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