November 29, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Monday - Higgs, Sky Cranes, Oracles, Mars, Placozoans, Mushrooms and more

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Welcome back - I hope you had a great weekend. As usual on Mondays, we have a new Image of the Week for you - check it out.

And the bloggers have come out in full force after the holidays:

- Kelly Oakes - Why the Higgs Boson Matters

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- Amy Shira Teitel - Sky Crane – how to land Curiosity on the surface of Mars

- Krystal D'Costa - Oracles Past and Present: Our Means of Managing Information

- David Bressan - Glaciers from Mars

- Jennifer Frazer - Shimmying Sheet Animal Senses Oxygen With Enzymes That Still Work in You

- Scicurious - Book Review: Mushroom

- Darren Naish - Gerhard Maier’s African Dinosaurs Unearthed: the Tendaguru Expeditions

- Bora Zivkovic - Books: ‘Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science’ by Michael NielsenandMaking it in the new media ecosystem, at ScienceOnline2012

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Science kits … for girls.andSome reasons gendered science kits may be counterproductive.

- Carin Bondar - The iGEM Competition: Synthetic Biologists and Molecular AnimationandMonday Music Video: The Glamorous Platypus

- Joanne Manaster - Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil DeGrasse Tyson

- Jennifer Jacquet - When Crabs Throw Their Claws in the Air, They Wave Them Like They Care

- Jason G. Goldman - Sunday Photoblogging: San Diego Storm

- Caleb A. Scharf - Curiosity Across the Stars

- Philip Yam - A Brief History of Stephen Hawking: A Video Tribute

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