Tracking the Ocean’s Circadian Rhythm by Christina Reed at Simons Foundation: ![]()
How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time by Veronique Greenwood at Quanta Magazine:
Myth of the ‘Missing Link’ in evolution does science no favors by Sean Nee at The Conversation:
And if that is not enough, more readings for later this weekend:
Researchers have discovered a better way to wait in line, and you’re going to hate it by Ana Swanson at Wonkblog
Interview: Rachel Armstrong, Innovative Scientist Who Wants to Grow Architecture by Alessia Andreotti at Next Nature
A Deep Dive into What Exxon Knew About Global Warming and When (1978) it Knew It by ANDREW C. REVKIN at Dot Earth
California's Mountains Are At A 500-Year Snow Low by William Herkewitz at Popular Mechanics
Scientists have revived a 30,000 year-old prehistoric virus by Jennifer Welsh and Guia Marie Del Prado at Tech Insider
Dinosaur skeletons aren’t decor – they shouldn’t be sold to the highest bidder by Brian Switek at Comment is free
The world’s 3 trillion trees, mapped by Chris Mooney at Washington Post
Hydropower: Does NC's Original Renewable Have A Place In Its Future? by Dave DeWitt at WUNC
Photograph 51: how do you bring science to the stage? by Stephen Curry at Occam's corner
Happier People Are Raised By Parents Who Do These Two Things by Dr Jeremy Dean at PsyBlog
How I Became a Crowd-Sourced Zoologist by Zach St. George at Nautilus
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great. by @POTUS at Twitter
The Book No One Read: Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention. by Lee Billings at Nautilus
Get Buried in an Egg and Turn Into a Tree by Zara Stone at Ozy
Bats save corn farmers $1 billion per year by Russell McLendon at MNN
Using Melatonin To Help Children Fall Asleep by Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE at Seattle Mama Doc
A Pregnancy Souvenir: Cells That Are Not Your Own by Carl Zimmer at NYTimes
Alphabet Hires Director Of National Institute Of Mental Health by Alexandra Ossola at Popular Science
Paleo People Were Making Flour 32,000 Years Ago by Jeremy Cherfas at The Salt
So Funny, It Doesn't Hurt: Can improv be a form of therapy? Some psychologists think so. by Kathleen Toohill at The Atlantic
Obama Seeks Psychological Help with Climate Change by Evan Lehmann at ClimateWire
Liberals swear more on Twitter than rightwingers, says study by Ian Sample at Guardian
Philosophy and reality by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
Caffeine at night is an even worse idea than we thought by Blair Shiff at 9News
Why storing solar energy and using it at night is closer than you think by Chris Mooney at Washington Post
What Comes After Heirloom Seeds? by Michael Tortorello at The New Yorker
Citizen science community responds to Nature editorial at Citizen Science Association
Handmade boats bring citizen science to the Mystic River by Elizabeth Preston at BetaBoston
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/17/9347361/wildfire-management-prescribed-burn by Brad Plumer at Vox
For Entertainment! For School! For News! For Fact-Checking! Why do people read science blogs? by Paige Brown Jarreau at FromTheLabBench
The Mystery of the Appalachian Bend by Dan Lewis at Now I Know
A time to remember by Jessa Gamble at The Last Word On Nothing
Aquarium Corals of Anchorage Poison 10 1/2 Humans, Two Dogs, and One Cat by Jennifer Frazer at The Artful Amoeba
'Invisibility cloak' could turn beer bellies into six-packs by Ian Sample at Guardian
2015 Ig Nobel prizes: dinosaur-like chickens and bee-stings to the penis by Alan Yuhas at Guardian
Hyperbolic Pascal triangles and other stories by Gianluigi Filippelli at Doc Madhattan
Humps, lumps and fatty tissues in dinosaurs, starring Camarasaurus by Mark Witton at Mark Witton's blog
Sex robots are actually going to be good for humanity by Kate Devlin at Quartz
A Brief History of Toilet-Based Animal Attacks by Forrest Wickman at Slate
Not Up for Debate: The Science Behind Vaccination by Aaron E. Carroll at The Upshot
Want To Take the Best US Road Trip? According to a Scientific Algorithm, Here’s Your Map! by Randy Olson at Conscious Life News
Your City's New 4-Legged Lawn Mower by Farah Halime at Ozy
20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decisions by Jennifer M Wood at Mental Floss
