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June 30, 2009

World Conference of Science Journalists - New media new journalism

Category: Journalism

Delegates from Google, NSF and Wired discuss the future of online science news.

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Live-tweeting the World Conference of Science Journalists

Category: Journalism

Through the medium of Tweetdeck, I am listening in on *every* breakout session.

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Monkeynomics - monopolies, markets and exchange rates in wild monkeys

Category: Monkeys

Among vervet monkeys, grooming works like a currency that follows market laws of supply and demand. The amount that any individual is willing to give in exchange for a service depends on how rare or abundant it is.

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500 posts! Woo, and I might add, hoo...

Category: Personal

100 in four months - not too shabby. A fitting way to mark a week of blogging with pure caffeine replacing my bloodstream. 3 posts up already, three more written and two further on the way. It's a good news...

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June 29, 2009

From Spanish to swine - how H1N1 kicked off a 91-year pandemic era

Category: Viruses

Witness the history of the 1918 H1N1 flu and its growing family of descendants - a thrilling tale of survival, adaptation, extinction and resurrection, 90 years in the making.

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Frigid echidna sex - competition drives males to mate with hibernating females

Category: Sex and reproduction

If the idea of a cold, motionless sexual partner isn't one of your turn-ons, then you're clearly not an echidna. The males of these spiny Australian animals will happily mate with females even if they're hibernating.

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June 28, 2009

Does having more competitors lower the motivation to compete?

Category: Psychology

Having more competitors makes it more difficult to compare yourself against any one of them. This means that our motivation to compete falls as the number of competitors rises, even if the chances of success are the same.

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June 27, 2009

Clever New Caledonian crows use one tool to acquire another

Category: Animal intelligence

New Caledonian crows can use one tool on another in the quest for food.

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June 25, 2009

Why do female seed beetles prefer the sperm of inferior males?

Category: Sex and reproduction

After females mate with two different males, it's the sperm from the lower-quality specimen that fertilises most of her eggs. Even though the paragon's sperm would sire more successful offspring, it's the loser who ends up fathering most of her progeny.

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June 24, 2009

35,000-year-old German flutes display excellent kraftwerk

Category: Anthropology

Fragments of ancient flutes uncovered from a German cave are some of the oldest musical instruments ever discovered. The most intact one was carved from the arm bone of a vulture.

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