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Scientific American Blogs Posts http://blogs.scientificamerican.com Scientific American Blog Network combines a community of science bloggers and staff-authored blogs to provide authoritative information and insights about science and technology, and their roles in global affairs. With a great diversity in tone and topics, contributing bloggers range from graduate students, who are launching their careers, to veteran science writers. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:12:45 en http://www.scientificamerican.com/favicon.ico Scientific American Blogs Posts http://blogs.scientificamerican.com The Network Central #SciAmBlogs Wednesday – singing mice, fungal civiliization, icefish, chestnut clock, addiction predisposition, not-so-fast neutrinos, and more. Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=2f2a66ebe1daf0f45d823e9c996a3487 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/22/sciamblogs-wednesday-singing-mice-fungal-civiliization-icefish-chestnut-clock-addiction-predisposition-not-so-fast-neutrinos-and-more/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/22/sciamblogs-wednesday-singing-mice-fungal-civiliization-icefish-chestnut-clock-addiction-predisposition-not-so-fast-neutrinos-and-more/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:12:45 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/22/sciamblogs-wednesday-singing-mice-fungal-civiliization-icefish-chestnut-clock-addiction-predisposition-not-so-fast-neutrinos-and-more/feed/ 0 Video of the Week Watching food digestion Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=7b6281083f4ef902bfae03fe9ce475ec http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/02/22/watching-food-digestion/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/02/22/watching-food-digestion/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:24:28 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/02/22/watching-food-digestion/feed/ 0 Life, Unbounded Superluminal Neutrino Result Caused by Faulty Connection? Caleb A. Scharf http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=561de9d2fb84c53b956dea85ac45a828 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/02/22/superluminal-neutrino-result-caused-by-faulty-connection/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/02/22/superluminal-neutrino-result-caused-by-faulty-connection/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:35:04 Caleb A. Scharf A data transmission problem? (Wikipedia/BigRiz)

A data transmission problem? (Wikipedia/BigRiz)

Although still awaiting full confirmation, a breaking news report in Science (and Nature, see below) indicates that the measurement of an apparently faster-than-light travel time for muon-neutrinos generated at CERN and detected at the Gran Sasso laboratory – which hit the world headlines back in September 2011 – may have been due to a problematic [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/02/22/superluminal-neutrino-result-caused-by-faulty-connection/feed/ 0 Observations Could GPS Problems Explain Seemingly Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos? John Matson http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=b28e4efe3d1efebd5027ada66a16a7b1 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/22/could-gps-problems-explain-seemingly-faster-than-light-neutrinos/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/22/could-gps-problems-explain-seemingly-faster-than-light-neutrinos/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:31:42 John Matson

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/22/could-gps-problems-explain-seemingly-faster-than-light-neutrinos/feed/ 0 Observations Being Happy: Social and Natural Factors Are More Important than Money (Especially in Costa Rica) Mark Fischetti http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=54f4dedffae4ab82841c2195cd25314e http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/22/being-happy-social-and-natural-factors-are-more-important-than-money-especially-in-costa-rica/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/22/being-happy-social-and-natural-factors-are-more-important-than-money-especially-in-costa-rica/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:30:12 Mark Fischetti

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/22/being-happy-social-and-natural-factors-are-more-important-than-money-especially-in-costa-rica/feed/ 0 Basic Space Faster-than-light neutrinos explained? Kelly Oakes http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=0ab6cc1846dd5dbf8d1a88b5607b8c2b http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/2012/02/22/faster-than-light-neutrinos-explained/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/2012/02/22/faster-than-light-neutrinos-explained/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:18:14 Kelly Oakes

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/2012/02/22/faster-than-light-neutrinos-explained/feed/ 1 Thoughtomics Antarctica’s Erratic Climate Shaped Icefish Evolution Lucas Brouwers http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=c775c598e0e29fe5456e54ad6a89a873 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/02/22/antarcticas-erratic-climate-shaped-icefish-evolution/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/02/22/antarcticas-erratic-climate-shaped-icefish-evolution/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:07:02 Lucas Brouwers Larva of a crocodile icefish. Photo by Uwe Kils.

Larva of a crocodile icefish. Photo by Uwe Kils.

Few fish would survive a swim in Antartica’s ice-covered waters. Temperatures can drop to -1.9 ℃, whereas a typical fish starts to freeze at -0.8 ℃. If the water is colder, microscopic ice crystals will soon infiltrate the fish through gills and skin and start growing from within. Nerves are severed, tissues damaged, and the [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/02/22/antarcticas-erratic-climate-shaped-icefish-evolution/feed/ 0 Anthropology in Practice Ashes, Yarmulkes and the Hijab: Communitas and Religious Symbols Krystal D'Costa http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=7b301c96803c2518d45d293073600938 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/2012/02/22/ashes-yarmulkes-and-the-hijab-communitas-and-religious-symbols/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/2012/02/22/ashes-yarmulkes-and-the-hijab-communitas-and-religious-symbols/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:45:33 Krystal D'Costa

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/2012/02/22/ashes-yarmulkes-and-the-hijab-communitas-and-religious-symbols/feed/ 0 The White Noise My genetic profile says I’d be a heroin addict Cassie Rodenberg http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=4aef2300e43b8e2846aa88402bd6f139 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/22/my-genetic-profile-says-id-be-a-heroin-addict/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/22/my-genetic-profile-says-id-be-a-heroin-addict/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:31:10 Cassie Rodenberg substantial heroin

Two years ago my genes were profiled. Results ranged from useful (high risk for blood clots) to mildly unsettling (I do have curly blonde hair and blue eyes). But among the laundry list of drug response and trait data was something that peaked my interest — sandwiched between ‘Floxacillin Toxicity’ and ‘Lumirazcoxib Side Effects’ was [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/22/my-genetic-profile-says-id-be-a-heroin-addict/feed/ 1 Disease Prone The bacteria in your belly Pt. 2 – Adults James Byrne http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=ec4df9b0d7a7517f9c119bdd5d227f72 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/2012/02/22/the-bacteria-in-your-belly-pt-2-adults/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/2012/02/22/the-bacteria-in-your-belly-pt-2-adults/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:00:02 James Byrne

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/2012/02/22/the-bacteria-in-your-belly-pt-2-adults/feed/ 0 Plugged In Fracking gets the NMA Taiwan animation treatment David Wogan http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=4288c4c6870553f9412ef18f228b4053 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/22/fracking-gets-the-nma-taiwan-animation-treatment/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/22/fracking-gets-the-nma-taiwan-animation-treatment/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:52:33 David Wogan

