Weekly round up - November 30, 2007
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday November 26
Dinosaur of the day: Buffalo-head-smash-o-saurs / Elephants hate hunters, don’t mind farmers / Antarctic ship sinking fears / Indonesia: WHO can whistle for bird flu samples / Give us $3 billion, say marine researchers
Tuesday November 27
Gorillas use “weapons” / Fossils will/may/won’t delay Australian water plant
Wednesday November 28
NASA’s new map of the big white / Climate change ‘will undermine poverty progress’ / Flying foxes can’t handle the heat
Thursday November 29
Turkey may roast Dawkins’ atheism book / Are 25% of all US bird species at risk?
Friday November 30
To boldly go ... to the voting booth / A Christmas card from Hubble / Female antelope won’t take no for an answer / Don’t mess with Texas education
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
Climate Feedback: the climate podcast, episode 1
The Niche: Shenanigans at California’s stem-cell institute
In the Field: Brendan Maher blogging live from American Society for Cell Biology 2007
Ones that got away
The science of cheese, in the NY Times
The scientists inside Pakistan’s nuclear program, in the WSJ
Was Proust a neuroscientist? No, says Slate
Video of the week
Wasp voodoo rituals and cockroach zombies in the French Polynesian Islands, from Nature