OK, it’s Sunday and tomorrow is Columbus Day, but my vacation is essentially over. Despite vacationing, I popped in for a minute to post the Image of the Week and Video of the Week for your fun and enjoyment. And look at the awesome posts that bloggers published over the week:

- Michele Banks – A Novel with Science at its Heart

- Rebecca Wragg Sykes – Time Is Not Made To Flow In Vain: Eternity and Apocalypse in Assynt and Mars

- Zaria Gorvett – Warning: genetically modified humans

- Simon J Makin – The story of a lonely brain

- Kyle Hill – Of the Creation Persuasion

- Becky Crew – How to improve snail memories with chocolate and New species of night monkey, porcupine and shrew opossum found in Peru and Rare rusty-spotted cat kittens born in Berlin

- Judy Stone – Drugs in Search of a Disease—Pharma Targets Women

- Kate Clancy – Under the Influence: Naomi Wolf, Biology, and Why We Are More Than Our Vaginas

- Eric Michael Johnson – Ayn Rand on Human Nature

- David Bressan – De Loys’ Ape

- Maureen McCarthy – Chimps in Uganda: Home Sweet Home

- Ashutosh Jogalekar – Misconduct, not error, is the source of most retracted papers and Let’s all find out how meth works: Crowdfunding a novel scientific paradigm

- Ferris Jabr – To Combat Alzheimer’s, Scientists Genetically Reprogram One Kind of Brain Cell Into Another and African Spiny Mice Regenerate Missing Body Parts à la Salamanders

- Maria Konnikova – Is Huckleberry Finn’s ending really lacking? Not if you’re talking psychology.

- Jason G. Goldman – Cricket Fight Club: How is a Cricket Like a Rat? and ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections: Kid Scientists, Social Psychology, M&Ms for Rats

- Christie Wilcox – Do male limpets have cooties?

- Darren Naish – In pursuit of Early Cretaceous crocodyliforms in southern England (part II): of Vectisuchus and Leiokarinosuchus, Bernissartia and the hylaeochampsids and The Haematothermia hypothesis and Giant petrels, snow petrels, fulmars and kin (petrels part VI)

- Glendon Mellow – SciArt of the Day: Hyperdimensional Suffering

- Kalliopi Monoyios – Shoot To Kill or Aim To Embarrass? and SciArt of the Day: Fermented Teeth? and What Did You Miss?

- Carin Bondar – Perlstein’s Princeton Perspective: A Completely Unique Approach to Academia

- Princess Ojiaku – Moving into the Wisconsin Idea

- S.E. Gould – Cystitis: How bacteria get into your bladder

- Jennifer Frazer – Extinction by Design: Guinea Worm

- Janet D. Stemwedel – Community responsibility for a safety culture in academic chemistry.

- Dana Hunter – Dave Crockett’s Narrow Escape and Prelude to a Catastrophe: The Complete Lexicon

- Scicurious – Ignobel prize winner in Physics: The amazing ponytail and Ignobel prize in Medicine: beware the exploding colon and ADHD and circadian rhythm and Friday Weird Science: how much wood could a woodchuck chuck?

- Ilana Yurkiewicz – Convergence (reflections on second year)

- Alex Wild – On Assignment: Bees in the Wall and Why the iPhone’s purple haze is more problematic than Apple thinks

- John R. Platt – Dung from Critically Endangered Kakapo Parrots Could Save Endangered Plant and Italy Faces Invasion of American Killer Squirrels

- Caleb A. Scharf – We All Carry Stardust Memories

- DNLee – #DispatchesDNLee: I’m back in the States and Checking in with you all

- Kevin Zelnio – A Post-PBS Educational Television Landscape

- Melissa C. Lott – Energy – “We’re Gonna Be Stretchin’ You Out” and DC-Area Scouts Learn About Energy

- David Wogan – UT Austin: Over 12 percent of all U.S. energy consumption is directly related to water and Should climate change have been on the agenda at last night’s debate?

- Charles Q. Choi – From The Writer’s Desk: Untold Stories in Science Writing and A Modest Proposal: 3-D Printing of Fossils Still Trapped in Matrix and Visions: Only If They Catch You and “Worth Pitching?”: Mysteries of Rain and Ice

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Twitter For Science Writers and University of Michigan’s Mind The Science Gap Relaunches

- Bora Zivkovic – Bora’s Picks (October 5th, 2012)

- Bora Zivkovic – Stumped by bed nets, mosquitoes turn midnight snack into breakfast and Upcoming events and Best of September at A Blog Around The Clock

- Bora Zivkovic – Open Laboratory 2013 – the complete list of entries! and Open Laboratory 2013 – deadline for submissions is tonight!

- Anna Kuchment – Romney and Obama: The Federal Government Can Play a ‘Very Important’ Role in Education

- Katherine Harmon – Super-Toxic Snake Venom Could Yield New Painkillers and Baby Mice Born from Eggs Made from Stem Cells and Free Birth Control Access Can Reduce Abortion Rate By More than Half

- Larry Greenemeier – Web Site Tracks Mosquito-Borne Diseases Spread Globally by Air Travel and Microsoft Polls Xbox Gamers About First Debate: Romney Wins [Video]

- Philip Yam – The Forgotten JFK Proposal: A Joint U.S.-Soviet Moon Landing [Video]

- John Matson – Internet Billionaire Ponies Up More Cash for Physics Prizes

- Christine Gorman – Obama and Romney Should Talk about Climate Change at Next Debate and House Science Member Says Earth is 9,000 years old

- Mark Fischetti – Climate Change Could Delay Fall Foliage Colors [Video]

- Michael Moyer – “Once in a Civilization” Comet to Zip past Earth Next Year

- Daisy Yuhas – Diminutive Dinosaur Bore Beak, Bristles and Fangs [Video]

- Jen Christiansen – A Defense of Artistic License in Illustrations of Scientific Concepts

- The Editors – Scientific American’s Growing Catalogue of E-Book Titles Includes HIV and AIDS, Exploring Mars, The Higgs Boson and More

- Eric R. Olson – The Countdown, Episode 6 – Black Hole Neighbors, Asteroid Cooling, SpaceX Launch, Nazi Iron Man from Space, Water on Mars

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