April 5, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - feathered tyrannosaurs, coral transplants, nanomedicine, Kawasaki Disease, and more.

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Yes! We've made it! Forget NYTimes or BBC or NPR - SciAm Blogs were featured in The Onion! That is the pinnacle - nowhere higher to go. We are now part of the popular culture - see the video... of course, we made it our newest Video of the Week ;-)

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- Richard E. Dodge - Coral Transplants Offer Hope to Threatened Reefs

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- Sarah Fecht - Gigantic Feathered Dinosaur Fossils Found in China

- Katherine Harmon - Programmable Nanomedicine Cancer Treatment Shrinks Human Tumors

- Jennifer Frazer - Can Diseases Cross Oceans By Wind?

- Jason G. Goldman - A Psychologist Goes To The Zoo: An Interview with Terry L. Maple

- James Byrne - Mucous Cancer – The mess of Pseudomyxoma peritonei

- Carin Bondar - Want to run a successful Kickstarter campaign? Start with cinematic genius…

- Joanne Manaster - Scientific American Blogs Officially Pop Culture Icon!

- Jennifer Ouellette - From the Archives: Gettin’ Jiggly With It

- Anna Kuchment - High school students design device to keep astronauts’ hearts healthy in space

- Dana Hunter - Suggestion Box

- Scicurious - Imposter Syndrome: could we learn something from sports?

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