If you were stranded on a desert island and could only bring seven recent ScienceBlogs posts with you, well, these would be the ones to choose.
- "Extra Special K?"
This just in: treatment-refractive depressives respond reall well to...ketamine!?
- "Where's the threshold for action?"
Kevin Vranes on why overwhelming scientific consensus alone isn't enough to spur action.
- "In the Beginning There Was .. The Big Bang"
Artist and biologist John Kyrk has created flash animations of biological events great and small.
- "Cabinets of Curiosity"
Because 'wunderkammer' is just about the best word there is.
- "Another Reason to Buy Ice Cream by the Barrel"
Hint: it's because food wrappers might be making you sick.
- "Bedbugs supplant nocturnal micturition as primary reason not to bring women home"
Uh-oh. Bedbugs are back.
- "Where Did My Son Get His Smarts?"
Bora on raising raising smart, sensitive kids as an atheist and a democrat.
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Due to work stuff, I'm very busy this week, and I don't have time to write a detailed
pathological language post, so I chose something that doesn't take a lot of explanation, but
While browser over at programming.reddit.com, I came across something simultaneously hideous and amazing.
I saw it at Julie's.
"American Music," the Violent Femmes
"California Stars," Billy Bragg and Wilco
"The City of New Orleans," Arlo Guthrie
"Song to Woody," Bob Dylan
"The Body of an American," the Pogues