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Best of May at A Blog Around The Clock

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I posted 22 times in May. That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest Blog and Expeditions).

Brand new posts:

Clocks, metabolism, evolution – toward an integrative chronobiology


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The SA Incubator, or, why promote young science writers?

When Should Schools Start in the morning?

3 Science Questions to Ask U.S. Presidential Candidates

How barley domesticated its clock

Under construction – ITER in LEGO

Shaq and the Mini-Shaq, the extreme primates.

Best-of-the-Web linkfests:

The Scienceblogging Weekly (May 11, 2012)

The Scienceblogging Weekly (May 18, 2012)

The Scienceblogging Weekly (May 25th, 2012)

Today at The Browser

Updates, News and Announcements:

Open Laboratory…getting closer!

Upcoming science/sci-comm events

Several new ScienceOnline interviews:

ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Lali Derosier

ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Joe Kraus

ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Sarah Chow

ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Mark Henderson

ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Adam Regelmann

Some posts republished from the old archives:

Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work?

Domestication – it’s a matter of time (always is for me, that’s my ‘hammer’ for all nails)

(Non) Adaptive Function of Sleep

Chossat’s Effect in humans and other animals

Previously in the "Best of..." series:

2012

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