August 20, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Empathetic Mapping, Psychology of Freedom, Correlation Is Not Causation, Metric System, Quetzalcoatlus, Whistleblowing, Jumping Caterpillar, and more.

- Karna Gowda – Empathetic Mapping: Redrawing Chicago to Examine School Choice - William Skaggs – The Psychology of Freedom - Becky Crew – Move Over, Mexican Jumping Beans – There’s a New Jumping Caterpillar in Town - Evelyn Lamb – Sex Makes You Rich?

By Bora Zivkovic

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- Karna Gowda - Empathetic Mapping: Redrawing Chicago to Examine School Choice

- William Skaggs - The Psychology of Freedom

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- Becky Crew - Move Over, Mexican Jumping Beans – There’s a New Jumping Caterpillar in Town

- Evelyn Lamb - Sex Makes You Rich? Why We Keep Saying “Correlation Is Not Causation” Even Though It’s Annoying

- David Wogan - You know what the rest of the world has figured out? The metric system. It’s time the US got on board.

- Darren Naish - Quetzalcoatlus: the evil, pin-headed, toothy nightmare monster that wants to eat your soul

- Adam Waytz - More Questions Than Answers About Whistleblowing

- John Horgan - Why “Optogenetic” Methods for Manipulating Brains Don’t Light Me Up

- Rachel Margolese - Fuel for Thought: problem with briquettes

- Dr Rebecca Fisher - Arctic Methane: A night in Stordalen wetland, Abisko

- Dana Hunter - Dana’s Super-Awesome Mount St. Helens Field Trip Guide II: Castle Lake Viewpoint

- Brian Malow - Olinguito: New Kid on the Block

- Carin Bondar - Best of the Blogs – Summer Vacation Edition!

- DNLee - #SXSW 2014 PanelPicker is open and I’m voting for Broader STEM Engagement

- David Biello - The Climate May Be Changing, but the IPCC Remains the Same

- Arielle Duhaime-Ross - Previously Unknown Mammal Spent Decades Hiding in Plain Sight

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