Weekly round up - August 31, 2007
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Friday August 31, 2007
Storms to get stronger / Lucy fossil controversy / Scientists sue over background checks
Thursday August 30, 2007
Global warming: belief but no understanding / ‘Drunk’ astronauts were sober, probably / Supersonic space rain / Plants can hear
Wednesday August 29, 2007
Spiderman suit in ten years / Greenhouse gases and ozone holes / Science blogger sued update
Tuesday August 28, 2007
Star Wars prop in space / Stem cells fix rat hearts / China legislates for failure / Fantasy journal league
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
Spoonful of Medicine: Apoorva Mandavilli on (Bio)piracy in Brazil and elsewhere
The Sceptical Chymist: ‘Materials Girl’ on Physics, summer school, and math
Ones that got away
You think brain drain is a problem? Read ‘How T-Force abducted Germany's best brains for Britain’ in The Guardian
‘Diabetes as Darwinism’ - Greg Critser in the LA Times says we’re all short-beaked finches
Extinction fears over ‘Irwin's bum-breathing turtle’ from News.com.au
A giant space-junk gun in The Columbus Dispatch (via KSJ Tracker)
The Great Beyond will be back on Monday.
