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Why I blog
An interview with me
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December 31, 2009
Category: Personal
This has been A Good Year TM. I won an award, had fun reporting on the eye-opening World Conference of Science Journalists, finally joined Twitter, spoke at Science Online London and was promoted at work. On top of that, this...
Posted by Ed Yong at 4:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Prions - the infectious proteins behind mad cow disease, CJD and kuru - are capable of Darwinian evolution, all without a single strand of DNA or its sister molecule RNA.
Posted by Ed Yong at 2:00 PM • 14 Comments •
December 30, 2009
The coolest stories from this blog over the last year, as voted for by readers.
Posted by Ed Yong at 9:30 AM • 6 Comments •
December 29, 2009
Category: Music
A new way of treatng tinnitus - a ringing noise heard with no external sound - works by cutting out the frequency of the ringing from a patient's favourite piece of music. It reduces the loudness of the ringing, it's simply, it's cheap and it's enjoyable.
Posted by Ed Yong at 9:30 AM • 11 Comments •
December 28, 2009
Category: Lizards
Three species of lizards living in White Sands National Park have independently evolved white forms. They all altered the same gene buteach species has achieved its bleached skin through a different mutation.
Posted by Ed Yong at 5:30 PM • 2 Comments •
This is the final round of voting for the NERS stories-of-the-year polls. So far, there have been eight polls, each covering a different scientific field and I'm going to collate the results of these in the next couple of days....
Posted by Ed Yong at 9:30 AM • •
December 26, 2009
Category: Plants
A Palmer's oak in the Jurupa mountains has survived for 13,000 years by repeatedly cloning itself. It has seen Britain separate from continental Europe, the demise of the mammoths and the birth of human agriculture.
Posted by Ed Yong at 12:00 PM • 23 Comments •
December 24, 2009
Category: Parasites
Mosquitoes are accomplished parasites but they are no match for the most successful parasite of all - a bacterium called Wolbachia that could be our newest recruit in the fight against malaria, dengue fever and other mosquito-borne infections.
Posted by Ed Yong at 1:32 PM • 5 Comments •
December 23, 2009
Category: Psychology
They say that time flies when you're having fun but it also works the other way round. If you make people think that time is passing more quickly, you can make tasks more fun, noises less irritating and good songs even better.
Posted by Ed Yong at 9:30 AM • 11 Comments •
December 22, 2009
Category: Sex and reproduction
The sexual conflict between ducks is revealed by getting drakes to launch their ballistic penises into glass tubes, shaped like corkscrews to resemble a female's elaborate vagina.
Posted by Ed Yong at 7:10 PM • 14 Comments •
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