Strategy games tend to be of the ‘take over the world’ variety, whether by force, diplomacy, economics—or a combination of the three. The classic ‘world on a board’ game is Risk, favoured of long, rainy Sunday afternoons and engendering countless and never-ending family feuds. Hah! South America is mine! you exult, before you realize that…

I’m still giving away copies of My Life in Science by Sydney Brenner. The latest ruse is an online raffle. All you have to do to enter is follow @F1000 on Twitter (so that I can DM you if you win!), and retweet the line: Virtual raffle: chance to win a copy of “My Life…

Scientists get lonely too, you know. And with all those late nights in the coldroom, time-points at oh dark hundred, and skipped lunches and dinners because you have to get this PCR on before the seminar starts, it’s difficult to meet that special him or her. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of…

Tom Solomon, a Faculty Member in Neurological Disorders, ran the London Marathon last month and

Culture doesn’t happen in a vacuum. When we go to art galleries or see plays or listen to music, we invariably do it in the company of other people. We will often have dinner or a drink before, after, or even during the performance (whether in the interval or not).

We all love prizes. As promised, I’m giving away an awesomely awesome Naturally Selected sweatshirt, modelled here by Eva, for the best comment this month (in my opinion). And the winner is

I still have a box of Sydney Brenner’s My Life in Science to give away. So, in an effort to reduce the pile, can you tell me what this is?

As oil and sludge continue to surge onto the Gulf Coast from BP’s blown out Deepwater Horizon well, more and more animals are suffering. But one company sees a way to profit from the calamity. And if you’re the betting type, you could pad your pockets along with it.

All that’s new and approved from the Faculty of 1000 this week. Sex and the single cell A question that had never really occurred to me was answered in PLoS Biology the other day: what sex are cells? Now, it’s true that every somatic cell of mine has both X and Y chromosomes, I never…

What do you get when you cross Charles Darwin with John Rambo? Well, it’s certainly not Dar-lose. Watch and see! Dana Carvey is “DARWIN” – watch more funny videos I don’t know about you, but I’d pay double the ticket price to see this movie. – Bob Grant, Associate Editor, The Scientist