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/22/fracking-gets-the-nma-taiwan-animation-treatment/feed/ 0 A Blog Around The Clock Tomorrow in Charlotte: ‘How the Web is Changing the Way Science Is Communicated, Taught and Done.’ Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=70a08f4df51017944aaa908b2249525f http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/22/tomorrow-in-charlotte-how-the-web-is-changing-the-way-science-is-communicated-taught-and-done/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/22/tomorrow-in-charlotte-how-the-web-is-changing-the-way-science-is-communicated-taught-and-done/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:08:18 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/22/tomorrow-in-charlotte-how-the-web-is-changing-the-way-science-is-communicated-taught-and-done/feed/ 0 Guest Blog A Science Miniseries: The Big Story of Alcohol, Civilization and a Little Fungus Rob Dunn http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=0c49c92ec51ee6b82d68a9bcafaf74c7 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/22/a-science-miniseries-the-big-story-of-alcohol-civilization-and-a-little-fungus/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/22/a-science-miniseries-the-big-story-of-alcohol-civilization-and-a-little-fungus/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:02:47 Rob Dunn

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/22/a-science-miniseries-the-big-story-of-alcohol-civilization-and-a-little-fungus/feed/ 0 A Blog Around The Clock Chestnut Tree Circadian Clock Stops In Winter Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=c2275285e8cb95e3ed169793a75bd353 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/22/chestnut-tree-circadian-clock-stops-in-winter/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/22/chestnut-tree-circadian-clock-stops-in-winter/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:05:37 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/22/chestnut-tree-circadian-clock-stops-in-winter/feed/ 0 The Scicurious Brain And you can tell everybody, this is your mouse’s song Scicurious http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=dffde7b4e8e0fc117083f75b579f1d96 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/22/and-you-can-tell-everybody-this-is-your-mouses-song/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/22/and-you-can-tell-everybody-this-is-your-mouses-song/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:17:38 Scicurious 800px-Мышь_2

Otherwise titled: Your mouse sounds JUST like his dad! Hoffman et al. “Spectrographic analyses reveal signals of individuality and kinship in the ultrasonic courtship vocalizations of wild house mice” Physiology and Behavior, 2012. (Source)

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/22/and-you-can-tell-everybody-this-is-your-mouses-song/feed/ 0 http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/uploads/media/Mouse_song_Audio_S4_Pitch-Shifted_16x_longer_segment.wav The Network Central #SciAmBlogs Tuesday – big brains, caveman’s yeast, social drinking, oil subsidies, and more. Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=1b67e5bcae875d66f087565470ea7713 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/21/sciamblogs-tuesday-big-brains-cavemans-yeast-social-drinking-oil-subsidies-and-more/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/21/sciamblogs-tuesday-big-brains-cavemans-yeast-social-drinking-oil-subsidies-and-more/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:53:16 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/21/sciamblogs-tuesday-big-brains-cavemans-yeast-social-drinking-oil-subsidies-and-more/feed/ 0 Streams of Consciousness Surprising Truths about How We Think and Act Ingrid Wickelgren http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=3141a540b55696f35806b4d21cbcf115 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2012/02/21/surprising-truths-about-how-we-think-and-act/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2012/02/21/surprising-truths-about-how-we-think-and-act/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:39:29 Ingrid Wickelgren

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2012/02/21/surprising-truths-about-how-we-think-and-act/feed/ 0 Extinction Countdown Extinction Looms for Rare Frog Species, Now Down to 1 Individual John R. Platt http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=a174fba30dd1a3843075a7df8019b3d8 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/21/extinction-looms-rare-frog-species-down-to-1-individual/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/21/extinction-looms-rare-frog-species-down-to-1-individual/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:52:53 John R. Platt

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/21/extinction-looms-rare-frog-species-down-to-1-individual/feed/ 1 A Blog Around The Clock Berry Go Round – send in your posts for the next botanical blog carnival Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=09b37279941ca1e2af12a0f13800d60a http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/21/berry-go-round-send-in-your-post-for-the-next-botanical-blog-carnival/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/21/berry-go-round-send-in-your-post-for-the-next-botanical-blog-carnival/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:26:19 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/02/21/berry-go-round-send-in-your-post-for-the-next-botanical-blog-carnival/feed/ 0 The White Noise The science of relapse (and when did drinking become a hobby?) Cassie Rodenberg http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=16d8b2229553cf0a3ecc0f8def4cdb3f http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/21/the-science-of-relapse-and-when-did-drinking-become-a-hobby/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/21/the-science-of-relapse-and-when-did-drinking-become-a-hobby/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:11:08 Cassie Rodenberg Alcoholic_beverages

Every so often I’m briefly and viscerally aware of environmental “triggers,” cues to use a substance, and how difficult evading them must be for addicts. Alcohol, on billboards and shopping bags, commercials and taxi cabs, is everywhere, and avoiding it teems with impossibility. For the rest of us, it may be moderately comparable to running [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/21/the-science-of-relapse-and-when-did-drinking-become-a-hobby/feed/ 0 The Thoughtful Animal Editor’s Selections: Casinos, Hazing, and Psychosis in the City Jason G. Goldman http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=1518d4bf1d502e85664df8b4cf8a52db http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/21/editors-selections-casinos-hazing-and-psychosis-in-the-city/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/21/editors-selections-casinos-hazing-and-psychosis-in-the-city/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:55:30 Jason G. Goldman

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/21/editors-selections-casinos-hazing-and-psychosis-in-the-city/feed/ 0 Tetrapod Zoology Greg Paul’s Dinosaurs: A Field Guide Darren Naish http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=24b6f4b1a84b70778843d44d25e520c8 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/02/21/greg-pauls-dinosaurs-a-field-guide/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/02/21/greg-pauls-dinosaurs-a-field-guide/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:47:44 Darren Naish

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/02/21/greg-pauls-dinosaurs-a-field-guide/feed/ 30 Observations Staph Turns into Drug-Resistant Superbug on Farms Katherine Harmon http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=3c1bffc2ae3f9ebb82d7406e81e7d2c5 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/21/staph-turns-into-drug-resistant-superbug-on-farms/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/21/staph-turns-into-drug-resistant-superbug-on-farms/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:13:50 Katherine Harmon

