As always, plenty of interesting stuff.\u00a0 What struck my interest in this week’s Science Magazine:<\/p>\n
Mars stuff!! Nasa Curiosity rover hits organic pay dirt on Mars<\/a> (News\/summary section), Organic molecules on Mars<\/a> (insights), Background levels of methane in Mars’ atmosphere show strong seasonal variations<\/a> (neat, and so tantalizing!), Organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater, Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bees understand zero!?!? WOW!\u00a0 What a cool experimental design and interesting result!\u00a0 Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees<\/a>.\u00a0 (“Bees demonstrated an understanding that parallels animals such as the African grey parrot, nonhuman primates, and even preschool children”)<\/p>\n Bonus: I have tracked male\/female ratios in obituaries – something I take note of when I’m looking through.\u00a0 I’ve started to write down and share.\u00a0 This weeks obits in Science: 1 male, 0 female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As always, plenty of interesting stuff.\u00a0 What struck my interest in this week’s Science Magazine: Mars stuff!! Nasa Curiosity rover hits organic pay dirt on Mars (News\/summary section), Organic molecules on Mars (insights), Background levels of methane in Mars’ atmosphere show strong seasonal variations (neat, and so tantalizing!), Organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at … Continue reading @sciencemag 02018\/06\/08 highlights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}