June 19, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - geography of language, to choke a whale, white dik-dik, resilience, recycling, and more.

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- Kyle Hill - Costanza and the Whale: Could You Make a Blowhole in One?

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- Samuel Jones - Bush-crow diaries: The African night

- Lane Johnston - Okinawa and the U.S. military, post 1945

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- Ferris Jabr - More Than Honey: A New Documentary Offers Spectacular Close-ups of Bees Mid-Flight and Perspective on the Worldwide Honey Bee Crisis

- Cassie Rodenberg - Addicts as Parents, Part I: Pregnant, Now What?

- John R. Platt - Weird Frog Discovered by Charles Darwin May be Extinct

- David Wogan - A look at the Rube Goldberg contraptions that sort our recyclables

- Caleb A. Scharf - Return To The Pale Blue Dot

- Alex Wild - Buzzfeed’s viral sharing prompts a necessary stunt

- Gary Stix - Motorola/Google’s Tech Development Strategy Starts to Emerge

- DNLee - Wordless Wednesday: Long last look

- Kate Clancy - Canopy Meg: Fancy Title, But Does She Still Have Authority?

- Scicurious - What makes naked mole rats cancer resistant?

- John Matson - Explore Mars for Yourself with this Billion-Pixel Image from the Curiosity Rover

- Rachel Scheer - Banana-Peel Plastic, Wastewater Fuel Cell, Body-Heat Flashlight: Meet the Science in Action Finalists, Part I

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