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Why did Jared Loughner shoot Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people in Tucson? Plus what went on at ScienceOnline2011, aka #scio11: video, e-books, and much more
On Radiolab, Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad are preaching to the unconverted.
When push comes to shove, butterflies adjust to the seasons in order to increase their chances of reproducing.
You can be part of ScienceOnline2011, thanks to NASW. It's easy and it's free to all.
The research showing that vaccines cause autism is a deliberate hoax, but the arsenic bug tale is self-correcting science. Also, blogger list, top 2010 stories list, Science Online 2011 (#SciO11)
Does Jonah Lehrer's New Yorker piece hurt science? Plus yet another week of the arsenic bug and the spotlight it shines on science writing. Plus blogs as newspapers-of-record.
Last week's news: The bacterium that substitutes arsenic for phosphorus is not, after all, from outer space. This week's news: Many scientists doubt that the bug is even very good at substituting arsenic for phosphorus.
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.