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There are 12 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Urochordate Histoincompatible Interactions Activate…
This morning I'm heading off to the Science Fest To Beat All Science Fests - a.k.a. the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Francisco. There I hope to at least hook up with Tara, Janet and Chris Mooney and do some blogging along the way (time permitting).…
(A.k.a. "just under the wire Baby Blogging, because Kate forgot she took these pictures.")
In which SteelyKid performs a magic trick:
"Watch me make this pretzel disappear, Mom!"
"Wait a minute . . . "
"Hey! No photography! Now give me that camera and no-one will get hurt."
And that's why there'…
This image came out a couple months ago in Nature, but I just came across it today. I quite like the way it sums up the history of life--something that's maddening hard to do, since the time scales are so vast. It shows how life's diversity has been accumulating for billions of years. This chart…