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Dam everything to hell. Debate within the damming from the Mekong The independent Berkeley Earth project finds no grounds for climate sceptics claims. Again. Great write-up by Ian Sample.
Richard Conniff on using DNA from rhino horn to place a poacher in jail
F**k Yeah Fluid Dynamics an excellent blog, and not simply for that title.
How economic inequality is (literally) causing us to be sick an essential piece with an unspoken problem by Maia Szalavitz
Virginia Hughes around the science of punny funs
Megan Garber on why David Promote Wallace s piece on luxury cruise ships is really good. Garber is excellent herself I believe Wallace would approve.
Celestial Camouflage wondrous Robert Krulwich publish about images that appear to be like planets but they are really
Scicurious tears apart a paper concerning the Pill and relationship satisfaction, and also the ensuing media coverage.
I figured this is actually the part when everybody states: Who likes you fungus But everybody stated: Holy garbage, really Adam Rogers around the story behind among the best science tales of the season. Essential-read for those who worry about writing, journalism, science or good stuff.
Really exciting news in regards to a new malaria vaccine that may halve the chance of the condition. Within the NEJM: This is progressively obvious that people possess the first effective vaccine for parasitic disease in humans. Meanwhile, in Character: Trial answers are promising but marred by poor effectiveness against severe forms
Outdoors Notebook opens its notebook of effective pitches. Essential-read for ambitious authors.
OMG, this is GFP: How glowing felines (&lifier other fluorescent creatures) help biomedical research, by John Rennie.
From plankton to Lenski to Google Books Brandon Keim the planet s great lengthy-term datasets
An Adelie penguin steals gemstones from the neighbour s nest and it is caught on film.
An awesome in-depth Atlantic profile of EO Wilson and the latest altruism fracas.
By which Razib Khan miracles if Neanderthals simply didn't have leadership. Great, thought-invoking publish
Phrases I wasn't looking to read: a reasonably rococo penis . An excellent dragonfly story within the NYT.
An excellent tale of rafting rats. This is actually the kind of narrative news style I attempt to create for this blog. Look just how much better it's compared to typical BBC version.
News/science/writing
[One] found the film having a container of Toshiro Mifune s ashes. [He was] taken off laptop computer. Robert Krulwich on left and right.
These Millipedes Can t Hear, How Come They Sing
Let s send grave-slowly destroying surgical robots into space to produce new satellites from original copies
Seeing and never thinking: the way we discovered the egg and sperm
Why flamingos are actually minus eco-friendly, not pink
Greatest ever study on mobiles still indicates no cancer risk, shocking simply no one that really understood the study
Spies to make use of Twitter like a very ball. Invaluable intelligence being acquired around the secret lives of felines, trolls.
A very sad story in regards to a independently possessed wild animal collection, whose citizens needed to be wiped out when their owner launched them and shot themself. Susan Orlean around the tragedy: Wildlife Do not Desire To Be Possessed
�Stunning new Archaeopteryx fossil implies that wild birds developed down before heads.
Mountain beavers developed tough, volcano grit-busting teeth. There s a vagina dentata joke here somewhere
This really is essentially a randomised trial of moving people into better communities
Facebook friend tally is connected with variations in brain structure That sure sounds dodgy, however the Neuroskeptic states this is an very good paper.
10 scientific words that came from in sci-fi
How would you react with massive hollowed-out nuclear mountain
Parasite Turns Wasps Into Outsider Zombie Queens
Stomach bacteria can decrease drug effectiveness
Basically talk bullsh*t, this is because I m doing the work for you personally. Awwwww. Jonah Lehrer how buddies can ruin memory.
Researchers straighten out the strategies of bubble-rafting snails
By which Robert Krulwich inspires students about the way forward for science journalism (and calls us a sick guy)
Author s concern over transformed language in her own PLoS ONE paper brought to withdrawal/correction
Behind the curtain of BBC s latest natural history spectacular, Frozen Planet
Sceintists re-enact mummification process using body of Devon taxi driver
American Academy of Paediatrics to oldsters: limit TV consumption by children under 2 yrs old
A comprehensive, balanced and informative overview of Steven Pinker s new book by Vaughan Bell.
The Storyline of Spigelia genuflexa, or, Why Biology Needs YOU
The actual physician who fact-inspections House:
What Woodsy Woodpecker Can Train Us About Football
Do not overgeneralize a couple of.5 billion people. Razib Khan reminds us that India and China are extremely large indeed
The predominant mood one of the researchers is just one of intense curiosity. Pursuit to search for existence in Antarctic lake
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Heh/wow/huh
God may be the artist. I simply discover the Ninja Turtle in the work.
Moon Not Provided of Cheese describes famous cheese denialist Sean Carroll.
Sacha Baron Cohen s new character: The almighty Monckton
If won by you the weekly competition, your RNA is synthesised and obtained because when well it folds.
Hopefully this helps to help remind others not to eat raw slugs,
The wonderful champion from the Dance Your Ph.D. contest.
Just since you can t view it Great conservation campaign
Science confirming continues to be distilled to the fundamental essence
Sperm contributor are less susceptible to fatigue and score greater on self-directedness . Oo-er.
On common names.
Should you re into mucus, this is an amazing mucus. Strategies of bubble-rafting snails
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Journalism/internet/society
Seth Mnookin has released SciWriteLabs look around the fact-checking debate. Round One with David Kroll and Vincent Racaniello Round Two with Adam Rogers and Ivan Oransky
A listing of words which have different meanings for researchers and also the public created a Google Paperwork listing of terms. But Alice Bell pulls a sceptical face
Was the 7 feet monster slipper a real PR stunt
Google changes mind. Google + will support pseudonyms
Pastors convince 3 London women to prevent taking meds &lifier pray away their Aids they die
David Dobbs on parallels between structure in Schubert, Brought Zeppelin and lengthy-form writing
Strategies of a dying-row chef
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