This was a long and sleepy day. After three days of sauna-like conditions, the AC is finally fixed so I expect I’ll be able to sleep tonight. While you read these:
Teaching journalists to read
What’s in a name? The NPG family tree
Welcome to Sleeping with the Fishes!
This is How I Link Science Articles
Don’t Worry, I’m (Un)Professional: A Guide to Your Laboratory Colleagues
The First Rule of NeuroGhetto. . .
Sailing by Starlight: the lost art of celestial navigation
Moving science communication into the public sphere–how?
A Science News Story About Funding! (And It’s Pretty Good, Too)
The Cretaceous birds and pterosaurs of Cornet: part I, the birds
Fear Mongering and the Morning-After Pill
We are not #1, and we are getting worse
Grants of Obligation, Grants of Necessity, Grants of Desire
Retraction Watch: Report what researchers are doing, and what they are undoing
You’ve discovered a whacky wood-eating catfish? So what’s new? and A Catfish that eats WOOD?
The Asymmetry of Waste in the Age of Abundance — A Reversal of Scarcity’s Balance
The science media make my head hurt
Climate action: the moral dimension
Visualizing the Science Blogosphere (and Open-Sourcing It)
Block by Block: Once you’ve launched, what’s Phase 2 of a community news startup? and Block by Block 2010: Time for the next steps
City Living Promoted Resistance to Infectious Disease
Giving patients a voice could raise number of minorities, women in clinical studies
Time to rebrand the stegosaur? and Playing the Stegosaur Name Game
Welcome to Women’s Health Writeup Roundup!
Evolutionary Diversification of the Lizard Genus Bassiana (Scincidae) across Southern Australia
Back to School Month: Peak Oil 101
Creative Research Science Experiences for High School Students and Because publishing your paper is only half of the job
How to burn a few extra calories while at work
Pacific Salmon and the Coalescent Effective Population Size
Post-Cranial Skeletons of Hypothyroid Cretins Show a Similar Anatomical Mosaic as Homo floresiensis
Gladwell on Social Media and Activism and Malcolm Gladwell: Twitter, You’re No Martin Luther King
From Preferred to Actual Mate Characteristics: The Case of Human Body Shape
When life gives you camels, make sausage.
Does Internet Use Lead to Addiction, Loneliness, Depression…and Syphilis?
Spanking in the USA: A sad state of affairs and why spanking is never ok.
As I was Saying ~ In My Letter to My Editor…
Whale Rider Put Animal’s, Own Life in Jeopardy
Accretionary Wedge #27 : Important Geological Experiences
Exoskeleton defines a new class of warrior
Tapes describe U.S. servicemen killing for sport in Afghanistan
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