Can DNA Evidence Solve a 30-Year-Old Crime? by James Vlahos at The Atlantic
Pushing the Limits: Merging the power of multiple brains at CBS News
Marine life needs protection from noise pollution by Emma Brown at Nature
Wasps Have Genetically Modified Butterflies, Using Viruses by Douglas Main at Newsweek
Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Epidemic by Simon Davis at The Atlantic
Patent for first method to create human sperm, but does it work? by Andy Coghlan at New Scientist
The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley review – the rightwing libertarian gets it wrong by John Gray at Guardian
Parent planning – we shouldn’t be allowed to choose our children’s sex by Tamara Kayali Browne at The Ethics Centre Blog
Read/write access to your genomes? Using the past to jump to the future by Razib Khan at Genes to Genomes
Missing the Soil for the Seeds in Cancer Research by Claudia Fischbach at SA Guest Blog
5 Important New Insights About Why We Get Angry by Todd B Kashdan Ph.D. at The Creativity Post
Caffeine In Coffee May Throw Off Circadian Rhythm, And All It Takes Is One Double Espresso by Samantha Olson at Medical Daily
Climate Change Is the Moonshot of Our Times by Martin Rees at Facts So Romantic
An archaeobotanical exploration of poo by Karen Stewart at Mola
Healthy as a Horse? by Doctor Ramey at David Ramey, DVM
or Entertainment! For School! For News! For Fact-Checking! Why do people read science blogs? by Paige Brown Jarreau at From The Lab Bench
It's Time To Get Serious About Reducing Food Waste, Feds Say by Allison Aubrey at The Salt
Google's NIH health hire: Smartphones can detect mental health breakdowns by Kayt Sukel at Fortune
The Problematic Obsession With ‘Curing’ Autism by Jesse Singal at Science Of Us
Finding Your Way Home by Peter Godfrey-Smith at Boston Review
The "Black Piranha" of Ascension Island by Steven Bedard at Expeditions
How to Restart an Ecosystem by Greg Carr at Nautilus
Fighting apatosaur art #1: Brian Engh and Fighting apatosaur art #2: Brian Engh again by Mike Taylor at Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
“We’re still dealing with autism like it’s this wacky historical aberration”: Steve Silberman on the truth about autism by Michael Schulson at Salon
Carl Safina On Wild Wolves And Bottle-Fed Squirrels by Barbara J. King at NHPR
7 scientific studies too weird to believe by Kelly Dickerson at Tech Insider
Why do we read blogs, anyway? by Paige Brown at Medium
Why every school should bring dogs into the classroom by Chris Weller at Tech Insider
Does genome size affect fitness in seed beetles? by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
When Alice, Wittgenstein, and Russell met at the Mad Hatters Tea Party by Eric Gerlach at The Philosopher
How To Print Your Own 3D Replicas Of Homo Naledi And Other Hominin Fossils by Kristina Killgrove at Forbes
Why we need predators by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
Preserving Tattoos Of The Dead Is A Little Macabre But Not New by Kristina Killgrove at Forbes
It Is Incredibly Difficult to Obtain an Evolution Education by Glenn Geher Ph.D. at Darwin's Subterranean World
A Parent's Nightmare by Kristin Foss at The Winnower
Weekend Diversion: Mockery Gets You Nowhere by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
Captive Snake With No Male Companion Gives Birth, Again by Jim Salter at Time
‘Tree of Life’ for 2.3 Million Species Released by Robin A. Smith at Duke Today
A Peek Inside the Pluto Public Relations Machine by Kirk Englehardt at The Leap
Do Wild Dogs Sleep as Much as Your Pets? by C. CLAIBORNE RAY at NYTimes
What We'll Need To Have A Successful Human Colony On Mars by Ethan Siegel at Forbes
9 Years of Muck, Mud and Debate in Java by RACHEL NUWER at NYTimes
Scott Aaronson on "The theorem that proves rationalists can't disagree" by Julia Galef at Rationally Speaking
Why is the scientific revolution still controversial? by Ian Sample at Science Weekly
Introducing the All-Female Team of Scientists Who Discovered Homo Naledi by Maddy Myers at Mary Sue
Fish Fate by Dorit Eliyahu at The Drawer's Drawer
Meet the Gemini Radar Evaluation Pod by Amy Shira Teitel at Vintage Space
Previously in this series:
FieldNotes: a view to spotted horses in the morning
FieldNotes: The Word For World is Blue (or is it Gold?)