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/21/staph-turns-into-drug-resistant-superbug-on-farms/feed/ 1 Observations Transistor Shrunk Down to Scale of Single Phosphorus Atom John Matson http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6c09f5e760323f5f8b263a725e310a2e http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/21/transistor-shrunk-down-to-scale-of-single-phosphorus-atom/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/21/transistor-shrunk-down-to-scale-of-single-phosphorus-atom/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:04:29 John Matson

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/21/transistor-shrunk-down-to-scale-of-single-phosphorus-atom/feed/ 0 Guest Blog Exhausted Writer Discovers First Cave Painting of Yeast Rob Dunn http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=939695ce85cf9719a5140b1619e4f994 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/21/exhausted-writer-discovers-first-cave-painting-of-yeast/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/21/exhausted-writer-discovers-first-cave-painting-of-yeast/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:55:00 Rob Dunn

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/21/exhausted-writer-discovers-first-cave-painting-of-yeast/feed/ 3 @ScientificAmerican The Evolution of a Scientific American Information Graphic: Stellar Life Cycle Jen Christiansen http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=cb33914677d6de7dc98e2ee9e49513d9 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2012/02/21/the-evolution-of-a-scientific-american-information-graphic-stellar-life-cycle/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2012/02/21/the-evolution-of-a-scientific-american-information-graphic-stellar-life-cycle/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:30:30 Jen Christiansen

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2012/02/21/the-evolution-of-a-scientific-american-information-graphic-stellar-life-cycle/feed/ 1 Plugged In Guest Post: End Oil Subsidies? The $4 Billion Question Scott McNally http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6e49b2b6714bcf901444e6689a303912 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/21/guest-post-end-oil-subsidies-the-4-billion-question/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/21/guest-post-end-oil-subsidies-the-4-billion-question/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:51 Scott McNally small

By now, you have probably heard the call by democrats and environmentalists to “end the $4 billion in subsidies for big oil.” The five major oil companies that have a significant presence in the United States – Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP and Conoco – are some of the biggest businesses in America, and have some [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/21/guest-post-end-oil-subsidies-the-4-billion-question/feed/ 6 Guest Blog How Did Human Brains Get to Be so Big? Robin Anne Smith http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6fd529c31bb1e9e78db9b9de2db0e340 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/21/how-did-human-brains-get-to-be-so-big/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/21/how-did-human-brains-get-to-be-so-big/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:05:25 Robin Anne Smith

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/21/how-did-human-brains-get-to-be-so-big/feed/ 3 The Network Central #SciAmBlogs Monday – John Glenn, termite balls, Hamlet, volcanic symbolism, octopus vision, fungal farmers, and more. Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=3f747840b710584061047ce4f287b8c8 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/21/sciamblogs-monday-john-glenn-termite-balls-hamlet-volcanic-symbolism-octopus-vision-fungal-farmers-and-more/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/21/sciamblogs-monday-john-glenn-termite-balls-hamlet-volcanic-symbolism-octopus-vision-fungal-farmers-and-more/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:54:54 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/21/sciamblogs-monday-john-glenn-termite-balls-hamlet-volcanic-symbolism-octopus-vision-fungal-farmers-and-more/feed/ 0 Image of the Week Entangled Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=0f05651a1a9f1313ff6a18089004ad8c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2012/02/21/entangled/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2012/02/21/entangled/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:33:27 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2012/02/21/entangled/feed/ 0 Symbiartic Conservation Conversation in Clay Kalliopi Monoyios http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=58c77445695e67199375170997f676c7 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/02/21/science-art-interviews-kate-macdowell/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/02/21/science-art-interviews-kate-macdowell/#respond Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:04:52 Kalliopi Monoyios "Quiet as a mouse" by Kate MacDowell, 2011

"Quiet as a mouse" by Kate MacDowell, 2011

One of the most fascinating aspects of art is that two artists can use the same exact materials and create vastly different works. Last week, I posted an interview with Heather Knight, an artist who creates abstract porcelain tiles inspired by nature’s patterns and textures. Today, I introduce Kate MacDowell, another artist working in unglazed [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/02/21/science-art-interviews-kate-macdowell/feed/ 0 Observations Hepatitis C Now Killing More Americans Than HIV Katherine Harmon http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=5a8e4a802bcce34e7823bb257f5d09b0 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/20/hepatitis-c-now-killing-more-americans-than-hiv/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/20/hepatitis-c-now-killing-more-americans-than-hiv/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:09:47 Katherine Harmon

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/20/hepatitis-c-now-killing-more-americans-than-hiv/feed/ 9 The Thoughtful Animal Desert Ants Are Better Than Most High School Students At Trigonometry Jason G. Goldman http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=cd7cbd65c2a60abb5e1781231e22000f http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/20/desert-ants-are-better-at-trigonometry-than-most-high-school-students/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/20/desert-ants-are-better-at-trigonometry-than-most-high-school-students/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:06:28 Jason G. Goldman Ant on stilts

This marks the 500th post in the history of The Thoughtful Animal! To mark the occasion, I thought I’d revise and repost the post that started it all. This wasn’t the first post I ever wrote, but it was the first post I wrote (back when I was blogging at WordPress) that got any sort [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/20/desert-ants-are-better-at-trigonometry-than-most-high-school-students/feed/ 6 Cross-Check Let’s Begin Talking about How to End Wars John Horgan http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=b84f6df567494c92b349dcb8e0324de1 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/02/20/lets-start-talking-about-whetherand-howwe-can-stop-waging-wars/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/02/20/lets-start-talking-about-whetherand-howwe-can-stop-waging-wars/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:45:28 John Horgan

Are you a war pessimist? Odds are you are. For almost a decade now, I’ve been asking people if they think war will ever end. I’ve surveyed thousands of people, young and old, liberal and conservative, hawks and doves, male and female. Almost nine times out of 10, the answer to my question is “No,” [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/02/20/lets-start-talking-about-whetherand-howwe-can-stop-waging-wars/feed/ 5 Guest Blog 5 Kinds of Fungus Discovered to Be Capable of Farming Animals! Rob Dunn http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=3c0dc91d4b91652d31f923feb66c613b http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/20/five-kinds-of-fungus-discovered-to-be-capable-of-farming-animals/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/20/five-kinds-of-fungus-discovered-to-be-capable-of-farming-animals/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:00:19 Rob Dunn

