November 20, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Tuesday - zombie bacteria, sleep and memory, quantum cryptography, dinosaur trunks, hungry ciliates, ancient eyes, and more.

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- Simon J Makin - Sleep On It

- Alan Woodward - Quantum Cryptography At The End Of Your Road

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- Jennifer Ouellette - Quantum Dots of Many Colors

- Darren Naish - Junk in the trunk: why sauropod dinosaurs did not possess trunks (redux, 2012)

- Psi Wavefunction - Frontonia: dissecting a ciliate appetite

- Jennifer Frazer - Mycoplasma “Ghosts” Can Rise From the Dead

- Lucas Brouwers - Animal vision evolved 700 million years ago

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes: A bizarre juxtaposition if there ever was one

- Maria Konnikova - Killer blueberries: Inside the reality of paranoia

- John R. Platt - Last 22 Gobi Bears Endangered by Climate Change in Mongolia

- Ferris Jabr - Does Eating Turkey Really Make You Sleepy?

- John Horgan - What Should Teachers Say to Religious Students Who Doubt Evolution?

- DNLee - Black may not crack, but it can sunburn

- George Musser - Caveat Emptor, Solar Homeowners

- Jason G. Goldman - ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections: Headaches, Turkey, Gratitude, and Dogs

- Katherine Harmon - Wormholes In Art Trace Species Through Time and Space

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