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Top picks<\/strong><\/p>

The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: “A website dedicated to the horrors of pre-anesthetic surgery<\/a>.” And a wonderful one at that.<\/p>

Happy anniversary to Jennifer Ouellette and Sean Carroll<\/a>: read her lovely tribute to falling in love with a physicist.<\/p>

Emma Marris on cloning extinct animals<\/a>. I for one would love to see a sabre-tooth cat devour a ground sloth.<\/p>

David Robson chronicles a brief history of the brain<\/a> from the first neurons to humans.<\/p>

NobelPrizeWatch<\/a> – a new blog by Simon Frantz about the prizes and coverage of the prizes. This should be good, especially since Simon used to work for the Nobel Foundation.<\/p>

What? Huh? Wait.. how did.. UH? What happens when a slinky falls<\/a>? This apparently.<\/p>

“What good’s a toolkit if you don’t use it to build something?” Jack Horner’s quest to reverse-engineer a dinosaur<\/a><\/p>

Paper-based diagnostic tests<\/a> that are as small as a stamp and weigh less than a penny<\/p>

Gauging an area’s biodiversity strictly through the DNA in its dirt<\/a>.<\/p>

Greg Dunn creates Japanese-style paintings<\/a> from human brain cell photos<\/p>

Halfway down: a superb list of tips for avoiding crap he-said-she-said journalism<\/a><\/p>

A very good write-up of that study about reconstructing what people see from their brain activity<\/a>. Meanwhile, David Bradley asks some searching questions to<\/a> the researchers and gets some good answers.<\/p>

Popular Science published a detailed and comprehensive profile of Felisa Wolfe-Simon<\/a>, the scientist behind last year’s arsenic-life controversy. David Dobbs and Carl Zimmer voiced my concerns much better than I could have. They argue respectively that the piece neglects its journalistic duty by leaving out key details<\/a>, and in some places, airbrushing history entirely<\/a>.<\/p>

The 2011 IgNobel Prizes<\/a>, as covered by SciCurious, with Real Time Storify!!<\/p>

“The only way to do it is to bypass the cannibalistic phase.” Baby sharks<\/a> birthed in artificial uterus:<\/p>

The innovative word of animal prosthetics<\/a> by Emily Anthes, with a follow-up on her blog<\/a>.<\/p>

The Dinosaur Baron of Transylvania<\/a><\/p>

Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum<\/a>. Absolutely incredible story from Linda Geddes.<\/p>

The Atlas of the Human Ecosystem<\/a> by Carl Zimmer<\/p>

“Anger isn’t an issue when you start with birds you love” Robert Krulwich peers into the minds of climate deniers<\/a> and wonders what it will take to make them see reason.<\/p>

A neurosurgeon<\/a> gives thanks to his science teacher.<\/p>

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Science\/news\/writing<\/strong><\/p>

The world’s most expensive drug: a steal at $409,500\/<\/a>yr<\/p>

From the blood of wallabies<\/a>, a possible new weapon against drug-resistant bacteria<\/p>

“This is a genuine scientific debate… it is not a manufactured controversy.” John Butterworth on the supposedly faster-than-light neutrinos<\/a><\/p>

“If your funding programme<\/a> has a zero failure rate, you’re doing it wrong”<\/p>

Sigh. Goats and cancer<\/a>. Try not to smoke, drink, eat or have unprotected sex with goats, okay?<\/p>

Watch a prostate surgical robot<\/a> peel the skin off a grape. Cool. Now imagine it doing that to your prostate. NYEARGH.<\/p>

Mystery illness in Australia making parrots “drunk”<\/a><\/p>

Why Brain Scanners Make Your Head Spin, and what it means for MRI scanning studies<\/a><\/p>

I am koala<\/a>, hear me roar<\/p>

How the BBC’s dark forces of political correctness<\/a> threaten the Christian era, or Why the Daily Mail have once again surpassed themselves.<\/p>

The Soup<\/a> That Is Killing the Ocean<\/p>

By 2020, it should be possible (technologically, if not practically) to sequence every human genome<\/a> in a year<\/p>

After decades of research, we can now accurately measure a kilogram<\/a>. (It weighs 2.2 pounds, right?)<\/p>

Are slave-raiding ants<\/a> really slave-raiders?<\/p>

Carl zimmer asks “Do skunks<\/a> smell their own odor? Do they mind?” Answer seems to be yes and yes.<\/p>

“The device uses sunlight to rip apart molecules of water, just like a photosynthesizing leaf<\/a>. ”<\/p>

A striking case of predator avoidance<\/a> in fish – sharks barrelling into a shoal<\/p>

Apparently, NASA had a Congressionally-mandated goal of finding > 90% of planet-killing asteroids<\/a>. Which it has now met<\/p>

New evidence for *functional* plant RNA<\/a> in the bloodstreams of people & cows. This is such an amazing story.<\/p>

