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Here's how George Washington created consensus among a group of strong-willed men representing states at the most important meeting of all time: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 What can you learn about leading a meeting from our founding fathers?

This article is the second ( see the first here ) in a miniseries of five articles that will be posted over five days about civilization, fungus, and alcohol. The first four articles are already determined, but just how this series finishes up will be determined by the comments and ideas of readers. Sometimes scientists are asked if they have hobbies.

This is an exciting day for the #SciAmBlogs network – launch of the brand new blog by Katherine Harmon! She is a reporter and associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine, neuroscience and general life sciences for the website and you are probably familiar with her articles and blog posts (on the Observations blog). You can also follow her on Twitter at @katherineharmon . Katherine’s new blog is Octopus Chronicles , where she will write about this most intelligent and most charismatic of all invertebrates – the science, the history, the art, the works… This blog will be her “writing laboratory” as she works on her new book about these fascinating animals.

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