FieldNotes: Golden Mean, polite middle-ground, and optimal numbers of legs.
FieldNotes: speeding up and slowing down time
FieldNotes: from Captain Ahab to Jeff Goldblum, chasing the giants
FieldNotes: this is not your grandparents' neuroscience!
FieldNotes: Brontosaurus in, Food Babe out.
FieldNotes: Rogue Microwave Ovens Call Home
FieldNotes: Let the sleeping apes lie
FieldNotes: one thing leads to another leads to another
FieldNotes: Seductive Allure of Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
FieldNotes: do African horses do flehmen at the sight of Derby hats?
FieldNotes: How The Bird Got Its Beak
FieldNotes: When Snakes Had Legs...
FieldNotes: Only before the bicameral mind evolved could people fall for Bohannon's cheap stunts
FieldNotes: Water, fire, origin of life, origin of cooking.
FieldNotes: Jurassic World, and other strange animals...
FieldNotes: Honey Badger Don’t Care!
FieldNotes: Hallucigenia is back on its head again.
FieldNotes: Poisonous and grieving quail, reclusive rail, and giants!
FieldNotes: When Snark was a Boojum
FieldNotes: In a grip of the legs of a snake
FieldNotes: Cecil and grief
FieldNotes: Science Notes and high school start times
FieldNotes: Earthly Octopus Genome, and Elephant Tracking
FieldNotes: Amplituhedron and the dissection of cats
FieldNotes: Oliver Sacks, and irreproducible psychology
FieldNotes: Hand-drawn biology, wearing rubber gloves, and the invention of the submarine
FieldNotes: Homo naledi, #IStandWithAhmed and NatGeo Fox
Images:
Laguna Design/Science Source
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To a distant observer on the Pacific waters north of the island of Oahu, Hawai’i, two ships seemed to be engaged in an odd dance. One would remain stationary while the other cruised ahead — but to nowhere in particular. Instead, it casually chased two buoys drifting several meters below the surface. After a time, the second ship would adjust its bow thruster, kick in its diesel engines and race to catch up with the leading ship. But there was sound science behind the maritime jockeying. For nearly two weeks this summer, the 46 scientists onboard were investigating the ‘days in the life’ of the smallest ocean creatures in an effort to fully understand the microbial ecology that underpins the marine food chain. It was the first expedition of the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE), and preliminary results suggest that the wealth of data obtained will answer many questions about ocean microbiology.....
Carrie Partch was at the tail end of her postdoc when she made the first discovery. The structural biologist was looking at a database of human proteins, noting those that shared a piece with the ones she’d been studying. “I was just sort of flipping through it thinking, ‘I should know all of these,’” she recalls. “Then this one came up, and it had a different domain architecture than I’d ever seen.” She looked further into the protein, called PASD1, whose function was unknown. She found that among the few proteins it resembled was one called CLOCK. And that made her sit up straighter — because CLOCK is at the heart of a very large, mysterious process......Coffee Time: How caffeine shifts our circadian clocks. by Rachel E. Gross at Slate:
Caffeine is America’s favorite (legal) white powder. You may know intimately the contours of its high: the jump in your step, the buzz in your brain, that jolt that renders you oh so gloriously and involuntarily alert. In a new study, researchers have quantified the effect of this potent stimulant on your circadian rhythm and explained how it works not just on your brain but also on the cells in your body. Caffeine was already known to alter the circadian clock in red bread mold, green algae, fruit flies, and sea snails. But humans were liable to be a little different. For the first half of the study, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the University of Colorado–Boulder measured how caffeine influenced the circadian rhythms of five human caffeine consumers over 49 days.....
