Weekly round up - August 24, 2007
Round up of what’s on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Friday August 24, 2007
Changes in Uranus’s rings / Plenty of nothing / Another life-on-Mars mini-flap / Women prefer pink – author responds
Thursday August 23, 2007
Virtual epidemics / Transgender study row resurfaces
Wednesday August 22, 2007
Moose to blame for climate change / Science blogger sued / Climate report ‘unlawfully’ withheld / How fast were dinosaurs?
Tuesday August 21, 2007
Stutter trial payout / NASA wants sounds for space / Women prefer pink
Monday August 20, 2007
Arctic ice at record low (again) / Psychologists condemn torture, kind of / Depression ‘is over-diagnosed’ / Found: 5,000 year old chewing gum
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
The Sceptical Chymist: Various Nature editors and journalists blogging the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston
Nature Climate Feedback: Roger Pielke Jr on Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Nascent: Ian Mulvany on Google Sky
Spoonful of Medicine: Apoorva Mandavilli on the drugs in your sewers
Ones that got away
“We're rubbish at predicting how what happens will affect us emotionally” from BPS Research Digest
The world’s fattest mouse – disturbing picture not for the squeamish at New Scientist
Chopsticks will (bio)fuel Japan via AFP
The Great Beyond (which is chuffed to have been recognised by Charles Pettit) will return on Tuesday, after the UK public holiday on Monday.
