October 3, 2013

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday – Southern Ocean, Apoptosis, Bear Trophy Hunting, Hunger, New Climate Data, and more.

Check out the new Video of the Week. - Jillian Keenan – Are Antarctica’s Southern Ocean Ecosystems Doomed to Death by Diplomatic Paralysis?

By Bora Zivkovic

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Check out the new Video of the Week.

- Jillian Keenan - Are Antarctica’s Southern Ocean Ecosystems Doomed to Death by Diplomatic Paralysis?

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- Buddhini Samarasinghe - Hallmarks of Cancer 3: Evading Apoptosis

- Jason G. Goldman - How Trophy Hunting Actually Benefits Croatian Brown Bears

- Zarja Muršič - Scicurious Guest Writer! Where do hunger and cognition intersect?

- Melanie Tannenbaum - Outside the Ivory Tower: Science Writing, Social Media, and Non-Painful Networking.

- Princess Ojiaku - Video: The Scientific Power of Music

- Hilda Bastian - Dancing, sand art and science: Communication by art-y means

- Scott Huler - Back off, Texas — More NC Science Crazy

- David Wogan - When David always beats Goliath

- John Horgan - What “60 Minutes” Gets Wrong in Report on Mental Illness and Violence

- Alex Wild - A simple backlighting trick for microscope photography

- Carin Bondar - Dirty Faces, Dirty Vegetables and the Dirt on Trigonometry – BOB for September is Live!

- Bora Zivkovic - Quick update: UNESCO Belgrade, and NYTimesandBest of September at A Blog Around The Clock

- Mark Fischetti - The New Climate Data: So What?

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