Aliens abduct bloggers! Or did bloggers abduct aliens? And did you hear, they all ate arsenic at a NASA press conference! Anyway, things are a bit better for HIV infection and AIDS.
On science blogs
It's all brain all the time at the Society for Neuroscience. Celebrities and the brain. Female orgasm and What Women Want: The truth about premature ejaculation. Plus oxytocin, grad students, optogenetics, jet lag, and improving memory.
Free online: Wise advice from your science-writing peers, direct from ScienceWriters2010, the NASW annual meeting, Plus waiting for ScienceOnline2011. Plus the truth about Daylight Saving Time: If you spring forward, you might fall back.
The National Association of Science Writers is meeting at Yale, and you can be there even if you're not there. Plus post-election postmortem.
The Open Notebook opens up the science writing process for your scrutiny. Plus science-related election miscellany.
ProPublica presents a database of doctors on the take from pharmaceutical companies, and praise is not universal. Mandelbrot is dead, but the Mandelbrot Set lives on. And Schrodinger's Cat acquires a canine companion.
The Chilean miners: therapy and media matters. Blog control at US News. The buzz about bee colony collapse. Most biomedical research is wrong.
Once more, Tuskegee-style human experimentation, but this time in Guatemala. 2010 Nobel Prizes: All carbon, all the time in chemistry, physics, even medicine.
ADHD is a genetic disorder, sort of. The human microbiome is very big now. Climate change in Washington and elsewhere.
Health care reform could be reformed into oblivion. Arguments about the salmon Frankenfish are not sustainable. Plus merging addictions.