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13.7: Physics Vs. Philosophy: Really?
3 Quarks Daily: In the Kingdom of Decay
Above the Market: We Suck at Math
Accidental Blogger: Psychology's Quest for Scientific Respectability
Aetiology: Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS): history and implications
Alien Plantation: Agave de Mayo
Amy Shira Teitel: Was NASA’s First Launch Delay its Most Significant?
Antimatter: A tribute to Stephen Hawking
Astrobites: Let’s Lasso Us Some Space Rocks: Asteroid Mining And You
Astrobites: The WISE way to deal with 2.7 million images: a public data release
Astrobites: This star lives in exciting times, or, How did Betelgeuse make that funny shape?
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Red Aurora Over Australia
Azimuth: Information Geometry
Backreaction: The hunt for the first exoplanet
Baloon Juice: I’m Shocked! Shocked To Find That There Are Neutrinos Going On Here
Basic Space: Supernova turns inside out and kicks neutron star
Beach Chair Scientist: An important call for more forage fish to remain in the sea
Big in Science: Why Your Next Doctor May Be A Computer
Boing Boing: What Fukushima can teach us about coal pollution
Boundary Vision: Do scientific explanations have to ruin wonder? Stargazing and more with songwriter Jim Fitzpatrick
Cedar's Digest: Purple Doesn’t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online
Context and Variation: Vaginal pH Redux: Broader Perspectives on Douching, Race… and Lime Juice
Cool Physics: Einstein, Darwin & the 21st Century...
Cosmology Science Blog: Cosmic Microwave Angular Resolution Surprise
Cosmology Science Blog: Observation of two early yet mature galaxies: Rare objects or is Big Bang model inaccurate?
Delfikorakle: Pizza and Panini
Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The "size" of evolutionary change, and why it matters
Disease Prone: Antibiotics with a side of steak
Do the Math: Can Economic Growth Last?
Doing Good Science: Methodology versus beliefs: What did Marcus Ross do wrong?
Don't Mind the Mess: The Whole Truth About Autism
Double X Science: From alchemist to chemist: What kind of chemistry is that?
Double X Science: Pregnancy 101: Peas made me puke, but not just in the morning
Double X Science: Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart?
Double X Science: The path from science to alarmism: How science gets twisted before it gets to you
Eastern Blot: Make history, not vitamin C
Empirical Zeal: The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains
Empirical Zeal: What it feels like for a sperm, or how to get around when you are really, really small
Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.
Eruptions: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Die When You Fall Into Lava
From the Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change
Gaines, On Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of déjà vu
Galileo's Pendulum: Is Cosmology in Shambles?
Good Thinking: Mammograms and PSA Tests: What Your Doctor Needs to Tell You
If We Assume: Plots as Art
Information Processing: "Only he was fully awake"
Inkfish: Life Advice: Think More about Death
Inspiring Science: Through the gut: how plants in food regulate genes in animals
Katie Ph.D.: What exactly is a genetically modified plant?
Not Exactly Rocket Science: A world within a tumour – new study shows just how complex cancer can be
Nottingham Science Blog: Interview : Prof Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca
Of Particular Significance: What’s a Proton, Anyway?
Percolator: Birds Lose Their Magnetic Maps as Scientists Reverse Direction
Physics Buzz Blog: Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
Puff the Mutant Dragon: Do vaccines contain toxic chemicals?
Quantum Diaries: Helicity, Chirality, Mass, and the Higgs
Resonaances: How to make a line
Science Sushi: Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture
Science Sushi: Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds
Scientific American: Why Is Memory So Good and So Bad?
Scientific American Guest Blog: Catalytic Clothing–Purifying Air Goes Trendy
Scientific American Guest Blog: Reflections on biology and motherhood: Where does Homo sapiens fit in?
Scientific American Guest Blog: The educational value of creative disobedience
Scientific American Guest Blog: Too Good to Be True: Sea Mammals, Plastic Pollution and a Modern Chimera
Scientific American Guest Blog: Trayvon Martin’s Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren’t There
Scientific American Guest Blog: Your Appendix Could Save Your Life
Sentence First: "Who to follow" is grammatically fine
Shtetl-Optimized: My visit to D-Wave: Beyond the roast-beef sandwich
Side Effects: Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome: Findings, Recommendations, and Resources
Skulls in the Stars: The secret molecular life of soap bubbles (1913)
Southern Fried Science: Climbing Mount Chernobyl
Starts With A Bang!: So, you’ve learned that the Sun is going to explode…
Starts With A Bang!: The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe
Starts With A Bang!: Why is there something instead of nothing?
Talk Nerdy To Me: My Evening With Stephen Hawking
The Beast, the Bard, and the Bot: Are Humans Still Evolving?
The Crux: What Is the “Bible of Psychiatry” Supposed to Do? The Peculiar Challenges of an Uncertain Science
The Dayside: Sine-wave speech recognition in Mandarin
The Hammock Physicist: Einstein Got It Wrong, Can You Do Better?
The Loom: Neanderthal Neuroscience
The Mermaid's Tale: Forget bipedalism. What about babyism?
The Neurocritic: Little Evidence for a Direct Link between PTSD and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
The Neurocritic: The Disconnection of Psychopaths
The Primate Diaries: Freedom to Riot: On the Evolution of Collective Violence
The Scorpion and the Frog: Decisions, Decisions
The Scorpion and the Frog: Snakes Deceive to Get a Little Snuggle
The Scorpion and the Frog: The Love Hormone of 2012
The Scorpion and the Frog: Why This Horde of Idiots is No Genius
The Sky's the Limit: Saturn's Rings Explained...
The Spectrum of Riemannium: Time of Flight
The Stochastic Scientist: Carbon monoxide as therapy?
The Thoughtful Animal: Can You Hear Me Now? Human Noise Disrupts Blue Whale Communication
The Thoughtful Animal: Contagious Yawning: Evidence of Empathy?
The Thoughtful Animal: Four Loko Is Just Like The Copenhagen Philharmonic
The Thoughtful Animal: Hyenas Give Up Eating Garbage for Lent, Hunt Donkeys Instead
The Thoughtful Animal: Music and Memory: Robert Sherman, Voice of Your Childhood, Dies at 86
The Trenches of Discovery: The War of the Immune Worlds
Theobrominated: How can a flower like this exist?
Three-toed Sloth: In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
Uncertain Principles: Watching Photons Interfere: “Observing the Average Trajectories of Single Photons in a Two-Slit Interferometer”
viXra log: Higgs Boson Live Blog: Analysis of the CERN announcement
Weird Things: Oh quantum causality, we hardly knew ye…
Where is Yvette?: Artie Aardvark’s Amazing ASTRON Adventures
Why We Reason: Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
World Science Festival: E.O. Wilson’s Controversial Rethink of Altruism
Write Science: Pigeons, the Internet, and the Meaning of Science
Write Science: Smartphones and the Enduring Silence of the Cosmos
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