- Risk of death by Russian Roulette in Kentucky is one in a million (per year) – via Tyler Cowen.
- Rape is rape, Mr. Akin.
- Shipping pallets, the sine qua non of the global economy – via Cory Doctorow.
- If you are going to pick an arbitrary day to bask in the glory of Singin’ in the Rain (and Donald O’Connor‘s vaudevillian genius), the 100th birthday of Gene Kelly (star & co-director) is as good as any – via Maria Popova.
- How to annoy EO Wilson without criticizing group selection by Michelle Nijhuis.
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Mike wrote about gene patents for Pacific Standard.
Michele has a guest post at Scientific American's Symbiartic blog.
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@finchandpea
- Schrödinger's cat is named SUSY thefinchandpea.com/2013/05/18/sci… Science #Caturday from @artologica 1 day ago
Josh Witten
- RT @BiIIMurray: I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I'm stressing about for absolutely no … 12 minutes ago
Mike White
- RT @edyong209: Oh, and Brian Clegg's comment on that "critical science journalism" piece absolutely nails it. guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2… 3 days ago
Marie-Claire Shanahan
Michele Banks
- I wonder if "raised by humans" is a wolf insult. zooborns.com/zooborns/2013/… 1 hour ago
Sarah Naylor
- RT @FASEBopa: Thanks everyone who retweeted our latest #NIH funding trends slides & analysis. bit.ly/19FDFKe 2 days ago
Heidi Smith
- RT @SensoryEcology: RT @BMC_series: 1st study looking for migration genes in #birds using 2 subspecies of migrating willow warblers http://… 9 hours ago
Eva Amsen
- Am at #asm2013. Bad at livetweeting, but I'm at stand 532. Already got a visit from @JennyRohn - who's next? (Talking is the new tweeting!) 1 hour ago
