Weekly round up - March 07, 2008
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday March 03
Songs about science part IV: GeekPop08 / Diabetes and the shrinking frog / Picker produces paper publication proposals
Tuesday March 04
What do you call a six legged octopus? / UK Physicists – check your job security here / Avalanche on Mars: Film at 11
Wednesday March 05
This is your brain on jazz / Antarctic cod put themselves ‘on ice’ for winter / Acid attack on Japanese whaling ship / Climate sceptics and a multiple choice blog post
Thursday March 06
Is there a doctor in the house? / Humans ‘hard-wired to spot snakes’ / Get malaria, get paid / Songs about science part V: singing scientists
Friday March 07
Shooting claim in whaling fight / Who really solved 140-year old maths problem? / When seas get hot, fish get lost
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
The Sceptical Chymist: Is math harder than organic chemistry?
In the Field: live from Svalbard, plus a podcast
Climate Feedback: Saving the trees
Ones that got away
Further proof, if proof be needed, that chemistry is the greatest science, from Wired
Why a school in Birmingham, England, is getting into the space race, from The Guardian
A blue whale buried in 20 years ago is about to be dug up, from CanWest