October 16, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - athletic ape, singing fish, teaching chemistry, Ada Lovelace, diatoms, oxytocin, and more.

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- Elizabeth Preston - The Hazards of Being an Athletic Ape

- Gary Stix - When the Cuddle Hormone Is a Home Wrecker

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- Ferris Jabr - What Singing Fish Reveal About Speech and Hearing

- Melissa Gaskill - Counting Fish: Longlines, Lionfish and Liberty Ships

- David Wogan - Energy policy is shaped by what you think about energy

- John R. Platt - Cost to Prevent All Future Extinctions: $11 per Person?

- Janet D. Stemwedel - On the apparent horrors of requiring high school students to take chemistry.andAda Lovelace Day book review: Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science.

- Jennifer Frazer - Diatoms, or The Trouble with Life in Glass Houses

- Kelly Oakes - How Henrietta Leavitt started building a cosmic ladder

- Anna Kuchment - Romney Would Give Less Support For New Science and Math Standards

- Bora Zivkovic - ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Maryn McKenna

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