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Patrick Keeling shows his students to create their very own DIY microscopes. Anne Casselman describes it *superbly*
This is worth reading through this piece on John Hunstman by Tom Chivers only for the brilliant football/evolution example
Jawless seafood, a legendary primer about the birth of vertebrates.
When Doctors Become Patients: moving story of the physician who will get throat cancer
Razor-sharp: why worrying whether people like science or otherwise is most likely the incorrect concern. By Alice Bell.
This is tough to overstate the influence from the marshmallow task. 40+ years on but still important, states Jonah Lehrer.
I spend my time blogging about papers. But here s a paper about my blog!
The way the war over dolphin privileges sundered the friendship between two researchers. Great story by Erik Vance.
Aceinetobacter baumanni, an entirely hardcore bacteria that s stopped by blue light. A little like Eco-friendly Lantern. Great tag-team posts by James Byrne and Lab Rat.
Natural hazards in age social networking, or how many people felt quakes on Twitter before real existence
Freedom to Riot: About the Evolution of Collective Violence. Another tour p pressure publish by Eric Michael Manley.
Advertisements advertising Contagion movie produced from fungi and bacteria. Viral marketing at its best.
The mirror test for self-awareness works best for visual creatures. For dogs, there s the yellow snow test.
Rebuilding 2-million-year-old hominin skin. John Hawks describes a brand new open-science project.
Should you sequence the bacteria within the British Funnel, you are able to exercise which month it's with perfect precision, states Carol Bik
Meet Chinquapin the Badass Whimbrel, who travelled with the center of Hurricane Irene and made it.
On menotoxins &lifier how culture biased science for the acceptance of menstrual harmful toxins . Great publish by Kate Clancy.
Your mind constructs reality. Do not purchase it Check out the application that allows the thing is the items you can t see.
Surprising nobody, Reebok s leg/bum-firming footwear do not work, by Travis Saunders
News/science/writing
Ben Goldacre about the record error that simply continues coming, and affects neuroscience papers
The flexibility of science graduates ought to be celebrated not criticised, states Imran Khan.
Live malaria vaccine is protected. Yay! Not really excellent at stopping malaria. Boo.
Guy will get $75k for showing Enormous Theorem . Proof runs to 15000 pages. Other specialised mathematicians get proof envy.
How accurate are our reminiscences of 9/11
Should We Delegate Weight problems Treatment To Weight Viewers
Diederik Stapel, a psychiatrist whose work I ve discussed, continues to be suspended due to fraudulent data.
Conspiracy advocates deny 9-11 anniversary. Excellent.
Fukushima had no impact on British public s nuclear appetite.
Babies show same brain reactions to the touch and discomfort until around 35 wks.
Flight from the hippo. Fly a pollutant-sampling plane from pole to pole &lifier you discover awesome things
Caf� owner likely to kill that laptop-using bastard
Located in an airtight chamber for 48hrs, depending on plant created oxygen will sealed-in researcher survive
A chapel that really wants to train science.
You ve been hidden within the boulders of the flattened building. A lizard robot moves in your direction.
Here s Carl Zimmer about the raft of recent Australopithecus sediba papers
Whales do not whistle they talk like humans
Mankind gives Antarctica a raging situation from the crabs
Political figures tend to be more conversant with human irrationality than most.
Character editorial: Severe storms result in the public think about global warming. Researchers must work to judge the hyperlink
Child s skull clearly showing both baby and adult teeth http
The way a Christmas card brought to Michelle Nijhuis s story on the killer softball bat disease.
About the spread of misguided remedies in sports medicine. For a number of people it's a boutique business
Predicting individual neural activity variations at 18 years according to behavior at 4 several weeks.
More rules whenever you purchase a used vehicle than sperm. 1 sperm donor, 150 siblings and siblings.
Can probiotic yogurt cure your psychological affilictions
The toxic drug that decimated Indian vulture populations continues to be available in pharmacies
Modern African genomes hint at massive prehistoric inter-hominin shagfest
What's made me mad is this fact 24/7 [lab] culture is condoned Whatsoever. Hear hear, Nicola Davis
Biting a wasp is really a gateway to inserting yourself with equine bloodstream
Could next Mars rover contaminate red-colored planet with Earth s bacteria
On Steve Irwin and also the rise of schlock character programmes. Produce Attenborough every day.
The infant seniors demand your bloodstream to refresh their dying brains. Or something like that.
1 / 3 of known species catalogued within the new Encyclopedia of Existence.
Irreproducible data: 1 / 2 of released studies declaring new drug target can t be produced by drug companies. However, conclusion is dependant on research from the drug company that isn t peer-examined and may t be looked into due to discretion issues. I believe my irony meter just broke.
The EU really wants to spend 2m on overview of the homeopathy literature for creatures.
Any paper, however bad, are now able to get released inside a journal that states be peer-examined. David Colquhoun about the publish-or-perish attitude.
Male fiddler crabs wave their hands to help keep awesome. Such as the Fonz.
Panda poo regarded as next thing for biofuel production
Eco-friendly tree frogs survive by utilizing lemonade physics.
In the Annals of Yesweknewthat, people look different in various photos
Sad, plaintive insect cyborgs can control their very own lives if perhaps they stay completely still.
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Early planning is going ahead for any massive crowdsourced movie from the 2017 photo voltaic eclipse.
Incredible once-in-many-lives lunar eclipse photo
XKCD on file transfer. Make certain you browse the alt-text.
Taxidermy hybrid cars FTW
Official US strategies for hunting yeti: only shoot/kill a yeti in self-defence
6m, 1 tonne! Giant crocodile taken in Philippines.
You've made heaven mad! Humans fire laser to sky, sky responds with lightning
The worst/best athlete ever do not jump for no guy.
Every crazy CIA plot you ve heard about came from with one guy.
Daredevil bot increases building, base-jumps off.
The issue with security questions.
Gallery: insect wings are awesome.
A camel transporting a vehicle up a hill.
Sad. Swedish wildlife Photog of the season confesses to faking photos
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Internet/journalism/society
Are jobs obsolete A concept-invoking column from Douglas Rushkoff.
Nice work by Martin Robbins on King Cnuts, tides and also the folly of political figures attempting to halt social networking
This is the way I plan to handle the next individual who boosts the blogger/journalist factor
Plenty of wise ideas in Alexis Madrigal s analysis of Michael Arrington s TechCrunch fiasco. Also nutrients from David Carr.
This site of obsolete abilities is going to be helpful when ever society collapses provided we are able to get online. Also, the Museum of Obsolete Objects.
Aging population + emerging suit culture = trend of not enhancing the seniors in China
Empty toner cartridge results in fuzzy pr release print-out so reporter breaks embargo. Riiiiight.
Would you like interacting science Are you currently a little of the showcase Are you living working in london Mind for Science Showoff s inaugural gig.
<spine shivers> Tobacco company seeks use of secret data on smoking habits
But could it be journalism Still attorney at law worth getting.
How an Durch success found launch a web-based hub for glorified prostitution.
Which Middle Eastern nation is most susceptible to Internet shutdown, since it only has one provider
Heh. 10 stuff you ll hear at each journalism conference
What s the purpose of science education
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