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/20/five-kinds-of-fungus-discovered-to-be-capable-of-farming-animals/feed/ 3 Octopus Chronicles Polarized Display Sheds Light on Octopus and Cuttlefish Vision–and Camouflage Katherine Harmon http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=ca8d617a25d1cf71cf4177848ec950b6 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/02/20/polarized-display-sheds-light-on-octopus-and-cuttlefish-vision-and-camouflage/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/02/20/polarized-display-sheds-light-on-octopus-and-cuttlefish-vision-and-camouflage/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:45:32 Katherine Harmon

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/02/20/polarized-display-sheds-light-on-octopus-and-cuttlefish-vision-and-camouflage/feed/ 0 PsiVid This Week’s Monday Music Video: Gettin’ Triggy Wit It Carin Bondar http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=33c3f79b30871d3a6f2fb1f02f1b6436 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2012/02/20/this-weeks-monday-music-video-gettin-triggy-wit-it/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2012/02/20/this-weeks-monday-music-video-gettin-triggy-wit-it/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:19:39 Carin Bondar

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2012/02/20/this-weeks-monday-music-video-gettin-triggy-wit-it/feed/ 1 Guest Blog John Glenn: The Man Behind the Hero Amy Shira Teitel http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6a877af7fe019a614e49465ddd499c5c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/20/john-glenn-orbiting-the-earth-on-this-day-sixty-years-ago/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/20/john-glenn-orbiting-the-earth-on-this-day-sixty-years-ago/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:00:17 Amy Shira Teitel

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/20/john-glenn-orbiting-the-earth-on-this-day-sixty-years-ago/feed/ 1 The Scicurious Brain Using BDNF to predict antidepressant response Scicurious http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=0adb4333fce4cb257ad49e7127a388a5 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/20/using-bdnf-to-predict-antidepressant-response/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/20/using-bdnf-to-predict-antidepressant-response/#respond Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:59:15 Scicurious serum bdnf1

There’s been a lot of talk recently about how antidepressants are not particularly effective. Either most people don’t respond, or when they DO respond, it’s placebo, or the side effects are too much. None of this is wrong, though I personally do not think the current antidepressants are quite as bleak as recent coverage is [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/20/using-bdnf-to-predict-antidepressant-response/feed/ 4 The Thoughtful Animal Sunday Photoblogging: Science and Art in Beverly Hills Jason G. Goldman http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=e03a3aa95740bb9e886272a0ae87ad9c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/19/sunday-photoblogging-science-and-art-in-beverly-hills/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/19/sunday-photoblogging-science-and-art-in-beverly-hills/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:00:31 Jason G. Goldman

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/19/sunday-photoblogging-science-and-art-in-beverly-hills/feed/ 0 Compound Eye Stock Photography Caters to Stereotypes Alex Wild http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=602f51823ce390425e7460aeaeda09ad http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/19/stock-photography-caters-to-stereotypes/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/19/stock-photography-caters-to-stereotypes/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:37:33 Alex Wild

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/19/stock-photography-caters-to-stereotypes/feed/ 3 History of Geology How Volcanoes became a Symbol for Revolution David Bressan http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=c78a768b311e1b26b90aff80c039c93e http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2012/02/19/how-volcanoes-became-a-symbol-for-revolution/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2012/02/19/how-volcanoes-became-a-symbol-for-revolution/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:36:33 David Bressan

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2012/02/19/how-volcanoes-became-a-symbol-for-revolution/feed/ 0 Lab Rat Holding elements together: Ionic bonds S.E. Gould http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=afa09540339552c4341e32d6f9aa9a5b http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2012/02/19/holding-elements-together-ionic-bonds/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2012/02/19/holding-elements-together-ionic-bonds/#respond Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:00:43 S.E. Gould ionic bond electron transfer

A while ago, I wrote a couple of posts describing some intra-molecular forces, forces that hold atoms and molecules together. I enjoyed writing them, and people come back to read them quite frequently, so I thought I’d continue and write about a couple more. The previous posts covered van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonds (and dipoles!) [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2012/02/19/holding-elements-together-ionic-bonds/feed/ 3 Tetrapod Zoology Identify the Baja California mystery whale carcass! Darren Naish http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=62ada7a2a3ef682a4f48dacdfbb980f6 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/02/18/identify-baja-california-mystery-whale-carcass/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/02/18/identify-baja-california-mystery-whale-carcass/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:03:57 Darren Naish

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/02/18/identify-baja-california-mystery-whale-carcass/feed/ 15 Literally Psyched Hamlet and the Power of Beliefs to Shape Reality Maria Konnikova http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=839e0d60f3a656b39330f960a052c436 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/02/18/hamlet-and-the-power-of-beliefs-to-shape-reality/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/02/18/hamlet-and-the-power-of-beliefs-to-shape-reality/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:56:54 Maria Konnikova Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, By Lafayette Photo, London [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, By Lafayette Photo, London [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Writing at the close of the nineteenth century, William James, the father of modern psychology (and Henry’s brother), observed that, “Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the objects around us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own head.” We now know that [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/02/18/hamlet-and-the-power-of-beliefs-to-shape-reality/feed/ 0 Guest Blog By Looking Carefully, Japanese Scientist Discovers the Secrets of Termite Balls Rob Dunn http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=d92d262dcb0e0055efe81b061cc401d4 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/18/by-looking-carefully-japanese-scientist-discovers-the-secrets-of-termite-balls/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/18/by-looking-carefully-japanese-scientist-discovers-the-secrets-of-termite-balls/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:00:41 Rob Dunn

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/18/by-looking-carefully-japanese-scientist-discovers-the-secrets-of-termite-balls/feed/ 1 Observations Fracking Could Work If Industry Would Come Clean Mark Fischetti http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=3244613b7b2aeb45b60520980ebb9fcc http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/18/fracking-could-work-if-industry-would-come-clean/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/18/fracking-could-work-if-industry-would-come-clean/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:02:21 Mark Fischetti

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/18/fracking-could-work-if-industry-would-come-clean/feed/ 20 The Network Central #SciAmBlogs Friday – Citizens’ Agenda, Tasmanian Devils, dropout electrons, wine & Beer, snails that fly and more. Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=c7a3b3c0554d7987e7de34ee25a067b0 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/18/sciamblogs-friday-citizens-agenda-tasmanian-devils-dropout-electrons-wine-beer-snails-that-fly-and-more/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/18/sciamblogs-friday-citizens-agenda-tasmanian-devils-dropout-electrons-wine-beer-snails-that-fly-and-more/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:50:09 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/18/sciamblogs-friday-citizens-agenda-tasmanian-devils-dropout-electrons-wine-beer-snails-that-fly-and-more/feed/ 0 Observations What Processed Food Looks Like during Digestion–of Course It’s Not Pretty [Video] Philip Yam http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=88909ca86758ddabaa2576d7bd2b202e http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/what-processed-food-looks-like-during-digestionof-course-its-not-pretty-video/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/what-processed-food-looks-like-during-digestionof-course-its-not-pretty-video/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:30:22 Philip Yam

