- This week, at The Molecular Ecologist: Applying DNA sequencing technology to Darwin’s back yard, the infection-fighting genes ticks borrowed from bacteria , cleaning up draft genome sequences, Data Nuggets as a new form of broader impact, clinal color variation in barn owls, and visualizing migration rates with circos plots.
- The most direct evidence yet. People who know individual LGBT folks are more likely to support us politically.
- Great! What took so long? The Creationist “Ark Encounter” theme park just lost its tax breaks for religious discrimination.
- Yow. Malcolm Gladwell, serial plagiarist.
- Desperate. The plans to save Louisiana’s disappearing coastline.
- Hopeful. U.S. economic growth sees to be decoupling from oil consumption.
- So cool. Electric eels catch prey by remote-controlling their muscles.
- One ambiguously useful step for man. NASA successfully test-flies its new spacecraft.
- Give’em time. Want answers in class? Wait just five seconds.
- You don’t want to get on the wrong side of the Tolkien estate. The devastating consequences of re-translating The Lord of the Rings.
Denim & Tweed
Ignoti, sed non occulti.
