from Syaffolee: Tangled Bank #24

Welcome to the twenty-fourth edition of Tangled Bank and boy, do we have a live one! There's everything from visual perception to DNA repair and evolution to salamanders. The sheer variety of science articles and links surely live up to this weblog carnival's title.

As I was contemplating on how to order the submitted entries, it struck me how boundary-less science really is. Aristotle, the 'father of biology,' may have been fond of categorizing everything, but disciplines don't exist separately in a vacuum. Things meld and mix to become something that is both like the previous things as well as something completely new. I suppose one could put things up in neat little rows like an unimaginative librarian, but subjects are more like moldable forms than cubbyholes.(more)