Kate reviews the latest paper by Ellen Ketterson et al. and since she did it so well, I decided not to do it myself, as it comes too close to my own stuff…
Mountain Top Removal? See why this is not a good idea.
Two conservatives, two views on environmentalism (and no, I will not go into details why I disagree with both of them):
The Embrace of Environmentalism Will Be the Doom of Traditional Religion
Interview with Seymour Garte, Author of Where We Stand
The Mystery of the Sleepy Teenager – pay attention!
Raleigh News & Observer covers the local angle on the story about queen honeybee pheromones.
In the same issue in which it showcased feminist bloggers (including Feministe, Feministing, Pandagon and Echidne of the Snakes), Newsweek also had an article on the 10 hottest nerds, who are supposedly the “10 of the most esteemed biologists” in the world. But, as Jonathan noted, all of them are old, white, rich, politically powerful bosses of big genomics labs. Those are not the revolutionaries for the 21st century as Newsweek says. I can, in a matter of a few seconds, come up with 10 names of brilliant biologists who are young, female or non-white and truly poised to change biology in the 21st century, none of whom work in genomics, and that is just those I have met in person! You add your own names….
The first World Toilet Summit, organized by World Toilet Organization (via Thomas Goetz).

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