- Sandeep Pingle – Dedifferentiation – Turning Back the Cellular Clock   – David Bressan – January 11, 1771: The Birthday of Lake Alleghe   – Caleb A. Scharf – Surreal Lunar Orbit Footage From Doomed GRAIL Mission   – DNLee – Feministing Friday: Obsessing over my look and what to do with my hair [...]

Today we have a new Video of the Week. – Caren Cooper – The Most Stressful Science Problem   – Kyle Hill – Saving Lives in Serenity: Can a Fanboy and Physics Change a Movie?   – Evelyn Lamb – Where in the World Are the Odd Perfect Numbers?   – Christie Wilcox – Fake [...]

- Laura Jane Martin – #OverlyHonestMethods, or #SoGladWe’reHavingThisConversation   – Christian Orlic – The Origins of Directed Panspermia   – David Wogan – Australia’s Climate Bureau: get used to record breaking heat   – DNLee – NABJ Proposal: Science 101 for Journalists or So, You want to be a Science Writer?   – Caleb A. [...]

- Shannon Palus – Paying with plastic: not just for credit cards   – Judy Stone – A Clinical Trial and Suicide Leave Many Questions: Part 4: The University of Minnesota’s Response   – Scott Huler – Oil Might Be a Natural Resource, and Other Things You Did Not Know   – John R. Platt [...]

I’m back from vacation, and so is the Image of the Week. – Cheryl Murphy – Go Go Gadget Eyes…and Brain   – Christie Wilcox – Parasitic Wasps Master Microbiology In Addition To Neurochemistry   – Scicurious – Citizen Science, Citizen Policy   – S.E. Gould – Not all biofilms are equal: The hyper-biofilm of [...]

I am very excited to announce the launch of the newest blog on our network. Now, our regular readers are probably familiar with the name – Evelyn Lamb (Twitter), who was an intern at Scientific American last fall, and continues to freelance for us now, mainly covering math. You can read about her experience at [...]

- Elaine Schattner – Hillary Clinton, Hospitalized with a Blood Clot, Faces New Decisions   – Rob Dunn – Eleven Ways to Avoid Answering a Question: A Year in Review   – Christie Wilcox – Expensive Organs: Guppies Reveal The Cost Of Big Brains and Science Sushi: 2012 in Review   – Jennifer Frazer – [...]

- Ben Thomas – Meaning on the Brain: How Your Mind Organizes Reality   – Karthika Muthukumaraswamy – Climate Model Coverage: Far from Model Journalism   – Ingmar Hoerr – Cancer Immunotherapy—Where Are We Going?   – Caleb A. Scharf – Should We Expect Other Earth-like Planets At All?   – John R. Platt – [...]

I will be on vacation all next week, so next installment of the evening linkfest will come on January 3rd. In the meantime, check the blogs anyway – using the feeds, bookmarks or social media, or whichever way you prefer to keep up with your favourite science bloggers. Have a great holiday! – Kyle Hill [...]

- Rob Dunn – What If God Were a Maggot   – David L. Levine – The Newtown Shootings – The View from 300.01   – Jason G. Goldman – Is Orangutan Culture Made of Ideas?   – Ashutosh Jogalekar – Chemistry and Biology: Kuhnian or Galisonian?   – Dana Hunter – What’s So Unusual [...]