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'Work in Progress' blogger Jessica Wapner has a new book out on May 14 -- Click to watch the book trailer
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sethmnookin: "Fox 8," new $1 ebook by George Saunders, "is an immigrant story, told through an animal's eyes," says @GQMagazine http://t.co/GYZsimEsvF
EmilyAnthes: Disturbing developments at the grocery store http://t.co/XrrrHxmaj6
TravisSaunders: @cspenn Really hope they don't try to autocomplete searches with this... picturing an angry robot voice trying to finish all my sentences
hillaryrosner: Bizarre. RT @wunderground: Tornado Warning for Columbia and Dutchess Counties in NY until 6:00 PM EDT http://t.co/w5nDsnhDWQ
stevesilberman: German software giant to hire hundreds of people w/autism to drive innovation. http://t.co/nUZzOh9GKP
daniel_lende: Guns on the Brain http://t.co/wB7HSICEBu Embodied cognition and how holding a gun in hand interacts with emotion & environmental perception
mfenner: RT @datadryad: Starting soon: the Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium #nfdp13 in Oxford online at http://t.co/I9bJhqRxjY #openscien…
MrEpid: Does anyone have an article that cites youth physical activity guidelines in various countries? cc @TravisSaunders @chetm12 @Taryn_PhD
BethSkw: At @CarnegieMNH with @hiwearespiders http://t.co/FMJxfzlZMK
Jason_Reads: RT @parisreview: “Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.”—Italo Calvino http…
jeancflanagan: My new Sci-Ed piece on evolution education - Learning to read the tree of life - http://t.co/1njM6ML6Q0
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Category: Ethics, Journalism
Tagged BBC, Ed Yong, Higgs boson, Ian Sample, Jonah Lehrer, plagiarism, The Guardian
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Download the (e-book) Universe
Category: science communication
Tagged Annalee Newitz, Brian Switek, Carl Zimmer, David Dobbs, Download the Universe, Ed Yong, Eric Michael Johnson, Jennifer Ouellete, John Hawks, John Timmer, Maggie Koerth-Baker, Maia Svalavitz, Sean Carroll, Steve Silberman, The Elements, tom levenson
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Calling Dr. Kane
Category: arsenic, chemistry
Tagged aliens, arsenic, arsenic-based lifeforms, bacteria, Carl Zimmer, Dave Munger, David Duchovny, Ed Yong, evolution, Mono Lake, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Not Exactly Rocket Science, Orlando Jones, ResearchBlogging.org, Seed, Slate, The Period Table of the Elements
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