Weekly round up - January 18, 2008
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday January 14
Dinosaurs of the Day – Baryonix, Bristol, more / Songs about science / Giant cloud of gas will clobber Milky Way / Inaugural Antarctic passenger flight
Tuesday January 15
Zoo buys snake for $5,000 a metre / Solar cycle update – Ulysses visits pole / Dinosaur of the Day: Pregnant-teenager-o-saurus / ‘Priceless’ illegal fossils returned to China
Wednesday January 16
Whaling fight turns ugly / Sesame Street Science / All hail the super carrot! / Your senator's view on science
Thursday January 17
Messenger un-masks mysterious Mercury / NASA’s amazing flying space observatory / Where has the Yangtze gone? / Starfish eat heart out of ‘coral triangle’ / Parasite turns ants into tasty looking berries / Congress criticizes delay of polar bear decision
Friday January 18
Pope pulls out / Save the gharial! / Black sheep really are bad
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
The Niche: Chimeras are coming
Action Potential: Monkeys master mental math
Climate Feedback: Making biofuels sustainable
Ones that got away
How birds’ blood records oil spills, from the BBC
Is the Japanese cranes under threat?, in the Yomiuri Shimbun
Great feature on Alzheimer’s, from the Chicago Tribune