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By ksharpe on July 26, 2006.

Today on ScienceBlogs:

  • Ten leading climate scientists say: even those who disagree about global warming can admit that overdevelopment on the coasts sets us up to lose life and property to hurricanes
  • A Tale of Two Job Searches (Having A Family and an Academic Career, Part 4)
  • Morgan Spurlock (of Supersize Me fame): "We need to turn scientists back into the rock stars they are."
  • A new sunscreen may blow previous sunscreens out of the water
  • New levels of complexity discovered in DNA; Cassini sends back photographs of Titan's murky "lakes"
  • Hybrids vs. Hummers redux: Sticking up for corporate research
  • And, finally:

  • This post might be in poor taste, but you know what I think was in really poor taste? The decision to start calling stored embroys "snowflakes" in the first place.
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