{"id":40480,"date":"2011-10-15T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-15-october-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-10-15T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T16:00:21","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-15-october-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-15-october-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (15 October 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

An incredible story about how Steinman developed unique treatment for his cancer<\/a> and united a disparate field.<\/p>

Massive congrats to Penny Sarchet<\/a> and Tess Shellard for winning the first ever Wellcome\/Guardian Science Writing Prize<\/a>. Expect great things. And a write-up of the award ceremony.<\/a> Here’s Tess’s piece<\/a>.<\/p>

“Science isn’t either settled or not settled<\/a>. This is a false and misleading dichotomy.” From RealClimate<\/p>

“Not all fields are unknown in ways where non-professionals readily step up to make contributions” – Alex Wild on entomology<\/a><\/p>

A paralysed man<\/a> high-fives his girlfriend using robotic arm controlled by thought alone<\/p>

Too Good to Be True: Sea Mammals, Plastic Pollution, and a Modern Chimera – great account of a quest to track down a dodgy statistic <\/a><\/p>

Cancer is a still a bad metaphor<\/a><\/p>

Virginia Hughes takes a skeptical look at some of the “mind-reading” brain-scanner stories<\/a>.<\/p>

Alice Bell with a lovely piece on science communication as public advocacy for natural objects. Who speaks for the trees?<\/a><\/p>

“Australians have a hard time imagining the future will be different<\/a> than the present.” The Economist on why this is a bad thing in the light of climate change.<\/p>

This is wonderful. What happens after a whale dies<\/a>, animated with paper cutouts and lovely music.<\/p>

The Giant, Prehistoric Squid<\/a> That Ate Common Sense. Brian Switek dissects the claims about a Triassic kraken. Meanwhile, Kevin Zelnio<\/a> encourages Brian not to “go out there on the internet and ruin it for the rest of us with your *facts*”<\/p>

Methane seeps as shark nurseries<\/a>? Are young sharks running on fossil fuels?<\/p>

Kimberley Gerson on what not to do if a bear (or shark or any other wild animal) eats her<\/a><\/p>

An incredible WSJ investigation of surgeons who make and sell their own spinal implants<\/a><\/p>

Michael Eisen on the “myth of the scientific martyr” and why Daniel Shechtman is not Felisa Wolfe-Simon.<\/a><\/p>

Amy Harmon<\/a> tells David Dobbs the story behind her terrific New York Times story on an autistic man entering adulthood<\/p>

Fountain of life<\/a> at the bottom of the Dead Sea. Wonderful story by Jennifer Frazer.<\/p>

“I never exactly heard the thunder; I felt it” A parachutist<\/a> is sucked into a cumulonimbus anvil cloud.<\/p>

Haters don’t always gotta hate. Ben Franklin knew that. How to turn the hater to fan<\/a><\/p>

An amazing letter from self-declared psychopath<\/a> (in the clinical sense) to Jon Ronson.<\/p>

A magical post by Mo Costandi on whether magicians<\/a> can teach neuroscientists a few tricks?<\/p>

The greatest abstract ever<\/a>. It could be used for virtually any newspaper story where the headline is a question<\/p>

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News\/writing\/science<\/strong><\/p>

Carl Zimmer heralds Megavirus<\/a>, the world’s largest virus. Soon it will duel Giant Octopus.<\/p>

Meerkats recognise<\/a> each other’s voices. And they really *really* hate the Russian one. ”<\/p>

A mysterious radiation source in Tokyo<\/a>, and it’s not Fukushima<\/p>

Nice visualization on the huge changes in Arctic ice<\/a><\/p>

A stunningly intact dinosaur fossil<\/a> found in Germany, with dinofuzz and skin.<\/p>

It’s now clear that every geoblogger has their eye on a secret volcano lair. Here are Dana Hunter’s<\/a> and Erik Klemetti’s picks.<\/a><\/p>

The smell of bumpy nipples<\/a> guides babies to milk<\/p>

How to clean an oil-slicked penguin<\/a><\/p>

The first three paragraphs in this story about the naked mole rat genome<\/a> are wonderful. But generally, I find they’ve-sequenced-the-genome-of-X stories to be insanely boring. They always take this form: Here’s an animal. Here’s what it does that’s cool. Its genes might explain how it does that. Something about practical applications. And so on.<\/p>

Chimpanzees<\/a> Should Not Be Used in TV or Movies<\/p>

Kate Fox argues that the effects of alcohol on behaviour<\/a> are determined by cultural norms, not by actions of ethanol. Interesting thesis, but hang on a minute, do you think there might be a conflict of interest<\/a>?<\/p>

Bee was, now is<\/a>. A solitary bee, thought extinct in the UK for 65 years, has turned up in Sussex:<\/p>

