Some more entertaining & educational reading for you while I’m away :-) This time it’s from the Bug Girl’s Blog, where the eponymous Bug Girl describes as ‘egregious’ the headline Fruit Fly Sperm Makes Females Do Housework After Sex. Visit the Bug Girl’s place to find out not only what egregious means, but also why she’s so annoyed about the headline. (I would have written an ‘annoyed’ something too, if I’d found the news item myself!)
do flies do housework? Alison Campbell Dec 08
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June
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May
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April
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March
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February
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January
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2009
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December
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- holiday photos
- do flies do housework?
- re-post: a worm, but not as we know it
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- please do not adjust your set
- gannet monogamy model moot
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November
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- facilitated communication?
- evolutionary image... fail
- off to entertain at cafe scientifique
- regulating supplements
- whence the nucleus?
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- what's in the water?
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October
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- another contender for 'best blog post title'
- people can believe some very strange things...
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- two ends of the science spectrum
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- please do not adjust your set...
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September
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- thoughts on xenotransplantation
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