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Most absorbing column of the week: Maryn McKenna talks about “vaccine-derived polio”, an “unintended aftereffect of success”
Holographic telecommunicator. It’s low-res, connected and jerky, but seriously, it’s a holographic telecommunicator.
Tom Chivers sets abreast his faculty of humour to address an agreeable account of why account about a “liberal gene” are actuality advanced with overstatement.
“The coursing for earth-like planets is an ballsy endeavour… a absolute case abstraction for the way that science at the bleeding-edge operates. It’s a abashment the media aren’t accomplishing a bigger job of carrying this to public.” Martin Robbins has a all-embracing gripe.
Welcome to Apple of WarmCraft. A altitude change computer bold tries to accompany the all-embracing claiming of all-around abating to new audiences.
“Evolution in action, aural to the naked ear.” A air-conditioned new abstraction on Galapagos finches, a iconic to evolutionary approach as they anytime were.
From Zoe Williams, a abundant account with Carl Djerassi, the artist of the Pill and the man who afflicted the apple for women.
Ignoring warnings from 1950s movies, scientists abound behemothic insects in the lab.
Ah, isn’t it nice aback a ample all-embracing affair actually produces the appropriate aftereffect and anybody abundantly agrees. 200 countries accompany armament to axis the accident of Earth’s life. But wait, says George Monbiot. “There is one problem: none of the journalists who fabricated these claims has apparent [the declaration]… The affirmation suggests that we’ve been conned.”
“For dolphin mothers, acknowledged parenting is as abundant a amount of accepting acceptable accompany as it is acceptable genes,” writes Brandon Keim.
This is big: the US Government says that genes (human or otherwise) “should not be acceptable for patents because they are allotment of nature.”
More afterwards the jump…
The cardinal of affidavit actuality abandoned is on the rise, for affidavit that are not all bad.
Robin Lloyd and Steve Mirsky accept a abundant writeup of a agitation about Rosalind Franklin, one of the co-discoverers of DNA’s structure. In it, Nick Wade espouses the appearance that Franklin wasn’t wronged because…er… she didn’t apperceive she was actuality wronged at the time. Right.
Amazon speeds up economics abstracts but added importantly, it’s beneath acceptable to recruit WEIRD volunteers.
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A alluring Wired affection on the All-around Seed Bank: Nature’s backup.
“Hope congenital on a lie isn’t achievement at all.” Beautiful column by PalMD on talking to patients about prognosis
NYT: Europe’s Plagues Came From China. I too accept Chinese ancestry, confused to Europe, and dead millions of… no wait.
They all attending the same? Here’s why.
Where altitude belief appear from: a abundant video from Peter Hadfield, who writes added here.
A history of anti-vaccination movements, dating aback to the 1850s.
Diana Gitig at Ars Technica describes a Moebius band fabricated of DNA origami
Did babyish sauropods run on two legs? Did their predators angle about bedlam while actuality cuted out?
“I apperceive that I do not ache from Autism. I ache from a abridgement of compassionate and support.” & 25 “things I apperceive about autism” over at Steve Silberman’s blog.
Brian Switek is annoyed of seeing naked dinosaurs. Maybe he should put his binoculars away, the big perv.
Jesse Bering narrates an evolutionary account of the fattest ape: us.
“Is it time to alpha countering altitude abnegation at the bounded level?” asks Chris Mooney
David Kroll takes a airing in the footsteps of caricatured angry as he puts himself in the shoes of Big Pharma
RIP Leigh Van Valen, evolutionary biologist abaft the Red Queen hypothesis
Sometimes, science can go spiral itself. Anomalocaris may not accept been a superpredator?
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“Do mummies accept a appropriate to privacy?” asks David Dobbs. That’s the Egyptian kind.
Polar bears: are they threatened or endangered? And either way, are they aloof screwed?
“Vaccines save lives; abhorrence endangers them. It’s a simple bulletin parents charge to accumulate hearing.”
Heh/wow
Greg Foot is a fable for this: how to accomplish Big Ben bang 13
Ants actualize a gecko.
From the Daily Mash: “Science cannot defeat blight AND aftermath a bewitched apparent amplitude coat, experts accept warned.”
Tired of arguing with anti-science crackpots who can almost canyon a Turing test? Nigel Leck was and created a bot to annoy altitude denialists for him. From Chris Mims.
Want an aboriginal Christmas present idea? Buy the Zooborns book. Raising acquaintance of attention through the average of enough cuteness.
“Meerkat celebrity Aleksandr Orlov has murdered and partially eaten several of his lower-status co-habitants’ offspring, it emerged aftermost night.” The Daily Mash, of course.
An absurd behemothic afraid bent on video.
Gaah! My brain! An alarming illusion.
George Takei against a douchebag
The European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010
At the NASA Kennedy Amplitude Center shop…
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The Apple Bloom Organisation’s ICD-10 chiral of diseases and bloom problems includes “Very low akin of claimed hygiene”, “Bizarre claimed appearance”, “Strange and baffling behaviour” and “Verbosity and amplified detail abashing acumen for contact”
“Psst! Lean closer…. I accept a secret… *closer*… you ready?… okay, don’t acquaint anyone but OWLS DON’T REALLY CARRY POST, YOU MORON”
The Atlas of Science: visualising what we know
Blogging/journalism/internet
Sophia Collins and Shane McCracken organised a abundant Beyond Blogging accident that I’m actual apologetic to accept missed. The accident produced bristles account for approaching activities to advance science advice and I actually adulation the abstraction of the Media Abutment Network.
A alluring agitation is angry in the comments of Angela Saini’s allotment on whether bloggers cheapen journalism.
A timeline for bi-weekly afterlife in every country in the world. The UK’s affidavit to go aural the abutting decade.
Sharks are “immune to every disease” says the BBC. They additionally accept adamantium claws. They’re the best there is at what they do. One of those statements is true, and it’s not the one by the BBC.
An absorbing booty on Google and associate assay in the accessible sphere.
James Harding says the Times paywall is a anarchy for its journalism. I admiration if the reporters would agree? George Brock has an assay of the anew appear 10,500 subscribers stat.
Another scientist suffers beneath the bond of British aspersion laws.
Invisible ranks: Jenny Rohn on the absence of changeable science ambassadors & pundits, and why it ability matter.
Climate scientist Simon Lewis on ambience the almanac beeline afterwards he gets misquoted by the Sunday Times’s Jonathan Leake. A admired assignment on active base journalism.
Meet Soylent, the crowdsourced archetype editor. Hint: it’s people!
You assuredly apperceive about this by now, but attestant the amusing and abandoned case of CrookSauce: a account of an editor with a antic attitude to plagiarism, and what happens aback you belittle the Internet
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Congrats to Rebecca Skloot, columnist of Amazon’s Book of the Year! That’s OVERALL by the way, not in a Science category. This is a massive win not aloof for Rebecca, but for science, journalism, acceptable writing, ancestral equality, changeable role models, and conceivably best of all, for the Lacks family.
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