Interesting post about the myths of RCTs in a public policy context<\/a>.<\/p>

Careful clinical interview<\/a> is still the best Alzheimer’s predictor, not expensive biomarker tests<\/p>

“Before time alchemized its wings<\/a>, the creature was mostly yellow-green”<\/p>

“It’s like getting continuous tweets from the cells<\/a> rather than an occasional postcard.” An ePetri Dish<\/p>

The more feminine you look, the more children you want? No. Kate Clancy<\/a> and SciCurious<\/a> tag-team a paper.<\/p>

Tali Sharot talks about why most of us are overly optimistic<\/a><\/p>

Great Beeb piece on the people who are donating their brains to science<\/a>.<\/p>

Researchers aim to build dust library<\/a><\/p>

The weird sex life of orchids<\/a>, by Michael Pollan. Nominative determinism FTW.<\/p>

Forensic DNA<\/a> could make criminal justice less fair if the “disproportionately target poor and dark-skinned wrongdoers<\/p>

How do you autopsy a whale? <\/a>With four ton meathooks, whaling knives and bone saws<\/p>

Feel free to panic: superbug antibiotic resistance factor NDM-1<\/a> is in 100 million Indians. A “public health catastrophe.”<\/p>

“There’s a long American tradition of mixing economic populism<\/a> with cephalopods.” And pictures to prove it<\/p>

Breathing life into an extinct ethnicity<\/a><\/p>

There are only 430 whooping cranes left in the wild<\/a>. Most have been raised and reintroduced. Seven were shot last year.<\/p>

Six Myths About Sex And Gender<\/a>, Busted with Science.<\/p>

A living stromatolite<\/a> has been found in Ireland ”<\/p>

Will asking a question<\/a> get your paper cited more often? Well? Will it?<\/p>

“Do a little dance<\/a>, make a little love, drive down heritable genetic variation.” Tom Houslay on the dance of the peacock spider.<\/p>

The Drive To Be Different<\/a>: A hipster’s lament<\/p>

Giant armour-clad amoebas<\/a> the size of a mouse. Yes.<\/p>

Artificial muscles<\/a> made with “yarns” of carbon nanotubes ”<\/p>

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

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera<\/a><\/p>

I’ve never been more disappointed by a comma in a headline<\/a>.<\/p>

Oh, THAT’S what the faster-than-light<\/a> neutrinos are about.<\/p>

A study shows that sexism increases gender inequality<\/a>. I know. Astonishing, right?<\/p>

The prank potential of this is endless: a Japanese company produces realistic replicas of your face<\/a><\/p>

Boston Globe tailors<\/a> print edition to target 3 remaining subscribers<\/p>

Bad Lip Reading<\/a><\/p>

RGB wallpaper<\/a> looks like a psychedelic mess, but reveals different patterns under R,G and B light<\/p>

How to make a spider look silly<\/a>…<\/p>

Shit That Siri Says<\/a><\/p>

The Very Large Array <\/a>is looking for a better name.<\/p>

Death to word clouds<\/a><\/p>

“Gunshot wounds<\/a> to the scrotum: a large single-institutional 20-year experience”<\/p>

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

A crime blogger uses search analytics<\/a> to ID murder victim cops would not name<\/p>

Tuesday saw the publication of one of the stupidest science articles<\/a> I’ve read in a while. It’s the latest entry in the ongoing debate about whether science journalists should check their copy with their sources (note: copy, not facts). It is such a blisteringly naive view of journalism, science, peer review and people. Seth Mnookin sums up the debate to date and then slaps the “exercise in idiocy<\/a>“. Emily Willingham also has a great takedown<\/a>.<\/p>

Would you leave your Internet passwords in your will<\/a>? Yes, along with a list of everyone I’ve always wanted to slap…<\/p>

What the Wall Street Journal have done is the paper equivalent of sitting at your desk and hitting F5 on your blog<\/a>.<\/p>

Daily Mail<\/a> to launch Page 2 corrections column. Would it not be simpler to devote the page to a list of correct facts?<\/p>

This is what feminist bloggers<\/a> have to put up with. We live in a world with people like this.<\/p>

Upcoming Photoshop feature de-blurs shaky-cam photos<\/a><\/p>

Three Quarks Daily<\/a> is an amazing site that is asking for, and deserves, a small donation to keep going.<\/p>

The Guardian opens up its newslist<\/a>. A very interesting move.<\/p>

How actual infographics<\/a> are made. She makes it look so easy.<\/p>

The uselessness of the idea that Twitter is dominated by 0.05% of users<\/a><\/p>

Twitter is dying—and it’s all your fault. <\/a>Yes, yours. No, not YOURS. You in the back. Yours.<\/p>

“The key to social media interactions<\/a> is that it leaves knowledge behind for others to find and reuse”<\/p>

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