Weekly round up - March 14, 2008
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday March 10
Pygmy hippo snapped in Liberia / Climate change ‘could lead to conflict with Russia’ / Vaccination and the choice agenda / The traveling biobank show / Genetic modification joins lust on mortal sins list
Tuesday March 11
Are you ready for your close up? / Russia forces Korea to replace astronaut / This is your brain on diesel
Wednesday March 12
Road, rail and air links under climate cosh / A royal sex scandal in the ant world / What’s the French for IUCN? / Hacking the heart / Compromise on climate? Not this year, Democrats say
Thursday March 13
Physicist-priest wins $1.7 million prize / £25m dome to save butterflies / Short men are the jealous type
Friday March 14
The secret of sneaky alligators' roll over / Too much sun makes tomatoes wonky / Call the space repair man / Thank God it’s π Day
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed - conference blog special
Make sure you read Eric Hand’s blog from the lunar and planetary science conference in Houston: a grad student who was shot in the Northern Illinois University shootings and still turned in his conference poster; Maria Zuber eating her hot and sour soup while talking about the moon’s internal gravity field; and Mike Griffin’s lecture to the assembled scientists.
Meanwhile, Rachel Courtland has posts on crumpled balls, eating dolphin, and other cool stuff from the American Physical Society
Ones that got away
Rows over uranium mining in the Grand Canyon – LA Times
Why chimps shouldn’t be on TV – CanWest news