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July 05, 2012

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6:00 AM | Be our Guests! Please introduce yourselves!
Today is the first anniversary of the Scientific American Blog Network. Yeay! Congratulations to us! Before the network was launched on July 5th 2011, SciAm already had eight blogs, some of them going back almost a decade. The Guest Blog is one of those older blogs, thus already having a number of readers and subscribers [...]
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October 25, 2011

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12:36 PM | Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: From Perspective-Taking to Empathy
Last week, I wrote about the importance of perspective-taking. This week, I’d like to continue with one of its close relatives, a state that would indeed be largely impossible without its existence: empathy. Empathy, a concept originally introduced as Einfühlung by Theodore Lipps, is a state that allows us to share in the experiences and [...]
Scientific American - Guest Blog
General Science

August 24, 2011

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3:00 PM | Sumaco: Ecuador’s Beacon of Biodiversity
A raucous flock of Chestnut-Fronted Macaws (Ara severus) signals both the commencement and closure of each day at Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS). The birds stridently announce their passage down the side of Ecuador’s Volcán Sumaco towards their foraging grounds each morning, and every evening they return up the mountainside to roost, a chaos of caws [...]
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