August 27, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – D-Wave, brain-eating amoeba, sexting, giant water bug, squid tentacle, nuclear waste, and more.

- Jesse Dunietz – Quantum Computing Disentangled: A Look Behind the D-Wave Buzz - Judy Stone – Where’s the Real Danger from Infection This Summer?

By Bora Zivkovic

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- Jesse Dunietz - Quantum Computing Disentangled: A Look Behind the D-Wave Buzz

- Judy Stone - Where’s the Real Danger from Infection This Summer?

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- Krystal D'Costa - The Psychology of Sexting

- Jennifer Ouellette - Sherlock Holmes and the Dynamics of an Asteroid

- Jennifer Frazer - The Attack of the Giant Water Bug

- Kate Clancy - Motherhood Won and Lost: One Woman’s Story of Miscarriage

- Hadas Shema - Put your money where your citations are: a proposal for a new funding system

- Becky Crew - First Footage of Deep-Sea Squid Solves Mystery of Lame Tentacle Club

- Katherine Harmon - Even Severed Octopus Arms Have Smart Moves

- Cassie Rodenberg - Abscesses: the Rarely Researched, Costly Marks of Heroin

- Janet D. Stemwedel - How far does the tether of your expertise extend?

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Who’s afraid of nuclear waste?: WIPPing transuranics into shape

- David Wogan - Iceland wants to know: “who needs coal when you have FIRE?”

- Jennifer Muller - Arctic Methane: Flight Monday 19th AM/PM: Going home…

- Glendon Mellow - Talking Visual Communication on BreakingBio

- David Biello - “All of the Above” Energy Means More Fracking, Renewables, Nukes and Clean Coal

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