Weekly round up - May 16, 2008
What’s been on The Great Beyond this week and a few extras...
Monday May 12
Neil Young becomes a spider / War on science? What war on science? / Cannibalism drives locust swarms
Tuesday May 13
McCain sets out climate stall / Grand Theft Dino / Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope / Scientific basis of a loud paint job / Elementary mistakes
Wednesday May 14
Are GM humans finally here? / Move over sugarcane - here comes sweet sorghum / Einstein: ‘god is human weakness’ / Shrimp’s super sight
Thursday May 15
Concern after Brazil loses environment minister / Crazy ants go wild in Texas! / Bird flu: more drugs please
Friday May 16
Does the universe seem dim to you? / Did people learn nothing from Icarus? / It's cold under the pole on Mars
Other Nature blog posts you may have missed
Climate Feedback: climate scientists in betting frenzy
Peer to peer: Paying taxes is not a qualification for assessing research programmes
Spoonful of Medicine: “next time you think that the Nature journals rip you off, think about this graph”
Ones that got away
“Rampant coyote attacks” trouble tortoise movers, from the LA Times
Life in the Dodo’s land, from the Daily Telegraph