Encephalon #6 is Up

By purepedantry on September 11, 2006.

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Today's carnivals

Encephalon #35 is up on The Primate Diaries Gene Genie #19 is up on ScienceRoll Carnival of the Green #102 is up on Natural Collection Carnival of the Blue #6 is up on Cephalopodcast Grand Rounds are up on Counting Sheep The Carnival of Mathematics #20 is up on squareCircleZ

Important Announcements

1) Two of my favorite bloggers -- Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle and Steve Higgins of OmniBrain -- have teamed up to form at group blog called Of Two Minds. Adjust your links accordingly. 2) Encephalon 40 is up at Mind Hacks. Thanks Vaughan!

Brains of the Week

Encephalon #6, the neuroscience blog carnival, is up on Retrospectacle

New blogs, new Encephalon

Of Two Minds, the much-anticipated merger of Steve Higgins' Omni Brain and Shelley Batts' Retrospectacle, makes its debut today. Not Exactly Rocket Science is also up and running here on ScienceBlogs.com. If you haven't had a chance to take a look at the relatively new blog Translating Autism, you…

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