May 22, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - niche construction, cicadas, ageing, Moon, pirates' dodo, sick caecilians, hurricane forecasts, and more.

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- David Rothenberg - Discover the Secret of the 17-Year Cicada, But It Won’t Get You Tenure

- Jag Bhalla - We Fit Nature to Us: Evolution’s 2-Way Street

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- Andrew P. Han - Prolonging the buzz with Grandma

- Ben Thomas - What's Individuality, and Where Does It Come From?

- Caleb A. Scharf - The Moon has it all: Explosions, Water, and Clues to the Grand Tack

- Jennifer Frazer - Pirates, Charles Darwin, and One Very Un-Extinct Dodo

- John Horgan - Why You should Care About Pentagon Funding of Obama’s BRAIN Initiative

- John R. Platt - Frog-Killing Chytrid Fungus Hits Rarely Seen, Wormlike Amphibians

- Scott Barry Kaufman - The Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice

- Alex Wild - Recipe for a Photograph #2: Bee in Flight

- Richelle Tanner - USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: An Analysis of Sargassum Horneri Ecosystem Impact

- Psi Wavefunction - Dividing Arcella (test construction in progress)

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Introducing: Kyle Hill

- Carin Bondar - Evolutionary Tales – A Hip Hop Theatre Cycle: Baba Brinkman is Back!

- Scicurious - The Scent of a Feline

- David Biello - How to Use the Bathroom on a 20-Hour Plus Solar Airplane Flight [Video]

- Mark Fischetti - U.S. Hurricane Forecasts Could Be Better

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