Myth of the ‘Missing Link’ in evolution does science no favors by Sean Nee at The Conversation:
This spring, the world learned of a newly discovered missing link between microbes and humans called Lokiarchaeota. The actual story is that the microbe Lokiarchaeota, discovered on the deep sea floor by a hydrothermal vent called Loki’s Castle, shares features with both bacteria and us. The spin is that this makes it a missing link between the two. Microbiologists have been discreetly quiet about this narrative fiction; although the microbe is fascinating, and so deserves the spotlight, it is no more a missing link than the platypus is a missing link between ducks and humans. This missing link imagery, based on the idea that evolution is a methodical process with logical, continuous connections to be discovered and mapped, might set up a good story. But it’s wrong – and can detrimentally influence our understanding of immediately threatening processes like the rapid evolution of flu.......Should Apes Be Saved From Ebola? by Caleb Hellerman at The Atlantic:
Flat on her back on a gurney, the chimpanzee is an unsettling sight: Around 130 pounds, the animal is limp, with drool pouring from corner of her mouth, a common side effect of sedation. She looks helpless, like a patient laid out on a hospital bed. But this chimp isn’t hurt; she’s been anesthetized, knocked out so a veterinarian can give her an experimental vaccine against Ebola—a disease that’s been quietly devastating Africa’s primate population since long before last year’s outbreak began. The most recent Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, but smaller outbreaks have been erupting at least since the 1970s. Ebola is a zoonosis, a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people, and by some measures its impact on animal populations has been even more dramatic than its effect on the people of west Africa. Hard numbers are hard to come by, but some conservationists estimate that Ebola has wiped out around a third of the world’s wild chimpanzees and gorillas over the past few decades.....Domestication Seems to Have Made Dogs a Bit Dim by Rachel Nuwer at Smithsonian:
Dogs are considered some of the most intelligent animals on the planet. Thanks to a relationship with humans that dates back tens of thousands of years, dogs can respond to emotions, recognize numerous words and be trained to follow commands. Notably, these seemingly smart accomplishments all hinge on the partnership between our two species. Now, however, tests of canine problem-solving skills indicate that dogs rely on humans so much that we actually seem to be dumbing them down........New Evidence The Nazis Didn't Come Close To The Bomb by Carmen Drahl at Forbes:
With World War II raging, a team of scientists in the U.S. got a top-secret mission: harness nuclear energy. They succeeded, as we now know, and they ushered in the Atomic Age with the mushroom clouds that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But before that point, as the researchers toiled day and night, one question haunted them: How close were the Nazis to a nuclear weapon of their own? The answer is they weren’t very close at all. According to an investigation published this month in the journal Angewandte Chemie, 1940s uranium samples from Germany don’t show evidence of a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction— the chemical underpinnings of an atomic bomb. The study adds scientific support to historical accounts that the Germans didn’t succeed in their wartime nuclear aspirations. An international team carried out the investigation, led by Maria Wallenius, a radiochemist who coordinates nuclear forensics analysis at the Institute for Transuranium Elements, part of the European Commission’s in-house science service........Is Homo naledi just a primitive version of Homo erectus? by John Hawks at john hawks weblog:
We’ve gotten lots of feedback on the new species Homo naledi. Most has been enormously positive, a little bit has been critical. In particular, a few scientists have come forward with criticism of the idea that H. naledi is really a new species. Fortunately I can address those criticisms easily by pointing to some easy-to-find answers.....Why Do We Admire Mobsters? by Maria Konnikova at The New Yorker:
