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October’s Scishimi: Slaying Krakens and taking names.

Brian Switek destroys the lovely image of an artistic Kraken, and Kevin Zelnio rightfully calls him out for it.

Carl gushes over the world’s biggest virus.

The best abstract ever. No, really. You’ll see.

Because one can never hear enough about hagfish slime.

I simply can’t top a title like “Piercing the Paleolithic Penis”.

The death of a whale, in paper cut-outs.

Glowing review of the scientific importance of glowing creatures.

Apparently, placebos are kind of like marijuana.

Oh yeah – and there are over 7 billion people on Earth now. Just FYI.

Vertebrates used to have a sixth sense.

Bathrooms are gross. Though we could try and make them less gross.

Extinction slows evolution.

Your friends are screwing with your head.

Important information: you can chuck a bone spear through a car (oh, and something about mastodons).

Settled, not settled – or neither.

Can we use fMRI to catch pedophiles? Should we?

Sperm donors have great personalities.

Science fiction donates terms to science.

Birth control pills don’t make your relationship better.

Also, Halloween happened. Apparently vampires are addicts – though Layla Eplett has a good recipe for drinking blood.

And finally, a little love:

This Week’s Scishimi: Spoiler Alert

What’s your favorite scientific name? I still put my vote on Crepidula fornicata.

Science graffiti. Nuff said.

Turns out spoilers don’t actually spoil the fun – go figure.

Aug 11th was Passions of Food Day at SciAm Blogs. Check out all the posts!

Climate change is killing off oysters.

Who says petitions don’t work? Food Network stops using shark meat in response to 30,000 signatures.

Yodel-e-hi-hoo…. The science of yodelling.

Did you hear? Gossip affects your vision.

5 things you really don’t want hacked. Hint: your iPhone isn’t one of them.

Scientists want more kids, but don’t have them.

Antioxidants. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing.

Planet of the Apes portrays bad scientists.

Apparently, no one likes bookstores anymore.

This Week’s Scishimi: Rock, Paper, Sexism and More

I hate to admit this, but I’m not perfect. Stuff happens, even sciencey stuff, and I don’t write about it. It’s not that I don’t want to write about all this cool science-y stuff, but the sad fact is I’m only human, and even I need to eat, sleep and somehow get a PhD at the same time. So, instead of trying and failing to be a one-stop shop for all that is science, “Scishimi” is going to be my weekly round-up of my favorite weird, nerdy, cool and somewhat science-related articles and blog posts. Enjoy!

First up, Ed Yong reveals how to excel at Rock, Paper, Scissors – which I almost always lose at, BTW (I tend to start with rock).

In an unintended tag-team, Eric Michael Johnson explains the evolutionary drivers of sexism, then a few of the commenters on Jennifer Ouellette’s amazing post on sexism in science demonstrate exactly the kind of thing he’s talking about.

Is Google making us forget things? Hold on, I know I was going somewhere with that…

Apparently, taller people are at a higher risk of getting cancer. Take that, supermodels! A WIN for 5’4″ little ‘ole me!

FYI: Breakfast alters your brain structure. As Scicurious explains, it’s yet another brain study that screws with your head.

Sea life. *giggle*

Jennifer Frazer tells us all about worm-like jellyfish that have conquered the land. Seriously?! (Yes.)

Lastly, for good measure: how to formally cite a blog post. So now you know.

If you write or see a great post you want me to include next time around, tweet it at me. I’ll see what I can do.