May 2, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - atomic claymation, learning rules, osmosis confusion, first dinomania, dog lists, ribosomes, learning disorders and more.

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As usually on Wednesdays, we have the new Video of the Week. And, as it is the first of the month, we have the new Best Of Blogs video:

- Jag Bhalla - Our Ruly Nature

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- Eric M. Kramer - Osmosis Confusion: 60 Years and Counting

- Maria Konnikova - The perils of hindsight judgment

- Julie Hecht - 6 things dogs have in common with Susan Sontag

- David Bressan - May 1, 1851: The First Dinomania (and Dinosaur Nightmares)

- Abid Javed - Scicurious Guest Writer! Ribosomes: ‘Prepare to be translated’

- Janet D. Stemwedel - The quest for underlying order: inside the frauds of Diederik Stapel (part 1)

- DNLee - Florida teen charged with felony for trying science

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - How to repel kids from science: By chaining curiosity in cuffs

- Rosemary Tannock - Rethinking Learning Disorders

- John R. Platt - Just 35 Devils Hole Pupfish Remain—Does Extinction Loom?

- Ainissa Ramirez - Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists

- John Horgan - Author of The Physics of Wall Street Ponders Strings, Black Swans and a Final Theory of Finance

- Carin Bondar - Jetpack Rocket Science – With Derek Muller

- Joanne Manaster - World’s Smallest Stop Motion Movie Made with Atoms!

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Delicious Portrait

- Bora Zivkovic - Best of April at A Blog Around The Clock

- Larry Greenemeier - IBM Movie Does Claymation, at the Atomic Scale [Video]

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