Monday Science Links

Mike the Mad Biologist suggested that non-science bloggers (such as me) post five science links a week (read him to see why). Sounds good to me, so here's installment one:

• Mixing Memory posts The Blues in Russian - on whether Russians (who have no single word for 'blue' but instead two words, one 'dark blue' and one 'light blue') can discriminate between the colors better than English speakers.


• Mark Liberman at Language Log posts on Hot Dryden-on-Jonson Action - the source of the ban on clause-final prepositions.


• Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy posts on New Horizons at Jupiter - what the New Horizons probe saw as it slingshotted around Jupiter on its way to Pluto


• Darren Naish at Tetrapod Zoology posts on the world of sheep - much more interesting than it might sound


• Martin Rundkvist at Aardvarchaeology posts on the Kaga Brooch, a bronze 6th century find from Östergötland, and quite lovely

So there you have it - five links to some good science. Surely you can find something there to interest you. Check back weekly.