Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Nanotube yarn twists like muscles
2. Ancient "paint factory" unearthed
3. Military seeks sensor to gauge brain's reaction to stories
4. Cyclops shark appears legit
5. Hidden Antarctic lake may host mystery life
6. Psychopaths revealed by computer analysis
7. Computing building blocks created from bacteria and DNA
8. Forgetting is part of remembering
9. Dark matter mystery deepens
10. Robotic bug gets wings, sheds light on evolution of flight
11. Archaeologists find "blade production lines" existed as much as 400,000 years ago
12. Protecting the brain when energy runs low
13. Scientists reveal surprising picture of how powerful antibody neutralizes HIV

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

1. Prehistoric dog found with mammoth bone in its mouth
2. Meet LUCA (last universal common ancestor)
3. Time capsule housed 114 year old human bacteria
4. Smell-o-vision
5. Another reason to eat more chocolate
6. Alzheimer's: can you catch it?
7. Please welcome Megavirus, the world's ginormous virus
8. Dawn of the biohackers
9. British scientists hope to discover Earth's secrets in ancient Antarctic lake
10. The way you hold your drink reveals key personality traits
11. Lair of ancient 'kraken' sea monster possibly discovered
12. The nanotechnology of Sundew and English Ivy
13. Dead sea scrolls get new life online

Thursday 13: Round up of Science /Humanities

I'm going to do something a bit different. I've always liked Thursday 13, but I thought I would use it as an opportunity to cross-link the round up of science/humanities articles that I've found particularly interesting around the net this week.

1. Man's Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer
2. Fossils Revise Human Evolution Theories
3. Hair Chemistry Could Help Solve Cold Cases
4. New Emotion Detector can See When We're Lying
5. Egypt's Ancient Fleet: Lost for Thousands of Years, Found in Desolate Cave
6. Enzyme Might be Target for Treating Smoking and Alcoholism
7. Sea Urchins See with their Whole Body
8. Powered by Seaweed, Polymer from Algae may Improve Battery Performance
9. Blood Vessels from Your Printer?
10. New Species of Ancient Predatory Fish Discovered
11. Can Scientists Look at Next Year's Climate?
12. The Lost Plague: London's Graveyards Suggest that Black Death Strain May be Extinct
13. Bacteria Use Electric Wires to Uranium out of Groundwater

Ereader articles

According to the Association of American Publishers, in 2010, ebook sales doubled, making up 9% of total book sales. With all the different readers now out there-- Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, and now ipad-- there's definitely a lot of option out there. Although I for one won't be getting one for awhile (I love the physical copy of a book too much), I do see the potential for them and think that it's an exciting time for authors as epublishers gain not only more recognition but sales. It's been a long time for authors who epub and I'm excited at all the changes I'm seeing and I can't wait to see ebooks grow.

As I was going through articles today, I found these about ereaders and the pros and cons. Check them out:

Growth of eBooks and eReaders
How Many eBooks Spare a Tree?