In 1947, when Elaine Slott was sixteen, she travelled with her mother and sister to visit her aunt and uncle in Florida. The day after they arrived, however, Elaine and her aunt boarded another plane by themselves. Elaine soon found herself speeding to Cuba, where the family had business interests. Elaine remembers that night well. After they landed, she and her aunt left Havana and drove for several hours into areas that seemed increasingly remote. It was very late and very dark when they finally arrived at a stately house. Along with a few guests, a number of family members, including Elaine’s uncle, had gathered there for a dinner party. Their host, who had been cooking pasta, emerged from the kitchen wearing a white apron. He introduced himself to Elaine as Charlie......How NASA Is Solving the Space Food Problem by Elizabeth Preston at Eater:
When admiral George Anson reached the shore of England in 1744, four years after setting sail, he brought fewer than half the 2,000 men he'd left with. Most of his crew had died of scurvy, and eventually, even the survivors were too weak to throw the bodies overboard. But according to NASA nutritionist Scott Smith, Anson had it easy. Like other ill-fated expeditions, Anson's was ravaged by a single missing nutrient: vitamin C. Yet he was at least traveling where some food existed. Astronauts on the long-distance voyages of the future will have to bring all their own food, and it will have to contain the right quantities of every vitamin and mineral they need. Scurvy's just the start of what could go wrong. "There's not one nutrient that you could run out of, on a three-year mission, that's not going to end badly," Smith says. Running out of nutrients is only one of the food challenges that Smith and his colleagues at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston are facing. If they succeed, they can help humankind make our next giant leap — onto Mars.....Giraffes Hum to Each Other Throughout the Night, And Zookeepers Never Noticed by Allison Eck at PBS Nova:
Until now, giraffe caretakers had reason to believe that their long-necked vegetarian friends were strictly silent beings. A 13-foot-long trachea isn’t exactly conducive to easy vocalization. Scientists assumed that, if anything, giraffes—like elephants—might produce infrasonic (ultra-low) sounds below the range of human hearing. But without the data to back it up, researchers couldn’t guarantee that giraffes weren’t simply producing audible noises out of human earshot. So a team at the University of Vienna painstakingly gathered 947 hours of giraffe noises over an eight-year period at three European zoos and measured their spectral characteristics, with the goal of finding out once-and-for-all whether giraffes’ socially-structured society lends itself to vocal communication.....Also see: Giraffes spend their evenings humming to each other by Karl Gruber at New Scientist. But this is not new - this was discovered way back in 1998, see: Infrasound From the Giraffe by Elizabeth von Muggenthaler at Fauna Communications and Tall Blondes, Silent Sentinels? at PBS Nature and Giraffes can talk, after all by Associated Press at The Augusta Chronicle and Do giraffes make any vocalizations? at Yahoo Answers, for examples...
And if that is not enough, more readings for later this weekend:
Researchers have discovered a better way to wait in line, and you’re going to hate it by Ana Swanson at Wonkblog
Interview: Rachel Armstrong, Innovative Scientist Who Wants to Grow Architecture by Alessia Andreotti at Next Nature
A Deep Dive into What Exxon Knew About Global Warming and When (1978) it Knew It by ANDREW C. REVKIN at Dot Earth
California's Mountains Are At A 500-Year Snow Low by William Herkewitz at Popular Mechanics
Scientists have revived a 30,000 year-old prehistoric virus by Jennifer Welsh and Guia Marie Del Prado at Tech Insider
Dinosaur skeletons aren’t decor – they shouldn’t be sold to the highest bidder by Brian Switek at Comment is free
The world’s 3 trillion trees, mapped by Chris Mooney at Washington Post
Hydropower: Does NC's Original Renewable Have A Place In Its Future? by Dave DeWitt at WUNC
Photograph 51: how do you bring science to the stage? by Stephen Curry at Occam's corner
Happier People Are Raised By Parents Who Do These Two Things by Dr Jeremy Dean at PsyBlog
How I Became a Crowd-Sourced Zoologist by Zach St. George at Nautilus
