Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
- Liberals Are Conflicted and Conservatives Are Afraid and Colin Firth is published in Current Biology. From the Neurocritic.
- Despite what beer commercials tell you, not everyone responds to alcohol in the same way. The Science Life blog discusses the science of drinking.
- How does an octopus integrate its visual perception with its motor actions in order to navigate? Seems simple, but a great post at Cephalove suggests that it might not be as easy as it sounds. If you're an octopus, that is.
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