Quick Picks on ScienceBlogs, August 9

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.