Category: Daily Links

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A new fossil whale sheds light on their evolutionary tree

Amusing anecdotage

Hilton has been quick to point out that singing is a vocation for which she is eminently skilled. “I know music,” she reassured the Sunday Times children’s section. “I hear it every single day.”

‘All Creatures Great and Small’ was never like this.

Ben Goldacre offers some thoughts about the failings of medical research.

The Japanese introduce some procedural rigour to movie-marketing.

An example of the nitty-gritty of taxonomy in practice.

Particularly interesting are the cover scans. Via Howard in the comments.

An online music store selling Zimbabwean music

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% believing in evolution in different European countries + USA and Japan