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What an incredible day of blogging already today! You don't want to miss any of those posts, including the ones from the weekend.

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From the blogs:


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- Kevin Zelnio - Word of the Month: MyrmecomorphyandWelcome to the Circus of the Spineless, Edition #64!

 

- Darren Naish - Obscure Mesozoic birds you’ll only know about if you’re a Mesozoic bird nerd: Jibeinia luanhera

 

- Jason G. Goldman - Happy Shark Week!andMemory: I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means. An Interview with Dan Simons.

 

- Bora Zivkovic - BIO101 – Biology and the Scientific MethodandHow to Fix an Authentic Serbian* Sarma (Stuffed Cabbage)

 

- Khadijah Britton - Biosimilars are back... Or are they?

 

- Glendon Mellow - Scumble #21 - Paleo Controversy Edition

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - Old Briny: Mars, water, and the search for life

 

- Bora Zivkovic - Open Laboratory 2011 - submissions so far

 

- Melanie Tannenbaum - "Anything But Country": What Factor Analysis Reveals About Our Tastes for Tunes

 

- Michelle Clement - Better living through pee-sniffing, or What can urine tell us? Volume 2.

 

- Cassie Rodenberg - Did Ecstasy cause a teen to kill his parents or am I at a '90s rave?

 

- Scicurious - Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Depression, and Stress

 

- Anne Casselman - Getting the Grizzly Story: What Its Like to Report in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest

 

- Anna Kuchment - A moth is born

 

- Charles Q. Choi - A Modest Proposal: Smartphone Balls

 

- John Horgan - What a Rabid Skunk Taught Me about God's (Non)existence

 

- Alex Wild - Powerpoint Peeves #1: The Pointlessness of Thumbnail Images

 

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Environmental impacts of what we eat: the difficulty of apples-to-apples comparisons.

 

- Christie Wilcox - This Week’s Scishimi: I like symmetrical butts and I cannot lie.

 

- Eric Michael Johnson - On the Origin of Cooperative Species: New study reverses a decade of research claiming chimpanzee selfishness

 

- Lucas Brouwers - On the leaves of sea lettuce, the luckiest survive

 

 

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