May 17, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Allomothers, Exome Sequencing, Writing about patients, Social Media For Scientists and more.

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Wednesday, thus time for a new Video of the Week!

- Kate Clancy - Happy Mother’s Day: To All the Allomothers

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- Ricki Lewis - 10 Things Exome Sequencing Can’t Do–But Why It’s Still Powerful

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Writing about patients: lessons from first year

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Introducing: Shara Yurkiewicz

- Ferris Jabr - Know Your Neurons: How to Classify Different Types of Neurons in the Brain’s Forest

- John R. Platt - Sanctuaries Established to Help Save Spectacular Kashmiri Goat

- Janet D. Stemwedel - The purpose of a funding agency (and how that should affect its response to misconduct).

- Melissa C. Lott - America’s ‘Supersized’ Energy Waste

- Emily Lu - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The Coconut Crab in Guam

- Bora Zivkovic - Under construction – ITER in LEGO

- Christie Wilcox - Social Media For Scientists Part 5: It’s Time To e-Volve

- Scicurious - Environment Enrichment: making your rat sexy since 2012

- Christine Gorman - Microbes Annihilate the “Nature vs. Nurture” Debate

- John Matson - Animal Tracks: Music about Unusual Creatures Features Some Unusual Instruments [Video]

- David Biello - Soot May Help Shift Tropics North

- Robin Lloyd - Is Football to Blame for Players’ Suicides?

- Gary Stix - Paralyzed Patient Swills Coffee by Issuing Thought Commands to a Robot

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