November 15, 2011

#SciAmBlogs Monday - crime witness, #SfN11, beauty, and much more...

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Monday - check out the new Image of the Week and then see all the goodies the bloggers gave you over the weekend and today:

- Scott Huler - A Word in Defense of the Witnesses — and the Word is “Ambiguity”

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- Glendon Mellow - Bleed Pretty Cells: interview with Michele Banks

- Scicurious - SfN Neuroblogging: Dutiful monkey dadsandAlpha1a adrenergic receptors, survival, and cancerandSfN Neuroblogging: Serotonin and food motivationandSFN Neuroblogging: Neurogenesis and stress responsesandSfN Neuroblogging: The brain and the BMI

- S.E. Gould - How cancer-causing bacteria force your cells to die

- David Bressan - November 13, 1985: The Nevado del Ruiz Lahars

- John Horgan - Can Science Solve–Really Solve–the Problem of Beauty?

- Kevin Zelnio - Microscopic Worlds

- Jason G. Goldman - If Chickens Like Consonant Music, Will They Hate B.B. King? That’s Not Even the Right Question to AskandSunday Photoblogging: Urban Jungle

- Christie Wilcox - Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs

- Darren Naish - What they’re saying about The Great Dinosaur Discoveries

- Alex Wild - How to not get trampled by an angry elephant

- Debbie Knight - Good things come in small packages? A chat about nanotechnology and food safety

- Lucas Brouwers - Globin duplication was the key to a healthy heartbeat

- Joanne Manaster - Monday Music Video: Ph. Diddy is on the scene! An Animated Music Video for Biotech Lab Work

- Michael Moyer - The Best Video of Earth from Space Ever Made

- Geoff Wheat - North Pond: Turning “Junked” Into Success: A Story of Working Together

- Princess Ojiaku - SwM meets #SfN11!

- Bora Zivkovic - Interview, in Spanish, in Journal of FeelsynapsisandBIO101 – Physiology: Regulation and ControlandMovies and Video at ScienceOnline2011

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