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Featuring (very) bright sparks, biomimicry and flight, Dance Your PhD, NASA inventions, carbon nano-onions, Iceland’s renewable internet, spider silk, zoned-out rats, forecasting with Twitter, autistic facial characteristics, a new superconductivity, the geek book list, Tell Us A Story 2011 winners, and the economics of milk.
Also featuring some Interesting Things, including a comment on a paper showing how cats lap water…
Elf and aimee had fun this week. _Extra_ fun, give that Elf is away for the next two podcasts (*sniff*). However, we have Chelfyn Baxter of the g33k show to fill in for him!
The pearltree for this episode is here, and the pearltree for all episodes is here.
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Brightsparks competition - voting open!
Check out the winners of this year’s Dance Your PhD Competition
Curiosity “10 NASA Inventions You Might Use Every Day”
Carbon Nano-onions for Imaging the Life Cycle of Drosophila Melanogaster
Can Iceland’s Renewables Power the Web?
Nanoconfinement of Spider Silk Fibrils Begets Superior Strength, Extensibility, and Toughness
Zoned-out rats may give clue to consciousness
Spies to use Twitter as crystal ball
Autistic facial characteristics identified
Physicists Unveil New Kind of Superconductivity
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Sciblogs
What books do you think geeks should read?
Just So Storytelling – Tell Us a Story 2011 Winners
Milk milk everywhere but not a drop to drink
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Other interesting things
Evolution of a new enzyme for carbon disulphide conversion by an acidothermophilic archaeon
Comment on “How Cats Lap: Water Uptake by Felis catus”
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