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great. by @POTUS at Twitter
The Book No One Read: Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention. by Lee Billings at Nautilus
Get Buried in an Egg and Turn Into a Tree by Zara Stone at Ozy
Bats save corn farmers $1 billion per year by Russell McLendon at MNN
Using Melatonin To Help Children Fall Asleep by Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE at Seattle Mama Doc
A Pregnancy Souvenir: Cells That Are Not Your Own by Carl Zimmer at NYTimes
Alphabet Hires Director Of National Institute Of Mental Health by Alexandra Ossola at Popular Science
Paleo People Were Making Flour 32,000 Years Ago by Jeremy Cherfas at The Salt
So Funny, It Doesn't Hurt: Can improv be a form of therapy? Some psychologists think so. by Kathleen Toohill at The Atlantic
Obama Seeks Psychological Help with Climate Change by Evan Lehmann at ClimateWire
Liberals swear more on Twitter than rightwingers, says study by Ian Sample at Guardian
Philosophy and reality by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
Caffeine at night is an even worse idea than we thought by Blair Shiff at 9News
Why storing solar energy and using it at night is closer than you think by Chris Mooney at Washington Post
What Comes After Heirloom Seeds? by Michael Tortorello at The New Yorker
Citizen science community responds to Nature editorial at Citizen Science Association
Handmade boats bring citizen science to the Mystic River by Elizabeth Preston at BetaBoston
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/17/9347361/wildfire-management-prescribed-burn by Brad Plumer at Vox
For Entertainment! For School! For News! For Fact-Checking! Why do people read science blogs? by Paige Brown Jarreau at FromTheLabBench
The Mystery of the Appalachian Bend by Dan Lewis at Now I Know
A time to remember by Jessa Gamble at The Last Word On Nothing
Aquarium Corals of Anchorage Poison 10 1/2 Humans, Two Dogs, and One Cat by Jennifer Frazer at The Artful Amoeba
'Invisibility cloak' could turn beer bellies into six-packs by Ian Sample at Guardian
2015 Ig Nobel prizes: dinosaur-like chickens and bee-stings to the penis by Alan Yuhas at Guardian
Hyperbolic Pascal triangles and other stories by Gianluigi Filippelli at Doc Madhattan
Humps, lumps and fatty tissues in dinosaurs, starring Camarasaurus by Mark Witton at Mark Witton's blog
Sex robots are actually going to be good for humanity by Kate Devlin at Quartz
A Brief History of Toilet-Based Animal Attacks by Forrest Wickman at Slate
Not Up for Debate: The Science Behind Vaccination by Aaron E. Carroll at The Upshot
Want To Take the Best US Road Trip? According to a Scientific Algorithm, Here’s Your Map! by Randy Olson at Conscious Life News
Your City's New 4-Legged Lawn Mower by Farah Halime at Ozy
20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decisions by Jennifer M Wood at Mental Floss
Can DNA Evidence Solve a 30-Year-Old Crime? by James Vlahos at The Atlantic
Pushing the Limits: Merging the power of multiple brains at CBS News
Marine life needs protection from noise pollution by Emma Brown at Nature
Wasps Have Genetically Modified Butterflies, Using Viruses by Douglas Main at Newsweek
Solving the Mystery of an Ancient Epidemic by Simon Davis at The Atlantic
Patent for first method to create human sperm, but does it work? by Andy Coghlan at New Scientist
The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley review – the rightwing libertarian gets it wrong by John Gray at Guardian
Parent planning – we shouldn’t be allowed to choose our children’s sex by Tamara Kayali Browne at The Ethics Centre Blog
Read/write access to your genomes? Using the past to jump to the future by Razib Khan at Genes to Genomes
Missing the Soil for the Seeds in Cancer Research by Claudia Fischbach at SA Guest Blog
5 Important New Insights About Why We Get Angry by Todd B Kashdan Ph.D. at The Creativity Post
Caffeine In Coffee May Throw Off Circadian Rhythm, And All It Takes Is One Double Espresso by Samantha Olson at Medical Daily
Climate Change Is the Moonshot of Our Times by Martin Rees at Facts So Romantic
An archaeobotanical exploration of poo by Karen Stewart at Mola
Healthy as a Horse? by Doctor Ramey at David Ramey, DVM
or Entertainment! For School! For News! For Fact-Checking! Why do people read science blogs? by Paige Brown Jarreau at From The Lab Bench
