November 2, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - cycads, lancelets, robots and loving eyes...

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Another day, another treasure trove of sciencey goodness on the blogs:

- Cheryl Murphy - Learning the Look of Love: In your Eyes, the Light the Heat

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- Maria Konnikova - Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Why Most of Us Wouldn’t Be Able to Tell That Watson Fought in Afghanistan

- Bora Zivkovic - Lesson of the Day: Circadian Clocks are HARD to shift!and#scio11 – Blogging on the Career Path

- David Bressan - November 1, 1755: The Earthquake of Lisbon: Wrath of God or Natural Disaster?

- Michael Moyer - Plane from Newark Crash Lands in Poland [Video]

- Jason G. Goldman - Halloween Editor’s Selections: Ghosts, Zombies, and Stealing Candy

- Anna Kuchment - Why Minnesotans excel at math, and other mysteries of the Nation’s Report Card

- Kevin Zelnio - Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Evolution

- John R. Platt - Could an Artificial Cave Help Protect Bats from Deadly Fungus?

- Geoff Wheat and Katrina Edwards - North Pond: Stars and Their Infinite Reach

- Christine Gorman - Scientific American–Then and Now

- Lucas Brouwers - Shapeless sacks and oblong paper-knives: meet your cousins

- Scott Huler - The Robots Who Could Have Saved Fukushima Are Coming

- Jennifer Frazer - The Surprising Lives of Cycads

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