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/what-processed-food-looks-like-during-digestionof-course-its-not-pretty-video/feed/ 7 Budding Scientist Parents Play a Crucial Role in Building Kids’ Interest in Science and Math Anna Kuchment http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=15f626d4f4b55a261b1a28115eaf1cd9 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/budding-scientist/2012/02/17/parents-play-a-crucial-role-in-building-kids-interest-in-science-and-math/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/budding-scientist/2012/02/17/parents-play-a-crucial-role-in-building-kids-interest-in-science-and-math/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:32:02 Anna Kuchment

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/budding-scientist/2012/02/17/parents-play-a-crucial-role-in-building-kids-interest-in-science-and-math/feed/ 5 Observations Fermilab Set to Reveal “Interesting” Higgs Boson Results Michael Moyer http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=c18158b318f97cf7e131e2837dcd1016 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/fermilab-set-to-reveal-interesting-higgs-boson-results/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/fermilab-set-to-reveal-interesting-higgs-boson-results/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:00:19 Michael Moyer

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/fermilab-set-to-reveal-interesting-higgs-boson-results/feed/ 9 The Artful Amoeba TGIF: Snails that Fly, or, the Potato Chips of the Ocean Jennifer Frazer http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=386112010dcf1abaa2e5e91df82a3338 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2012/02/17/tgif-snails-that-fly-or-the-potato-chips-of-the-ocean/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2012/02/17/tgif-snails-that-fly-or-the-potato-chips-of-the-ocean/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:59:25 Jennifer Frazer sea_butterfly_200

On land, snails and slugs — the Gastropods — are confined to terrestrial prison, but in the ocean, they are free to shed their shells and fly. These are the sea angels, the sea butterflies, and the sea elephants — and probably quite a few more I’m not aware of. For instance, this slinky and [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2012/02/17/tgif-snails-that-fly-or-the-potato-chips-of-the-ocean/feed/ 1 Observations Eternal Sunshine Drug Points the Way Toward Counteracting the Agony of Chronic Pain Gary Stix http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=78099b147d512c242ba1079450ef2776 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/eternal-sunshine-drug-points-the-way-toward-counteracting-the-agony-of-chronic-pain/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/eternal-sunshine-drug-points-the-way-toward-counteracting-the-agony-of-chronic-pain/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:50:12 Gary Stix

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/eternal-sunshine-drug-points-the-way-toward-counteracting-the-agony-of-chronic-pain/feed/ 4 @ScientificAmerican Scientific American Mind Is Now on Facebook Sandra Upson http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=d1a9b1e028623b87c1485e16ddb5b7dc http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2012/02/17/scientific-american-mind-is-now-on-facebook/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2012/02/17/scientific-american-mind-is-now-on-facebook/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:25:42 Sandra Upson

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2012/02/17/scientific-american-mind-is-now-on-facebook/feed/ 1 Guest Blog Strong Medicine: Drinking Wine and Beer Can Help Save You from Cholera, Montezuma’s Revenge, E. Coli and Ulcers 1 Rob Dunn http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=44cbf43c4e4d3415eeec359ede6b85ca http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/17/strong-medicine-drinking-wine-and-beer-can-help-save-you-from-cholera-montezumas-revenge-e-coli-and-ulcers1/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/17/strong-medicine-drinking-wine-and-beer-can-help-save-you-from-cholera-montezumas-revenge-e-coli-and-ulcers1/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:48:40 Rob Dunn

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/17/strong-medicine-drinking-wine-and-beer-can-help-save-you-from-cholera-montezumas-revenge-e-coli-and-ulcers1/feed/ 2 Basic Space ‘Dropout’ Electrons Get Pushed out of Van Allen Belt Kelly Oakes http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=f10d36255883790e635459a0b173db92 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/2012/02/17/dropout-electrons-get-pushed-out-of-van-allen-belt/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/2012/02/17/dropout-electrons-get-pushed-out-of-van-allen-belt/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:12:21 Kelly Oakes

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/2012/02/17/dropout-electrons-get-pushed-out-of-van-allen-belt/feed/ 0 Observations Contagious Cancer: Genome Study Reveals How Tasmanian Devil Cancer Has Spread Katherine Harmon http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=d5c809ede4002900703fef5a3597e4a4 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/contagious-cancer-genome-study-reveals-how-tasmanian-devil-cancer-has-spread/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/contagious-cancer-genome-study-reveals-how-tasmanian-devil-cancer-has-spread/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:27:36 Katherine Harmon

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/contagious-cancer-genome-study-reveals-how-tasmanian-devil-cancer-has-spread/feed/ 4 Observations Can We Ask Presidential Candidates about Science? Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=81771ccddbbaff84d7d13c618ba0f27c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/can-we-ask-presidential-candidates-about-science/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/can-we-ask-presidential-candidates-about-science/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:56:29 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/can-we-ask-presidential-candidates-about-science/feed/ 7 Observations Color-Coding Ants [Video] Eric R. Olson http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=7678e7a4ee4c14d4357ecc314ee28263 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/color-coding-ants/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/color-coding-ants/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:24 Eric R. Olson

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/17/color-coding-ants/feed/ 0 The Scicurious Brain Friday Weird Science: Millipedes “talking” dirty. Scicurious http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=9e9604ca2d21120a65651190c07b30f8 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/17/friday-weird-science-millipedes-talking-dirty/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/17/friday-weird-science-millipedes-talking-dirty/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:41:28 Scicurious

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/17/friday-weird-science-millipedes-talking-dirty/feed/ 0 The Network Central #SciAmBlogs Thursday – thinking like a doctor, explaining climate change, drunk fruitflies, nomadic planets, DNA nanorobots and more. Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6dd78b6cc3f3c7957a229053aa409bdf http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/sciamblogs-thinking-like-a-doctor-explaining-climate-change-drunk-ftuitflies-hip-hop-evolution-nomadic-planets-dna-nanorobots-and-more/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/sciamblogs-thinking-like-a-doctor-explaining-climate-change-drunk-ftuitflies-hip-hop-evolution-nomadic-planets-dna-nanorobots-and-more/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:28:42 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/sciamblogs-thinking-like-a-doctor-explaining-climate-change-drunk-ftuitflies-hip-hop-evolution-nomadic-planets-dna-nanorobots-and-more/feed/ 0 Thoughtomics Did life evolve in a ‘warm little pond’? Lucas Brouwers http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=27113b7ecf7dad82ffb598a0ad0962b2 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/02/16/did-life-evolve-in-a-warm-little-pond/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/02/16/did-life-evolve-in-a-warm-little-pond/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:28:52 Lucas Brouwers Geothermal field near Mutnovsky, Kamtchatka. Copyright Anna S. Karyagina

