April 18, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - BRAIN, Earth's limits, supervolcanoes, human origins, painting with fish, and more.

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- Cynthia Graber - Beyond Boston: A reporter leaves home soon after the bombings and finds some solace in science

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- Ramez Naam - The Limits of the Earth–Part 1: Problems

- Cadell Last - Supervolcanoes in the Ancient World

- Eric Michael Johnson - The Mosaic of Human Origins

- Becky Crew - New Skin-Feeding Amphibian Found in French Guiana

- Melissa C. Lott - The Power Is in the Data – reports reveal the status of global clean-energy transition

- Dana Hunter - Chris Rowan Writes About Iran’s Earthquakes So I Don’t Have To

- Ingrid Wickelgren - How to Make Kids Smarter—and Ease Existential Terror

- Psi Wavefunction - A happy nucleus

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Who Needs a Paintbrush When You Can Use a Dead Fish?

- Alex Wild - Snowflakes, Bias, and Science Photography

- Evelyn Lamb - Big Numbers Are Big

- Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik - Illusion of the Week: Monumental Arcimboldo

- John Matson - Why It’s Better to Text Than Call in a Mass Emergency

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