November 24, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - Thanksgiving science, bathroom bacteria, capsaicin trials, and more....

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- Cheryl Murphy - Tom Turkey’s Terrific Vision

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- Judy Stone - Molecules to Medicine: Should pepper spray be put on (clinical) trial?

- Rob Dunn - Public bathrooms house thousands of kinds of bacteria

- Scicurious - Impulsivity, addiction, and your synapses

- Larry Greenemeier - Computerized Contact Lenses Could Enable In-Eye Augmented Reality

- Katherine Harmon - Monarch Butterfly Genome Gives Clues about Slew of Migration Mysteries

- James Byrne - Eye movements give your dreams away

- Bora Zivkovic - Myths about myths about Thanksgiving turkey making you sleepy andOutreach, activism and persuasion at ScienceOnline2012

- S.E. Gould - Bacteria that live on the Atkins Diet

- Bora Zivkovic - Scienceblogging: Scitable – a Q&A with Khalil Cassimally

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Why does Thanksgiving dinner make you sleepy?

- Lucas Brouwers - Frog-killing fungus is a skin-loving hybrid

- Christine Ottery - Audio interview with ‘Wild’ author Jay Griffiths

- Jennifer Ouellette - A Taste of Science for Turkey Day

- Bora Zivkovic - Weekly Highlights #13 – MIT science writing program

- Christie Wilcox - Two Words: An Open Letter To Ed Rybicki

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