I hear there's some kind of sporting event today. No excuse to not check out some links though. Science:
Random thoughts on CDC's swine flu effort: epidemiology and surveillance
In Praise of Deference
Seven habits of highly successful toads
Man Hunts Crocodile That Has Eaten Over 200 People
Climate change causes wolverine decline across Canada
Hubble Sights Strange Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH
Peer review: What is it good for?
Yes, ecology shapes evolution, but guppies show reverse also true
Other:
The GOP id speaks
Fiscalizing Failure
Great exchange between President Obama and Senator Lincoln
Bank Lobbyist Jamie Gorelick Endangers Student Loan Reform
One Bowl = 2 Servings. F.D.A. May Fix That.
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The Daily Galaxy article you link it is terrible. It contains many errors, including this hilariously bad sentence:
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Ed Yong: "Toads are an evolutionary success story. In a relatively short span of time, they diversified into around 500 species"
Success story? Are you kidding? If toads were successful, they wouldn't have had to produce 500 species, would they? One would have sufficed. Like humans (another evolutionary success story ;)). The coelacanth, now there's an evolutionary success story.