Have the wheels come off the sunspot cycle? Video games good for kids? Galileo was wrong? Plus art appreciation for the Mandelbrot set.
On science blogs
If things are so bad, why are things so good? Plus: Yet another science blog network, Twittering docs, and science writing's glorious future.
Embryonic stem cells, the law and the money. NASA, psychologist to Chilean miners. Conservapedia finds Einstein relatively wrong. Part 2 on kin selection, group selection, and the evolution of eusociality.
E.O. (Sociobiology) Wilson has revised evolutionary theory in 2010's most important paper, as new kinds of bacteria were eating up that oil plume in the Gulf, just as the government said. Plus MIT's oil-cleaning robots, and introducing Scienceblogging.org.
The Gulf oil spill story is back from the dead, and so is 70% of the spilled oil. Health effects of the oil spill. Human evolution: The database. Human future: Written in the stars. Human brain: Power corrupts, but why? Sex is brain food.
Does the future of science publishing depend on the future of science blogging?
Virginia Heffernan bashes science blogs, and science blogs bash back. Ignorance is no excuse. Is Virginia Heffernan our target audience? Press power proves more than skin deep. Information still wants to be free. The future of online science writing.
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is pilloried but pushes back. Gene regulation, pro and con. Why cystic fibrosis is not a WASP disease and other genetic errors.
Women get HIV protection. What is an embargo break anyway? Tony Fauci explains the HIV gel. The climate for climate. Studying behavior is hard, but changing behavior is really hard. Frans de Waal explains that primates are excellent at conflict resolution.
The fate of sea turtles, the fate of Avandia, the fate of long-form science writing, the fate of the Pepsi challenge to bloggers, science is no joke.