Today on ScienceBlogs:
- The Chronicle of Higher Education is running a symposium on the benefits of academic blogging
- When vocalizing, rhesus macaques use regions of the brain that correspond to language centers in the human brain
- A medical anthropologist in Minnesota undertakes a study "to examine the ways in which ideas about everyday life in American society are shaped by and shape ideas about sleep"
- Why Indonesia's bird flu policy should make you nervous
- Is science just 'common sense' writ large?
- The math of zero
- What's the difference between carbon dioxide and the common housefly? (Hint: it's which one we're trying harder to get rid of)
- Viva La Evolucion! The most boring woman on Earth on the science and math roots of The Simpsons
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