My Picks - 15 January 2012

Here is what I have been reading this week.

• A new paper clearly shows Cancer is a “moving target” and Carl Zimmer explains it.
• This is scary. Totally drug resistant TB appears in Mumbai. Just when we thought we were done with Polio.
• Look at this brief video on supercooling. A bottle of beer freezing right in front of our eyes within seconds.
• Really small frogs found. They are less than 8 mm long. It also explains how they are found.
• Where was the Mars Rover curiosity on January 12^th? See it here.
• Did you see that Google doodle on Jan 11^th. Here is the background.
• How we distinguish between faces and face like things.
• What colour is our galaxy? “The Milky Way has the right name for the wrong reasons”
• A really slow river under a glacier.
• Do you really remember what you saw correctly? Memory myths busted.
• A really nice article on synthetic biology: How to get goats to produce spider silk.
• Uranus too has rings. Did you know that?
• Terrifying. Flesh eating bacteria. “As they cut skin farther up her arm in an effort to find healthy tissue, the infection was moving so fast they could see flesh dying right before their eyes”

Here are a couple of videos for which I have not found time yet. I am hoping to see them this week.

• Richard Fortey talks about trilobites.
• A trilogy on Richard Feynman.

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