February 1, 2012

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - #scio12 art and video, pigmy hippos, spider webs, sunfish, synchronized eating and more.

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Wednesday, the new Video of the Week day - have fun!

LOTS of good reading today:

- Kalliopi Monoyios - An artist at SciO12

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- Carin Bondar - Science Online 2012: The Music Video

- Kelly Oakes - Snap Asteroid Eros and Help Measure the Size of the Solar System

- April Conway - Conflicts and Cooperation in Conservation: Adventures in Researching the Pygmy Hippopotamus on Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone

- Scott McNally - Guest Post: Why Obama Rejected Keystone XL

- Katherine Harmon - Elegance of Spider Webs Helps Make Them Strong [Video]andNew Map Shows that Most Lyme-Infected Ticks Are in Northeast, Northern Midwest

- David Biello - A Proposal to Introduce Elephants to Australia: Really?

- John R. Platt - Satellites to Track Rare Royal Turtle in Cambodia [Video]

- Krystal D'Costa - On My Shelf: Autophobia (A Review)

- Anna Kuchment - U.S. State Science Standards Are ‘Mediocre to Awful’

- Jason G. Goldman - Synchronized Eating: Social Influences on Eating Behavior

- Darren Naish - A symbiotic relationship between sunfish and… albatrosses? Say what?

- Scicurious - At Neurotic Physiology: Gum chewing for weightloss?

- David Wogan - Introducing the Project on Energy Communication at The University of Texas at Austin

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