April 20, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - square foot over a year, baboons, Casimir Effect, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Eld s deer and more.

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- David Haskell - The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Sewanee’s Forest

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- Emily Cramer - From Babies to Baboons: One Woman’s Path to Success

- Jennifer Ouellette - Quantum Casimir Effect Inspires Indie FilmmakersandLHC’s Surprise Visitor: Kern the Globe-Trotting Gnome

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day: the misuse and abuse of the Nazi analogy in modern bioethics

- Darren Naish - Eld’s deer: endangered, persisting in fragmented populations, and morphologically weird… but it wasn’t always so

- Maria Konnikova - The Storytelling Animal: A Conversation with Jonathan Gottschall

- Bora Zivkovic - Introducing: Nadia Drake

- John R. Platt - Geese May Be Helping to Spread Frog-Killing Fungus

- Alex Wild - The poor man’s macro kit: extension tubes

- Wayne Maddison - Spiders in Borneo: Top ten animal encounters

- David Ginsburg and Jim Haw - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Moving Forward to Guam and Palau 2012

- Krystal D'Costa - Editor's Selections: Tool use, Parasitic siblings, Facial expressions, Settlers, and Gaslighting

- Mariette DiChristina - Whale.FM: Where Citizen Science, Whale Songs, and Education Come Together

- Gary Stix - Ramachandran’s Lab Looks Into Whether You Can Be a Man in the Morning and a Woman at Night

- Kate Wong - Why Chimpanzees Kill

- Mark Fischetti - Earth Day 2012: The Best and Worst Pronouncements

- Michael Moyer - Slow-Motion Mayhem Video Sets Flour Aflame [video]

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