Adelie penguins are total freaks, you guys. Photo by es0teric.- Time’s running out! You only have until Saturday night at 11:59 to vote for me (or somebody) in the 3 Quarks Daily 2012 Science Prize.
- In which opposable thumbs are less important than you thought. Self-pleasuring behavior of horses.
- Straight apples, queer oranges. A big new study of children with gay and lesbian parents doesn’t actually study children raised by gay and lesbian couples.
- How would you even identify an autistic fish? No, Prozac in the water didn’t make fish autistic.
- I, for one, have always said it was more like Parcheesi. Why ecology is not like billiards.
- Interesting—not apocalyptic. Increasing soil nitrogen makes carnivorous plants use less nitrogen from their prey.
- No behavioral diversity please, we’re British. Hilarious Edwardian-era notes on observations of penguin sex.
- Oops? Groundbreaking and irrefutable research links sea level rise to the prevalence of homosexuality.
- If you squint. How the biology in Prometheus could kinda sorta make sense.
- Publishing, by the number. The new open-access journal PeerJ offers all-you-can publish for a flat fee; and here are some notes about what that fee ought to be.
- But, but … the internet? Kids today have about the same ability to concentrate that they did in 1983.
- Oops. Not only does culling vampire bat colonies not reduce the prevalence of rabies—it makes it worse.
- The original Old Masters. Revised dating estimates suggest that the oldest-known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals.
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