Monday's Science Links

This week's sciency goodness:

• GrrlScientist at Living the Scientific Life blogs on the psychology behind wrapping paper: But what does gift-wrapping do for the recipient? Is all this effort worth it for the recipient? For example, do recipients actually like gift-wrapped presents more than unwrapped gifts?


• Arnold Zwicky at Language Log blogs on why language innovations are resisted by style guides, peeveologists, and mavens, and why they shouldn't be.


• Jon Voisey, the Angry Astronomer, blogs on galactic evolution and the dynamic universe we live in.


• Brian Switek at Laelaps blogs on evolution's arrow - the question of whether evolution is directed.


• And finally over at Three-Toed Sloth is a post about Claude Bernard, "one of the great scientists of the 19th century, and arguably of all time." (It has a cute science story about cats.)

Enjoy, and see you next year!