April 3, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - citizen patients, institutional sexism, geotropism, nuclear power, blogging to success, and more.

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- Dr. Nortin M. Hadler - Doctor, what would you do if you were me?

- Melanie Tannenbaum - The Problem When Sexism Just Sounds So Darn Friendly…

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- Jennifer Frazer - Roots Down, Shoots Up. But How Does a Plant Know Which is Which?

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Nuclear power may have saved 1.8 million lives otherwise lost to fossil fuels, may save up to 7 million more.

- John R. Platt - Poachers Have Killed 62 Percent of Forest Elephants in the Past Decade

- Bora Zivkovic - How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels)

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Fat Tuesday: Insidious Weight Bias and An interview with Neal Stephenson

- David Wogan - No prayer necessary: Texas Legislature passes major water infrastructure and conservation bill

- Christine Gorman - China Reports More Cases of Rare H7N9 Bird Flu

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