And pretty much everything else of clay, too.
- This week, at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Dismantling A Troublesome Inheritance, part III: has natural selection created differences between racial groups?
- And at The Molecular Ecologist: Further thoughts on peer review.
- Not a great week. A series of not unrelated reminders of how poorly scientific workplaces can treat women: from Richard Feynman’s lechery to harassment during field work to the actual cover of Science.
- Now that’s a lizard of a different color. A lizard can change color for camouflage because it can (kinda) see with its skin.
- #MinnesotaSmug How my home state is steadily cutting its carbon emissions.
- Are you ready? Next week is moth week.
- Being wrong != being ignorant. The recent study that shows many people who deny evolution understand it pretty well anyway.
- The Facebook feed of evil. Digging into the demography, and the online likes and dislikes of white supremacists.
- And, appropriately, we’re freaking out. The World Health Organization recommends prophylactic antiretrovirals for all gay men.