Geothermal field near Mutnovsky, Kamtchatka. Copyright Anna S. Karyagina

“But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity etcetera present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes [..] ” ~Charles Darwin, in a letter to Joseph Hooker (1871) All [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/02/16/did-life-evolve-in-a-warm-little-pond/feed/ 6 Oscillator DNA Nanorobots Christina Agapakis http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=d98819dff232ed3a16b8df6646a900df http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/02/16/dna-nanorobots/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/02/16/dna-nanorobots/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:06:48 Christina Agapakis

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/02/16/dna-nanorobots/feed/ 0 Observations Robot Rocket Knows When to Fly, When to Hover [Video] John Matson http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=519476e627e97a0d1e4d09249754d64e http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/16/robot-rocket-knows-when-to-fly-when-to-hover-video/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/16/robot-rocket-knows-when-to-fly-when-to-hover-video/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:47:34 John Matson

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/16/robot-rocket-knows-when-to-fly-when-to-hover-video/feed/ 1 Life, Unbounded Nomadic Planets May Make Pit Stops Caleb A. Scharf http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=2c185271b6f1768f9b5b1d72d2a34ef5 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/02/16/nomadic-planets-may-make-pitstops/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/02/16/nomadic-planets-may-make-pitstops/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:36:10 Caleb A. Scharf crop_rogue

The notion of what constitutes a typical planetary system has undergone some serious revision in the past twenty years. Our own solar system, once seen as a timeless and almost mechanical entity, is now known to be on the margins of chaos. Long term modeling of its dynamical evolution suggests that orbits of an inner [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/02/16/nomadic-planets-may-make-pitstops/feed/ 3 The Urban Scientist Hip Hop Evolution Files: Heritable Traits vs. Inherited Traits DNLee http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=f02e416509742be8e8c6230376a0157c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/16/hip-hop-evolution-files-heritable-traits-vs-inherited-traits/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/16/hip-hop-evolution-files-heritable-traits-vs-inherited-traits/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:23:39 DNLee

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/16/hip-hop-evolution-files-heritable-traits-vs-inherited-traits/feed/ 0 Doing Good Science I am science, and so can you! Janet D. Stemwedel http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=33c09ad869e31557c89cc34e72b3eaf6 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2012/02/16/i-am-science-and-so-can-you/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2012/02/16/i-am-science-and-so-can-you/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:09:17 Janet D. Stemwedel composite-square-01

Following up on my post yesterday about my own journey with science, I wanted to offer some words of encouragement to those who are still in the early stages of their own journey. I was prompted to write them by Dr. Isis, as part of her excellent and inspiring Letters to Our Daughters Project. Dr. [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2012/02/16/i-am-science-and-so-can-you/feed/ 0 Anthropology in Practice Editor’s Selections: Sharky speedos, Local language, and Suburban livin’ Krystal D'Costa http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=30be63a669493f317e4b1ef61f960be7 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/2012/02/16/editors-selections-sharky-speedos-local-language-and-suburban-livin/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/2012/02/16/editors-selections-sharky-speedos-local-language-and-suburban-livin/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:00:57 Krystal D'Costa

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/2012/02/16/editors-selections-sharky-speedos-local-language-and-suburban-livin/feed/ 0 Guest Blog Fruit Flies Use Alcohol to Self-Medicate, but Feel Bad about it Afterwards Rob Dunn http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=97cca097cf98e919213bf2d1b1e610df http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/16/fruit-flies-use-alcohol-to-self-medicate-but-feel-bad-about-it-afterwards/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/16/fruit-flies-use-alcohol-to-self-medicate-but-feel-bad-about-it-afterwards/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:58:13 Rob Dunn

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/16/fruit-flies-use-alcohol-to-self-medicate-but-feel-bad-about-it-afterwards/feed/ 1 Compound Eye Thrifty Thursday: Grasshopper, disassembled Alex Wild http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=3fa6fb07c97a71242944c0d888c89876 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/16/thrifty-thursday-grasshopper-disassembled/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/16/thrifty-thursday-grasshopper-disassembled/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:39:46 Alex Wild

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/16/thrifty-thursday-grasshopper-disassembled/feed/ 1 Plugged In Guest Post: Rick Santorum and Climate Change Scott McNally http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=7036b110b1e5781aec48f7fd9ad3a362 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/16/guest-post-rick-santorum-and-climate-change/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/16/guest-post-rick-santorum-and-climate-change/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:00:04 Scott McNally earthnoatmosphere

How to Explain Climate Change to a Skeptic Rick Santorum has recently described climate change as a hoax – a bunch of “bogus” science that tries to make nature’s normal “boom and bust” cycle into something man-made. His comments illustrate how, despite the fact that the scientific community accepts climate change as truth, and despite [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/16/guest-post-rick-santorum-and-climate-change/feed/ 24 The Network Central Welcome Unofficial Prognosis – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6464fff336f3371f8ea0b965f4e66c62 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/welcome-unofficial-prognosis-the-newest-blog-at-sciamblogs/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/welcome-unofficial-prognosis-the-newest-blog-at-sciamblogs/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:42:02 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/welcome-unofficial-prognosis-the-newest-blog-at-sciamblogs/feed/ 0 The Thoughtful Animal Book Review: Babel’s Dawn Jason G. Goldman http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=f2d6ef6aa58c12d7f795fcc8384bd55c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/16/book-review-babels-dawn/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/16/book-review-babels-dawn/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:00:22 Jason G. Goldman

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/16/book-review-babels-dawn/feed/ 1 Unofficial Prognosis How (not) to think like a doctor Ilana Yurkiewicz http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=0a3e5b857c8431b0f796db03adffcccd http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/02/16/how-not-to-think-like-a-doctor-2/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/02/16/how-not-to-think-like-a-doctor-2/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:57:45 Ilana Yurkiewicz Thinking

