Monday Science Links

This week's science links:

• Mark Liberman at Language Log on NYT article about the "happiness gap" and why the actual study doesn't say what the reporter says it did


• Grrlscientist at Living the Scientific Life on how birds help show us 'why grandmothers?' and how cooperative breeding works.


• Bee at Back Reaction on communication, and research, and how it's changing, and being changed by, Web 2.0.


• Brian at Laelaps on the chimpanzees of Mt Assirik and how they live.


• Edmund Blair Bolles at Babel's Dawn on the FoxP2 gene - the 'language gene' - in bats, who are, as he say, "great vocalizers and, like humans, must attend to very brief differences in sounds if they are to understand the meaning of what they hear."

Enjoy!