The end-of-the-week round-up of those open tabs…
But first the photo of the week, the rings of Saturn in the distance behind Lutetia photographed in Rosetta’s flyby of Lutetia. For more details see the Rosetta blog.
(Source: The Planetary Society blog.)
OK, now those links:
- Australian anti-vaccine group’s harassment of parents covered in ABC news.
- From PLoS Medicine, What Led to the Nigerian Boycott of the Polio Vaccination Campaign? This lead to the resurgence of polio in this part of the world a few years ago.
- Ben Goldacre on a repository for news.
- Personal genomics company 23andMe presents their take on that longevity paper on their blog, The Spittoon.
- On media and forgetting how science works. (Blog post.)
- Compare those comets and asteroids (warning: large image). Lutetia (see illustration) is a big one!
- Sweet animal story: Mouse Sleeps With Scientist, Scientist Thrilled.
And a video, from NASA, Interstellar Clouds And Dark Nebulae (great viewing):
Other articles in Code for life:
What famous writer do you write like?
Describe your fantasy institute
Honey’s anti-bacterial properties found?
Temperature-induced hearing loss
Boney lumps, linkage analysis and whole genome sequencing
