Is it getting crowded in here? Photo by James Cridland.

• This week, at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! The evolutionary compromise made by attractive flowers.
• And, at The Molecular Ecologist: I mused about how science depends on what scientists notice.
• Actually a pretty tidy solution. Ant larvae are completely constipated.
• Woah. Has NASA captured images of water flowing on Mars?
• Turning somersaults to remain inside the cave. The mental gymnastics of creationism.
• Drosophila-philiac. A history of the fruit fly as a model organism.
• Maybe not scary? No, that’s still a lot of people. Some fresh projections for world population growth—and a great in-depth report on the successful history of family planning in, of all places, Iran.
• Where to even start? Fighting the good fight for science literacy online.
• Hmm. Why don’t we have any numbers on the usefulness (or lack thereof) of online classes for minority students?
• Because they’re designed to! When statistics make caricatures.
• Superb. The endosymbiosis at the origin of eukaryotic life.
• Step aside, Tyrannosaurus. Some fossil mammals that are just as cool as dinosaurs.

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