Catching up with the weekend news and blogs:
BEHOLDE! Giant’s Shoulders Edition 26: Fools, Frauds, and FAILURES.
A new take on necking (in giraffes, that is)
Did Dogs Gain Their Social Intelligence By Accident?
Blind Item: Developmental Learning Disorders and A Horribly Forgetful Girl: On Optimal Search in the A-not-B task and Developmental Origins of Numerical Cognition.
A place to learn about ecology and evolution
Serotonin in the octopus learning system.
K2 Spice associated with death of young Indiana mother of two
SfN the meh (Excellent advice by @drugmonkeyblog to SfN and any other conference organizers)
Pepsi spill causes sticky mess in science blogging ecosystem
Is PepsiCo Breaking its Promise?
In This Play, One Role Is Enough – “Meet Brad Miller (D-NC): understands how big banks put consumers at peril”
Banned from Facebook for interacting with fans? and What Happened With Our Porn, Ourselves and Facebook
Gulf spill impacts on coastal marsh
How Buzz Aldrin (Unintentionally) Paved the Way for Sex in Space
Science Week Begins With Melbourne Museum Stealing My Heart
Book Review: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
Randomly growing an embryo. It can work.
Coyotes Are a Bird’s Best Friend
A Frog in Trouble, A Scientist in Her Element
Wolf Spider Leg Regeneration Impairs Foraging
What is physiology?, Physiology organized by major body systems and Top down physiology
The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush
Was Thinking Tonight About the Greatness of Carl Sagan
The type of parents who claim that vaccines cause autism are now persuaded that wifi is harmful to kids: Barrie parents demand schools turn off Wi-Fi
Eukaryotes: more than just animals
Directions for going in a circle
Help for police to ID human bones