What’s been on The Great Beyond this week, plus a few extras…

Monday July 21

Boistrous bars boost boozy benders / Global warming swindle only swindled some / Wolves’ endangered status changes again / The dopes who dope

Tuesday July 22

Exploring the Eigenfactor / Mapping malaria nets / Bad drug news day

Wednesday July 23

New drug for prostate cancer … eventually … maybe / Dutch researchers create miniature flying ‘dragonfly’ / Calling all arithmomaniacs: vote for A Square / Family tree shows dinos missed the revolution / It’s that man again… / Lunar Science Conference round up

Thursday July 24

Dances with wolves / Japan’s earthquake warning system: another miss, another excuse / RIP Victor McKusick / Bletchley Park risks ‘rack and ruin’ / Crunching PETA’s numbers / Institute head’s mobile phone scare / And the fan club lives on

Friday June 25

AIDS activists’ ‘irrational actions’ / Unsubstantiated claim of the week / The Arctic oil rush is upon us / AIDS news: good and bad

Ones that got away

Seed’s labs-by-night photo gallery (Hat tip Wired).

Einstein’s skeleton arrives in the Middle East, Einstein being a 4.5 tonne Apatosaurus skeleton placed on display in Abu Dhabi International Airport. Best headline: Abu Dhabi do!

‘A Natural Selection’ – Olivia Judson’s latest NY Times column on Charles Darwin.

‘Russian bears trap geology survey crew’ – Reuters on a nasty story out in Kamchatka (and previous on the topic from RIA Novosti).

Papers with good titles

The taming of the shrew milk teeth (tooth development suppression in mammals).

One Fig to Bind them All (host conservatism in fig wasps).