What a day – essentially 12 hours of continuous work (with a short break to go and vote), mainly trying to keep the incoming e-mails instantly dealt with (answered, deleted, forwarded, etc.) as I will be on the road over the next few days and will have very little time to do anything!
We all need (a little bit of) sex
How Amazon Speeds Up Economics Experiments
Farve, Martinis, and Science Cheerleaders on ESPN’s TMQ.
Escape the Silos: How the press can help rebuild the American conversation
Follow the “Truthy” Tweets to Find Twitter’s Political Spammers
Why isn’t science doing better under Obama?
Gaaah!!! Nature!: Entomological Dismemberment edition
The fattest ape: An evolutionary tale of human obesity
Four questions for Republicans…and four answers for undecided voters
Why You Should Start a Company in… Raleigh-Durham
Baby Dolphin Survival Depends on Mom’s Friends
Just 3 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes to go
Adapt or Die: Rebooting Science Journalism
Making the most of a medical conference
STUNNING – ‘I REMEMBER, SO I’M VOTING, AND NOT REPUBLICAN.’
Do mummies have a right to privacy?
Written in Stone and on the Page, Brian Switek’s new book on the fossil record
Motorcycle tablecloth trick: could it be done?
Did Wee Little Sauropods Stand Up to Run?
Kira Cochrane on role models for young women
If presenting a claim on a popular issue …
Circus of the Spineless No. 56
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Marla Broadfoot
How bats find water and why metal confuses them
Richard Smith on editors’ conflicts of interest
Recognizing Spatial Intelligence
Parallel Lives and Field Studies Reveal Strong Postmating Isolation between Ecologically Divergent Butterfly Populations
Making Marine Life Count: A New Baseline for Policy
Flying Can Be a Greener Choice Than Driving
How Justin Long Affably, Reasonably Ended An Internet Flamewar
Sanity, Iraq, and Jon Stewart’s “view from nowhere”
http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
Local Food, Nutrition, Hunger and Bacteria: Science Cafés Focus on Food Safety and Security
Dog Tired: What Mutts Can Teach Us about Self-Control
Nice Germs Finish Last: “Good Samaritan” Bacteria Provide New Clues in Antibiotic Resistance
‘Balloon head’ dolphin discovered
Study of Facebook Users Connects Narcissism and Low Self-Esteem
Festival of the Trees: Edition 53
The Publishing Partisans — Conservatives, Reformers, and Upstarts