Ross do wrong?

- Bora Zivkovic - #scio11 – How can we maintain high journalism standards on the web?

- Bora Zivkovic - Weekly Highlights #10

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