September 5, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - getting and staying pregnant in humans vs. llamas, Voyager, dancing woolly aphids, and more.

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- Holly Dunsworth - How to apply an evolutionary hypothesis about gestation to your pregnancy

- Russ Campbell - Science Communication in Nancy, France

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- Kate Clancy - Llama Llama Get With Mama: The Magical Semen Ingredient that Makes the Ladies Swoon (Then Ovulate)

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Theories, models and the future of science

- Jennifer Ouellette - Walking on… Custard? Fun with Non-Newtonian Fluids

- Maria Konnikova - Revisiting Robbers Cave: The easy spontaneity of intergroup conflict

- Becky Crew - Dancing woolly aphids will probably stab you

- Jennifer Frazer - How Ballistic Cup Fungi Fire Their Spores (and Look Cool Doing It)

- Melissa Pandika - Surprise Valley: Smoothing out the Kinks

- Kelly Oakes - Voyager: a binary love story

- Caleb A. Scharf - Single Suns Adorn Most Alien Skies (Probably)

- John R. Platt - Japanese River Otter Declared Extinct

- Kendall Benton - How Combining Digital Technology And Science Communication Can Make The World A Better Place

- Glendon Mellow - SciArt of the Day: Speculative Dimorphism

- Kalliopi Monoyios - SciArt of the Day: Cuckoos, Nightjars, Pootoos… yes, Pootoos!

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: Panyabukuu Haiku

- Darren Naish - Leonard Brightwell’s brilliant palaeo-zoo

- John Matson - NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft May Not Be Near Edge of Solar System After All

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