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January 2007

	Health Clinical Trials Go Shopping for Subjects Just remember, if they break it, you still own it by Katie Law 31 January 2007

	Pop Culture Crichton’s Latest: More Science, Less Story. "Next" is a loosely disguised treatise on biotechnology ethics. But at least Crichton doesn't get anything wrong. by Camille Rey 31 January 2007

	Creature Feature Beak-er is Better: Anatomists find erectile tissue in Flamingo beaks. It's not the size, but what flamingos do with them that matters. by Kurt Wong 31 January 2007

	Human Nature “That Time” in Evolutionary History No one really knows why primates signed up for the Monthly Subscription by Matthew Bettelheim 31 January 2007

	Health Your Health This Week Advice for a long life: Sled with a helmet, avoid the evil man-made trans fat alternative, and go get a mammogram already by Anna Gosline 31 January 2007

	Human Nature A Rose by Any Other Name Would Look as Red Human brains seem to calibrate color vision against a standard, making up for differences in eye hardware. by Khalil A. Cassimally 31 January 2007

	Human Nature Baby’s Blues Call Cheatin’ Moms Do blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women so they can detect the offspring of an adultering mate? by Matthew Bettelheim 24 January 2007

	Health Your Health This Week Advice for a long life: swim safely, stay in prison, drink cranberry juice and keep a lid on your anger by Anna Gosline 24 January 2007

	Pop Culture For Those About to Hypothesize: We Salute You A top-ten list to brighten the day of even the most oppressed Petri-dish slave. by Kate Fink 24 January 2007

	Fun with Food Orange-Hued Bangers Do Good By Your Heart A pinch of orange peel keeps porky flavor in low-fat sausages by Katie Law 24 January 2007

	Travel Science Bloggers Avoid the Spinach Dip Brush-Off A cocktail of lessons from last week's Science Blogging Conference by Eva Amsen 24 January 2007

	Health Fighting Malaria with Mosquitoes Malaria researchers learn to hijack mosquitoes' immune tricks for good by Kurt Wong 24 January 2007

	Creature Feature Baby Pandas Face a Hard Road Ahead Zoos are awash in birth announcements and cutesy videos. But is the giant panda's future any more secure? by Anna Gosline 17 January 2007

	Travel Captain Cook’s Kiwi Adventures! Our reporter tackles the knee-shredding descent to Captain Cook’s New Zealand hideout by Kristin Abkemeier 17 January 2007

	Health The Indelicate Art of Gender Testing A failed gender test cost Santhi Soundarajan her silver medal. Did her chromosomes let her down? by Katie Law 17 January 2007

	Funny ha ha Jeans Versus Genes: the Ultimate Scientific Discourse A Gap Ad Celebrity Speaks to a Geneticist by Dave Ng 17 January 2007

	Human Nature Babies Renounce Racial Profiling Infants learn to ignore differences between faces of races rarely encountered. So why are they so good with monkey faces? by Katie Yoshida 17 January 2007

	Pop Culture PBS Science TV: The Verdict Three smashing science pilots point to great GeekTV on the horizon by Camille Rey 17 January 2007

	Underwired Hack that Roomba Dance Roomba Dance! It vaccums and rocks out to the beat of your itunes. by Stephanie Gower 09 January 2007

	Space Have We Colonized Space Without Even Noticing? There's been at least one human in orbit since 2000. Is this the start of our move into space? by Matt Brown 09 January 2007

	Pop Culture 80s Science TV 3-2-1 Contact taught us to love science with stories. Does today's Internet-fueled TV do the same? by Megan Mansell Williams 09 January 2007

	Pop Culture Movie Review: The Children of Men Here's to hoping that life doesn't imitate art. by Camille Rey 09 January 2007

	Fun with Food Haute chocolate molécule Luxury chocolate has never been so lush or nerdy by Tania Rabesandratana 09 January 2007

	Pop Culture Choose your own..PBS science series PBS is airing three pilot science programs. And they're asking the audience to help select one that goes on to a full series. by Camille Rey 09 January 2007

	Pop Culture Science’s New Year’s Resolutions In 2007, I, Science, resolve to: by Science 02 January 2007

	Travel The Serious Pursuit of African Science A glimpse into the lives of African scientists through the eyes of a filmmaker by Alom Shaha 02 January 2007

	Travel A Trip to the Beijing Planetarium Our intrepid traveler solves the mystery of a 500 year old meteorite, an ancient goddess and modern art by Kristin Abkemeier 02 January 2007

	Human Nature The Genetics of Your Hairdo A little gene called Frizzled-6 is the key to your coif by Mason Inman 02 January 2007

	Human Nature You are what you listen to Gay men like musicals, the rich love opera and hip-hoppers are libertarians by Tania Rabesandratana 02 January 2007

	Art ‘n Shit Puppetry of the Face Artnatomy is a powerful tool that fuses muscular biology and classical art exercise. But mostly it's plain fun. by Tania Rabesandratana 02 January 2007

	Human Nature The Chronicle of Obstreperous Hypotheses: Are Humans Going to Speciate? You bet your teeth-whitening toothpaste they are! by Christopher Mims 02 January 2007