Quick Picks on ScienceBlogs, August 7

By ksharpe on August 7, 2006.

Wake up and smell the content: a good week's reading starts here.

"Hurricane-Climate Books"
Two new titles look ahead to the one-year anniversary of Katrina's wrath.
"20,000 Year Old Australian Footprints"
The Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area in New South Wales, Australia, turns up traces of ancient humans on the move.
"Algal Bloom in the Charles River?"
Mike the Mad Biologist thinks he's observed an algal bloom in Boston's Charles River. Have any other Bostonians out there noticed this?
"The Synapse vol 1, issue 4"
Started on ScienceBlogs but drawing entries from throughout the neuroscience blogosphere, The Synapse is a blog carnival for all things mind- and brain-related.
"Q&A: What is information?"
What is information, and what, if any, is its relationship to "meaning" or "language"? Mark Chu-Carroll breaks it down for you.
"Is it Psychological or Biological"
A teaching psychiatrist fields a question: psychology and biology are two different things, right?

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