Monday's Science Links

Today's five chunks of science - read 'em all at once, or one-a-day!

• Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy (and his commenters) discuss the very existence of black holes.


• Darren Naish at Tetrapod Zoology demonstrates why sea lions really are quite impressive.


• Melinda Wenner at She Blinded Me With Science tells us that plants can apparently recognize their kin. Wow.


• John Pierrot at Thoughts in a Haystack discusses whether saying that something has been scientifically disproved means that that something is "science".


• Chris Rowan at Highly Allochthonous goes to Nambia for pre-Cambrian fossils (one subject, two posts, cool pics - a bonus for Solstice!

Enjoy!