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