June 13, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - anthrax, bizzare medical cases, honey, PeerJ, crocodiles, cannabinoids, decompression sickness and more.

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- Judy Stone - Clinical Trials for Beginners: Ethics – Pediatric Anthrax Vaccine Case Study

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- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Three bizarre tales of medical survivors, and what they can (and cannot) teach us about medicine

- Eric Michael Johnson - The Failed Synthesis: Eduard Kolchinsky on the Dangers of Mixing Science and Politics

- Darren Naish - Earth: Crocodile Empire homeworld (crocodiles part I)

- Christie Wilcox - Using cannabinoids to overcome fear in the brain

- Jason G. Goldman - Sidewalk Science: A Different Approach To Outreach

- Marc Kuchner - Flame challenge fails to challenge negative stereotypes of scientists

- John Horgan - What Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us about Drones and Cyber-War

- Scott Huler - Et Tu, Virginia? Again with the Sea Level Rise

- Alex Wild - The Color of Honey

- Bora Zivkovic - New and exciting kid on the block: PeerJ

- DNLee - African-American Science Bloggers, Writers, and Tweeters

- Kaitlin Mogentale - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: New Methods to Avoid Decompression Sickness

- Rose Eveleth - You wanted to know: what am I bringing to sea?

- The SA Incubator - Introducing: Noby Leong and Tristan O’Brien

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