On our first day of physiology, our professor showed us a picture of an elephant. He let us look at it for several seconds and then asked: what is this? On the next slide, he put up a chest X-ray. We stared for a few more seconds and were then asked: what’s the diagnosis? He was [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/2012/02/16/how-not-to-think-like-a-doctor-2/feed/ 0 The Network Central #SciAmBlogs Wednesday – blizzards, beer, landfills, snails, bacteria and more… Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=921459b0761cbca509289b78a43c79a0 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/sciamblogs-wednesday-blizzards-beer-landfills-snails-bacteria-and-more/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/sciamblogs-wednesday-blizzards-beer-landfills-snails-bacteria-and-more/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:14:07 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/16/sciamblogs-wednesday-blizzards-beer-landfills-snails-bacteria-and-more/feed/ 0 Video of the Week The Landfill Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=0884a6300b70e6ef9028d5da5cb793e8 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/02/16/the-landfill/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/02/16/the-landfill/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:03:47 Bora Zivkovic

Video of the Week #30 February 15th, 2012 The Landfill | Jessica Edwards & Gary Hustwit from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. From: Short film dives into landfill gas by David Wogan at Plugged In. Source: The Landfill by documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit and director Jessica Edwards. This week’s video is by documentary filmmaker Gary [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/video-of-the-week/2012/02/16/the-landfill/feed/ 0 Extinction Countdown Meet the Pangolin, Another Animal Threatened by Traditional Asian Medicine John R. Platt http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=0c8ccbc387a214ae1dbe2c67b3eb476c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/16/meet-pangolin-threatened-traditional-asian-medicine/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/16/meet-pangolin-threatened-traditional-asian-medicine/#respond Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:40 John R. Platt

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/16/meet-pangolin-threatened-traditional-asian-medicine/feed/ 1 Doing Good Science I am science … or am I? Janet D. Stemwedel http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=10b968c850e79a6077fdf49cbd4cf127 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2012/02/15/i-am-science-or-am-i/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2012/02/15/i-am-science-or-am-i/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:30 Janet D. Stemwedel composite-square-02

Kevin Zelnio kicked it off on Twitter with a hashtag, and then wrote a blog post that shared the details of his personal journey with science. Lots of folks have followed suit and shared their stories, too — so many that I can’t even begin to link them without leaving something wonderful out. (Search the [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2012/02/15/i-am-science-or-am-i/feed/ 3 Extinction Countdown U.S. Army Protects Critically Endangered Hawaiian Snails from Invasive Predators John R. Platt http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=d21843853587f9a8a80edc3f0d2597f5 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/15/army-protects-endangered-hawaiian-snails-invasive-predators/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/15/army-protects-endangered-hawaiian-snails-invasive-predators/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:55:17 John R. Platt

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2012/02/15/army-protects-endangered-hawaiian-snails-invasive-predators/feed/ 7 Observations Quantum Entanglement Experiments Expand to Include 8 Photons John Matson http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=bafe258a355a050ac1e58d1b902ee14f http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/15/quantum-entanglement-experiments-expand-to-include-eight-photons/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/15/quantum-entanglement-experiments-expand-to-include-eight-photons/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:09:56 John Matson

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/15/quantum-entanglement-experiments-expand-to-include-eight-photons/feed/ 18 Guest Blog A Sip for the Ancestors: The True Story of Civilization’s Stumbling Debt to Beer and Fungus Rob Dunn http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=8b7458822cf52a05c1e711a1a6231cfd http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/15/a-sip-for-the-ancestors-the-true-story-of-civilizations-stumbling-debt-to-beer-and-fungus/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/15/a-sip-for-the-ancestors-the-true-story-of-civilizations-stumbling-debt-to-beer-and-fungus/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:39 Rob Dunn

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/15/a-sip-for-the-ancestors-the-true-story-of-civilizations-stumbling-debt-to-beer-and-fungus/feed/ 0 Disease Prone The bacteria in your belly Pt.1 – Babies James Byrne http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=b9d648d96960b0019073f799cd558d38 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/2012/02/15/the-bacteria-in-your-belly-pt-1-babies/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/disease-prone/2012/02/15/the-bacteria-in-your-belly-pt-1-babies/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:00:48 James Byrne

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]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/02/15/depression-and-blood-pressure/feed/ 0 Guest Blog Blizzard! Explained. Matthew Sturm http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=355fbf4929084778a849f051d60c04b4 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/15/blizzard-explained/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/15/blizzard-explained/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:51:55 Matthew Sturm

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/15/blizzard-explained/feed/ 1 Lab Rat Plants that shut out bacterial invaders S.E. Gould http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=7d6480a1c462f99b237379a099909f11 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2012/02/15/plants-that-shut-out-bacterial-invaders/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2012/02/15/plants-that-shut-out-bacterial-invaders/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:47:42 S.E. Gould A stoma! The two curved things surrounding it are the two cells that control the opening. The small oval-shaped middle bit is the stoma - a hole in the cells covering the leaf.

A stoma! The two curved things surrounding it are the two cells that control the opening. The small oval-shaped middle bit is the stoma - a hole in the cells covering the leaf.

I have a soft-spot for plant biology. In my final year at university, having exhausted all of the bacteria-related biochemistry lectures, I took a bacteria-related lecture course with the plants department. It was a smaller department, and seemed a lot friendlier and nicer. Also the biscuits in the tea-room were cheaper. So I do like to write about [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2012/02/15/plants-that-shut-out-bacterial-invaders/feed/ 0 Plugged In Short film dives into landfill gas David Wogan http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=fae1548550ef3ec3f422e4cbc55e6499 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/15/short-film-dives-into-landfill-gas/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/15/short-film-dives-into-landfill-gas/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:43:38 David Wogan

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/02/15/short-film-dives-into-landfill-gas/feed/ 0 The Urban Scientist Wordless Wednesday: This is what scientists look like DNLee http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=80024e573d22c02ad38e01ad0aa9ecd6 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/15/wordless-wednesday-this-is-what-scientists-look-like/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/15/wordless-wednesday-this-is-what-scientists-look-like/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:00:10 DNLee Field palpating female

Like this! Once upon a time, you could go into a classroom – any grade level, any age, anywhere in the US – and ask children to describe what a scientist looks like. Almost invariably, most children would present an illustration of an older white male, with white hair, a mustache and/or beard wearing a [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/15/wordless-wednesday-this-is-what-scientists-look-like/feed/ 0 The Network Central #SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Science of Love, Higgs, climate-caused migrations, DIY GMO foods, and more. Bora Zivkovic http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=ebc85ba40935c6d6eaddbdc96734c3dd http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/15/sciamblogs-tuesday-science-of-love-higgs-climate-caused-migrations-diy-gmo-foods-and-more/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/15/sciamblogs-tuesday-science-of-love-higgs-climate-caused-migrations-diy-gmo-foods-and-more/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:20:54 Bora Zivkovic