It's Time To Get Serious About Reducing Food Waste, Feds Say by Allison Aubrey at The Salt
Google's NIH health hire: Smartphones can detect mental health breakdowns by Kayt Sukel at Fortune
The Problematic Obsession With ‘Curing’ Autism by Jesse Singal at Science Of Us
Finding Your Way Home by Peter Godfrey-Smith at Boston Review
The "Black Piranha" of Ascension Island by Steven Bedard at Expeditions
How to Restart an Ecosystem by Greg Carr at Nautilus
Fighting apatosaur art #1: Brian Engh and Fighting apatosaur art #2: Brian Engh again by Mike Taylor at Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
“We’re still dealing with autism like it’s this wacky historical aberration”: Steve Silberman on the truth about autism by Michael Schulson at Salon
Carl Safina On Wild Wolves And Bottle-Fed Squirrels by Barbara J. King at NHPR
7 scientific studies too weird to believe by Kelly Dickerson at Tech Insider
Why do we read blogs, anyway? by Paige Brown at Medium
Why every school should bring dogs into the classroom by Chris Weller at Tech Insider
Does genome size affect fitness in seed beetles? by Larry Moran at Sandwalk
When Alice, Wittgenstein, and Russell met at the Mad Hatters Tea Party by Eric Gerlach at The Philosopher
How To Print Your Own 3D Replicas Of Homo Naledi And Other Hominin Fossils by Kristina Killgrove at Forbes
Why we need predators by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
Preserving Tattoos Of The Dead Is A Little Macabre But Not New by Kristina Killgrove at Forbes
It Is Incredibly Difficult to Obtain an Evolution Education by Glenn Geher Ph.D. at Darwin's Subterranean World
A Parent's Nightmare by Kristin Foss at The Winnower
Weekend Diversion: Mockery Gets You Nowhere by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
Captive Snake With No Male Companion Gives Birth, Again by Jim Salter at Time
‘Tree of Life’ for 2.3 Million Species Released by Robin A. Smith at Duke Today
A Peek Inside the Pluto Public Relations Machine by Kirk Englehardt at The Leap
Do Wild Dogs Sleep as Much as Your Pets? by C. CLAIBORNE RAY at NYTimes
What We'll Need To Have A Successful Human Colony On Mars by Ethan Siegel at Forbes
9 Years of Muck, Mud and Debate in Java by RACHEL NUWER at NYTimes
Scott Aaronson on "The theorem that proves rationalists can't disagree" by Julia Galef at Rationally Speaking
Why is the scientific revolution still controversial? by Ian Sample at Science Weekly
Introducing the All-Female Team of Scientists Who Discovered Homo Naledi by Maddy Myers at Mary Sue
Fish Fate by Dorit Eliyahu at The Drawer's Drawer
Meet the Gemini Radar Evaluation Pod by Amy Shira Teitel at Vintage Space
Previously in this series:
FieldNotes: a view to spotted horses in the morning
FieldNotes: The Word For World is Blue (or is it Gold?)
FieldNotes: Golden Mean, polite middle-ground, and optimal numbers of legs.
FieldNotes: speeding up and slowing down time
FieldNotes: from Captain Ahab to Jeff Goldblum, chasing the giants
FieldNotes: this is not your grandparents' neuroscience!
FieldNotes: Brontosaurus in, Food Babe out.
FieldNotes: Rogue Microwave Ovens Call Home
FieldNotes: Let the sleeping apes lie
FieldNotes: one thing leads to another leads to another
FieldNotes: Seductive Allure of Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
FieldNotes: do African horses do flehmen at the sight of Derby hats?
FieldNotes: How The Bird Got Its Beak
FieldNotes: When Snakes Had Legs...
FieldNotes: Only before the bicameral mind evolved could people fall for Bohannon's cheap stunts
FieldNotes: Water, fire, origin of life, origin of cooking.
FieldNotes: Jurassic World, and other strange animals...
FieldNotes: Honey Badger Don’t Care!
FieldNotes: Hallucigenia is back on its head again.
FieldNotes: Poisonous and grieving quail, reclusive rail, and giants!
FieldNotes: When Snark was a Boojum
FieldNotes: In a grip of the legs of a snake
FieldNotes: Cecil and grief
FieldNotes: Science Notes and high school start times
FieldNotes: Earthly Octopus Genome, and Elephant Tracking
FieldNotes: Amplituhedron and the dissection of cats
FieldNotes: Oliver Sacks, and irreproducible psychology
FieldNotes: Hand-drawn biology, wearing rubber gloves, and the invention of the submarine
FieldNotes: Homo naledi, #IStandWithAhmed and NatGeo Fox
Images:
Laguna Design/Science Source