Many of you on ScienceBlogs will probably already know the fabulous blog Living the Scientific Life, but did you know she could soon be your Antarctica blogger? Wouldn't you love it if she were? If so she really needs your help RIGHT NOW. Click on this link and vote. Then, contact all of your friends and tell them to vote. THEN, tell your friends to tell their friends.
A Primate of Modern Aspect combines two of my favorite things in his blogging: excellent analytical skills and blog posts filled with primates. Make sure to add him to your RSS feed. To get a sampling of his work, check out his recent post that was accepted into the latest edition of Scientia Pro Publica (over at Greg Laden's Blog):
Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases around. It's caused by little Plasmodium protozoans that are transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito. The female mosquito picks up the protozoans from one host, and then, once the parasites have made it up into her salivary glands, she is able to inject the parasites into another animal. Once in the new host, most strains of malaria travel to the liver, where they differentiate and multiply until their host cells burst. Then, they leave the liver to infect the red blood cells, where they differentiate, eat, and reproduce. Malaria can be deadly in many cases, particularly with Plasmodium falciparum, and extremely unpleasant when not fatal. Since it's so deadly and common, malaria has been a rather strong selective pressure throughout human evolution.
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Thanks for the link!