Will the future have monarch butterflies? Photo by Minette Layne.- This week, at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Does debating creationists do any good?
- And at The Molecular Ecologist: Watching drug resistance sweep through the population of HIV in an infected patient.
- Sure, why the hell not? Does it make sense to assign literature in a biology class?
- Cool! DNA from a 1500-year-old strain of black plague.
- Evolved to chill out. How anoles deal with cold weather.
- Same subspecies, even! Two populations of the same rattlesnake species, two totally different venoms.
- Mercy meets practicality? Interviews with the survivors of murder victims suggests that the death penalty doesn’t give them more closure.
- More musing on #MyGenderGap What should we do about the gender ratio in our collaborations?
- We live in the future, part i: Clever fluorescent tagging visualizes the molecular basis of memory formation.
- We live in the future, part ii: Using engineered fruit flies to diagnose cancer.
- Not good. Migratory populations of monarch butterflies are smaller than they’ve ever been.
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