September 18, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday – Food Waste, Hygiene Hypothesis, Myths about Endangered Species Act, robot-testing dogs, Bohemian Gravity, and more.

Have fun with our newest Video of the Week! - Perrin Ireland – Dr. Ted Labuza on Slime, Bombs, and Rot and 40 Percent of Food in the US Never Gets Eaten - Buddhini Samarasinghe – Hallmarks of Cancer 1: Self-Sufficiency in Growth Signals - Markus Pössel – Escaping the Confucian trap [...]

By Bora Zivkovic

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- Perrin Ireland - Dr. Ted Labuza on Slime, Bombs, and Rotand40 Percent of Food in the US Never Gets Eaten

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- Buddhini Samarasinghe - Hallmarks of Cancer 1: Self-Sufficiency in Growth Signals

- Markus Pössel - Escaping the Confucian trap

- Beatrice Lugger - Pauline Tan: Stereovision Maths

- Kevin Bonham - Eating Dirt: The Benefits of Being (Relatively) Filthy

- Jason G. Goldman - If You Need To Test Your New Robot, Ask A Dog

- Katherine Harmon Courage - How Does That Crazy Camouflage Octopus Disappear? [Video]

- John R. Platt - The 5 Biggest Myths about the Endangered Species Act

- Felicity Muth - How Do Ants Coordinate Moving Huge Objects?andAny Black Bear Experts Out There?

- Alex Wild - These are a few of my favorite stings…

- David Wogan - On environmentalism and ‘frackademia’

- Sean Hannah, Pierre Balthazard, Robert W. Thatcher and David A. Waldman - NeuroLeadership

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Turns Out There IS Something New Under the Sun

- Joanne Manaster - A Capella Science–Bohemian Gravity

- Darren Naish - The Jehol-Wealden International Conference, 2013

- DNLee - Share your STEM education and career testimony & help change the equation

- Scicurious - Remembering alternatives

- Mariette DiChristina - The Smart Approach to Development: Incorporate Science

- Dina Fine Maron - Condoms Behind Bars: A Modest Proposal to Cut STIs in Calif. Prisons

- Katherine Harmon Courage - New View Into Our Guts Reveals Microbiome’s Murky Links To Health

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