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/2012/02/15/sciamblogs-tuesday-science-of-love-higgs-climate-caused-migrations-diy-gmo-foods-and-more/feed/ 0 Science Sushi Who said cells aren’t romantic? Christie Wilcox http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=15cb47f711571f7a23ab1b35ed649b5e http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2012/02/14/who-said-cells-arent-romantic/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2012/02/14/who-said-cells-arent-romantic/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:11:18 Christie Wilcox

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2012/02/14/who-said-cells-arent-romantic/feed/ 0 Observations MRI Reveals Mysteries inside Batteries for Gadgets and Electric Cars Larry Greenemeier http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=f26929f51954c090f1ff77ab5ac1d21c http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/14/mri-reveals-mysteries-inside-batteries-for-gadgets-and-electric-cars/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/14/mri-reveals-mysteries-inside-batteries-for-gadgets-and-electric-cars/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:46 Larry Greenemeier

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/14/mri-reveals-mysteries-inside-batteries-for-gadgets-and-electric-cars/feed/ 4 Symbiartic SciArt of the Heart Kalliopi Monoyios http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=137dfc4a749a7879ab1deaebd2472cc2 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/02/14/sciart-of-the-heart/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/02/14/sciart-of-the-heart/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:43:54 Kalliopi Monoyios 12-007FEATURE

Happy Valentine’s Day from Symbiartic!

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/02/14/sciart-of-the-heart/feed/ 0 The Thoughtful Animal Editor’s Selections: Valentine’s Day Edition Jason G. Goldman http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=52759fa4045fa3255c1633974ad3685f http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/14/editors-selections-valentines-day-edition/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/14/editors-selections-valentines-day-edition/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:15:45 Jason G. Goldman

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/02/14/editors-selections-valentines-day-edition/feed/ 0 Bering in Mind Autistic Savants: Geniuses of Obscure Devotions Jesse Bering http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=24ea390f26ad9b4588573a3db4fa0b60 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2012/02/14/geniuses-of-obscure-devotions/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2012/02/14/geniuses-of-obscure-devotions/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:00:37 Jesse Bering

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2012/02/14/geniuses-of-obscure-devotions/feed/ 1 Compound Eye This Photo Is Not Free, But How Much Should It Cost? Alex Wild http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6ead1f8f44469045ab3100bdc6980b92 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/14/this-photo-is-not-free-but-how-much-should-it-cost/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/14/this-photo-is-not-free-but-how-much-should-it-cost/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:37:34 Alex Wild triatoma_money1f

In January, landscape photographer John Mueller sparked a lengthy debate about the economics of art with a simple observation: It cost me $6,612 to take this photo. $12 in gas to go from work to this spot and then home. The camera I took this with cost $2500. The lens was another $1600. The Singh Ray [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2012/02/14/this-photo-is-not-free-but-how-much-should-it-cost/feed/ 9 Streams of Consciousness Success in 7 Short Steps Ingrid Wickelgren http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=c262b0222aa000cb77be9a68690977df http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2012/02/14/success-in-seven-short-steps/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2012/02/14/success-in-seven-short-steps/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:33:25 Ingrid Wickelgren

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/streams-of-consciousness/2012/02/14/success-in-seven-short-steps/feed/ 2 Oscillator How To Genetically Modify Yogurt Christina Agapakis http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=6a63fa1f9cad6583ee7897df6ca9e92f http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/02/14/how-to-genetically-modify-yogurt/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/02/14/how-to-genetically-modify-yogurt/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:21:59 Christina Agapakis

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/2012/02/14/how-to-genetically-modify-yogurt/feed/ 0 Guest Blog People Displaced by Climate Change Need Our Help, But So Do Those Who Cannot Leave Sir John Beddington http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=f688b574852201d62acbc7871922a32d http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/14/people-displaced-by-climate-change-need-our-help-but-so-do-those-who-cannot-leave/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/14/people-displaced-by-climate-change-need-our-help-but-so-do-those-who-cannot-leave/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:19:01 Sir John Beddington

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/02/14/people-displaced-by-climate-change-need-our-help-but-so-do-those-who-cannot-leave/feed/ 9 The White Noise All you need is love: the neurochemical jolt and obsession Cassie Rodenberg http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=20e7daed8984a16233411f113eb55935 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/14/all-you-need-is-love-the-neurochemical-jolt-and-obsession/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/14/all-you-need-is-love-the-neurochemical-jolt-and-obsession/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:56:01 Cassie Rodenberg Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, moi meme

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, moi meme

Love is maddening and inconvenient and exhilarating and wonderful. We often feel overwhelmed by it, heart pounding, “head over heels,” “crazy in love.” But how much is too much? And what’s the difference between feelings of normal love and desire, and love addiction? Where, exactly, is the line? For years I’ve known a woman we’ll [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/white-noise/2012/02/14/all-you-need-is-love-the-neurochemical-jolt-and-obsession/feed/ 0 Crude Matter Chemistry teachers: Request a free chemistry activity kit from ACS Michelle Clement http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=83f94b3e6ba05182220e59a568650a58 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/crude-matter/2012/02/14/free-chemistry-kit-acs/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/crude-matter/2012/02/14/free-chemistry-kit-acs/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:00:29 Michelle Clement

The following is an e-mail I received from the ACS Kids & Chemistry Program Manager. I’m re-posting it here to spread the word. If you know any chemistry school teachers who might benefit from this program, please forward them the relevant info. With the support of a grant from the National Science Foundation and the [...]

]]> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/crude-matter/2012/02/14/free-chemistry-kit-acs/feed/ 0 The Urban Scientist Roger Arliner Young, Zoologist DNLee http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=10cb305eb179365b1a4c2e19b2928b05 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/14/roger-arliner-young-zoologist/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2012/02/14/roger-arliner-young-zoologist/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:41:30 DNLee Roger_Arliner_Young

In celebration of Black History Month, I will be sharing stories about the African-American experience in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). For today’s feature, I am sharing a post previously published at Urban Science Adventures! ©. Dr. Roger Arliner Young was the first African-American Woman to earn a doctorate in Zoology. [...]

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