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

Friday October 19

Inside the mind of ‘Honest Jim’ Watson / Sea change brings coast guard to Arctic / Watson apologises; suspended from Cold Spring Harbor

Thursday October 18

X-ray sat laid to rest / An early taste for seafood

Wednesday October 17

Ice surveyors will walk to pole / James Watson’s race row / A feast of fossil footprints

Tuesday October 16

Dinosaur of the day / Gossip beats facts any day / Chimps exposed as liars

Monday October 15

South China Tiger spotted / Florida stops burying tortoises alive (soon) / Fear gets seen faster / New crew aboard ISS

Ones that got away

The hotly anticipated Star Trek film chronicling the early days of James T. Kirk and fellow crew members during their training at the Starfleet Academy, seems to have been largely cast (BBC; imdb)

State and federal biologists, who are smarting from research showing that they may have been protecting the wrong fish the past 20 years, are regrouping in their efforts to restore the rare greenback cutthroat trout to Colorado waters (NY Times).

Amateur stargazers map a ‘lopsided’ universe (Telegraph)

The Great Beyond will be back on Monday.