August 22, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Hospital outbreak, stick insects, consciousness, West Nile, pneumatic transit, and more.

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- Ricki Lewis - Like a Game of Clue, Genomics Tracks Outbreak, Revealing Evolution in Action

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- Steven Ross Pomeroy - From STEM to STEAM: Science and Art Go Hand-in-Hand

- Becky Crew - Lord Howe Island stick insects are going home

- Ferris Jabr - Does Self-Awareness Require a Complex Brain?

- Christie Wilcox - Is Climate Change To Blame For This Year’s West Nile Outbreak?

- Carin Bondar - What Was Scientific American Reporting About in 1870? Pneumatic Transit!

- Gary Stix - Is American Science In Decline?

- Caleb A. Scharf - Watch Out Mars! 1080 HD Video of Curiosity Descent

- Charles Q. Choi - From The Writer’s Desk: What’s up with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

- DNLee - Wordless Wednesday: Tanzanian Horizons over the Indian Ocean

- Scicurious - An opioid receptor mutation that makes you feel the pain

- Mark Fischetti - U.S. Battery Maker Says China May Lead the World in Electric Vehicles

- David Biello - Oil Companies May Have Been Helping Combat Climate Change (A Little)

- Katherine Harmon - One in Five Rx’s for Seniors Is Inappropriate

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