Terminal buzz<\/a> gives bats their hunting edge<\/p>

‘Autistic’<\/a> mice created and treated. Well, not really treated. Either way, the Mouse Research Council is really getting value for its money.<\/p>

“You can adopt a HeroRAT<\/a> of yr own.” In Thailand, giant rats are on their way to sniffing out land mines.<\/p>

“We need a more systematic approach to animal experiments<\/a>”<\/p>

23andMe now offers whole-exome sequencing for $999<\/a>!<\/p>

“The dominant way of thinking about the role of science journalists historically was to view them as translators, or transmitters, of information<\/a>. Now, however, a powerful metaphor for understanding their work as science critics is to see them as cartographers and guides.”<\/p>

“You need to mentally redshift the color<\/a>. If it’s green, it’s actually a little more yellow.” Fossilised beetle colours preserved after millions of years.<\/p>

How a Failure With Measles<\/a> Helped to Eradicate Smallpox<\/p>

“There’s a lot to loathe about climate change. But if adventurers sip champagne<\/a> after reaching Antarctica, it’s O.K. to cheer.” No, it’s not. Slap them in their smug faces.<\/p>

Porcupines and tigers and serpent eagles, oh my. 10 video camera traps<\/a> in the jungle, 1 mth of footage, 5 mins of edited video.<\/p>

Dawkins’ Weasels<\/a> Beat Monkeys at Replicating Shakespeare.<\/p>

The hunt is on for BBC’s Amateur Scientist of the year<\/a> competition<\/p>

The last 100,000 years in human history<\/a> by Razib Khan.<\/p>

Traces of a Lost Language<\/a> and Number System Discovered on the North Coast of Peru<\/p>

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Heh\/wow\/huh<\/strong><\/p>

Hummingbird smuggler<\/a> caught with his pants down<\/p>

Sleeping baby pandas<\/a>. That is all.<\/p>

A superb warning sign<\/a> for the Twitter generation<\/p>

The world’s most interesting subway maps<\/a>. Although I heavily dispute the idea that NYC’s map is more famous than London’s<\/p>

How to peel a head of garlic<\/a> in less than 10 seconds<\/p>

River dolphin fetus<\/a><\/p>

“Full disclosure: I’m reviewing this book<\/a> because I was asked to by the publisher.. I’m glad I didn’t pay for it”<\/p>

This is a building that looks like an impaled head<\/a><\/p>

An amusing Slate piece about working as a fact-checker of Cosmopolitan’s sex tips<\/a>.<\/p>

Heh. Almost there<\/a>… Al…most… there…<\/p>

Neal Stephenson’s entire handwritten manuscript for the Baroque Cycle<\/a> (inc pen nibs & ink bottles)<\/p>

British Wildlife Photography awards<\/a> 2011<\/p>

“You’re a total hairy bush viper<\/a>.” 30 vetebrate common names potentially useful as insults.<\/p>

“They Ate What<\/a>?” Some unfortunate veterinary X-rays, including a dog that ate a dinosaur<\/p>

What the British mean<\/a> RT @NeilWithers: @carlzimmer http:\/\/t.co\/NGqEnD4q&rdquo<\/a>;<\/p>

Long exposure photos taken from the fronts of Tokyo trains<\/a><\/p>

“All of life<\/a> has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook’s new features.”<\/p>

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Internet\/journalism\/society <\/strong><\/p>

The world’s first iPhone 5 review<\/a>. Sort of.<\/p>

George Monbiot discloses his salary<\/a>, asks all journos to do the same. Hmm. The amount seems completely irrelevant; it’s the source that matters.<\/p>

“Authors more interested in whether he loves her<\/a> than whether she loves him<\/p>

What misogyny looks like<\/a>. This continuing treatment of Rebecca Watson is just appalling.<\/p>

“Shrapnel, Leotard, Maverick, Boycott and Cardigan and other people who became nouns<\/a><\/p>

“The more journalists can do<\/a> to understand, and convey, the process of science as well as the findings, the better off everyone will be.” – Andy Revkin on finding reliable source in an age of too much info.<\/p>

Reading the Daily Mail is nauseating<\/a>, but what’s it like to write for them?<\/p>

“Copy. You’re being hit with a green laser.” Wow, it’s really not a good idea to point a laser pointer at the sky<\/a><\/p>

Tips on becoming a better writer<\/a><\/p>

Megan Garber: Google News is treating news orgs’ willingness to credit others<\/a> as a vector of trust<\/p>

A network infrastructure for journalists online<\/a>, by Paul Bradshaw<\/p>

Data journalism, 1821 style.<\/a><\/p>

“If This Then That<\/a>” – a tool that lets you automate the internet.<\/p>

“From religion to trend and from trend to infrastructure.” On open access<\/a>and the Internet as a disruptor.<\/p>

How do scientists<\/a> view fact-checking by science writers? With a related piece by Ananyo Bhattacharya<\/a> and another related post from Al Dove<\/a>, with a long discussion in which I have chipped.<\/p>

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