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New on beauty (attractiveness):
The FoxNews title may be a laconic Non Sequitur, but Kate and Dave explain why men really prefer beautiful women.
New on panadaptionism:
The Tree of Life:
Adaptationomics Award #1 – Wolbachia DNA sneaking into host genomes
Evolgen:
I’M IN UR GENOME, ADAPTING UR HOST-SYMBIONT RELATIONSHIP
Sandwalk:
Dennett on Adaptationism
The Evolution Poll of Sandwalk Readers
Pondering Pikaia:
Thoughts on the future of ears
The Anterior Commissure:
Why we bond – individual recognition, evolution, and brain size
New on Open Access:
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on the PRISM coalition (pdf).
Gavin Baker is guest-blogging on Terra Incognita: Open Access Journal Literature is an Open Educational Resource
Roarmap is a Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies around the world. Is your institution/country on there?
Peter Murray-Rast has a whole series of posts on his saga to access his very own paper that was supposed to be Open Access, but apparently is not – the beginning is here and the summary is here.
New on Journalistic Ethics:
When bloggers painstakingly cite and link to their sources when uncovering an important story, they get slammed for being unreliable. But when a “real” newspaper, like New York Times, “forgets” to give proper attribution, that is supposedly OK. Or is it?
New on political blogging
Should bloggers endorse candidates? Why not? I am certainly not pretending to be an unbiased commentator on the primary race. You all know who is my man so consider this the official endorsement.