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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June 30, 2009
Category: Journalism
Delegates from Google, NSF and Wired discuss the future of online science news.
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Category: Journalism
Through the medium of Tweetdeck, I am listening in on *every* breakout session.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Ed Yong at 7:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Ed Yong at 6:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2009
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.
Posted by Ed Yong at 6:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
Posted by Ed Yong at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2009
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.
Posted by Ed Yong at 10:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2009
Category: Animal intelligence
New Caledonian crows can use one tool on another in the quest for food.
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June 25, 2009
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.
Posted by Ed Yong at 2:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2009
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.
Posted by Ed Yong at 1:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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