July 3, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Lindau Nobel meeting, dementia, mesosaurs, real fruit fly, Hadfield's book, fireworks, abalone, and more.

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- R. Douglas Fields - School Work Prevents Senile Dementia

- Ashutosh Jogalekar - Lindau 2013: Supramolecular chemistry – Moving away from synthesis and toward designandLindau 2013: Steven Chu talks innovation, energy, climate change and awareness

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Addressing (unintended) disrespect in your professional community.

- Ilana Yurkiewicz - Watchful waiting

- Megan Herring - Southern California and Endangered Abalone Populations

- Darren Naish - The Tet Zoo guide to mesosaurs

- Maria Konnikova - The art of storytelling meets the science of autism: A conversation with Richard Panek

- Gary Stix - Got (Skim) Milk?: Maybe A Recipe for Obesity and Cancer

- David Wogan - Now is Not the Time to Gut Funding for Innovative Energy Research

- Joanne Manaster - Chris Hadfield Writes a Book: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life (on Earth)

- Alex Wild - Drosophila pseudoobscura: a model fruit fly for the real world

- Dana Hunter - So, Yeah, That’s Us in the New York Times!andPrelude to a Catastrophe and The Cataclysm: Links to Date

- DNLee - #DispatchesDNLee: I’m back in the States

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Writing is a Powerful Drug: Interviews That Will Inspire Up-And-Coming Writers

- Scicurious - What is dopamine? And Can Being a bookworm help your brain

- Bryan Bumgardner - Do Fireworks Resemble the True Sights and Sounds of the U.S.’s Key Historical Battles?

- Philip Yam - Gravity-Defying, Self-Siphoning Metal Beads Explained [Video]

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