Bit late this week because of ScienceOnline. Just pretend it’s Saturday! Normal blogging service will resume tomorrow when I recover from jetlag.

I’ve been in North Carolina for ScienceOnline over the last week. Here’s a smattering of roundups from the event.

Head movements taint the results of brain imaging studies, especially in people with autism. Important story by Virginia Hughes

Carl Zimmer on his favourite beautiful explanation in science, which is “stunningly wrong.”

Adam Rutherford meets Freckles the spider-goat, and investigates the world of synthetic biology.

A whole Guardian special on memory.

Carl Zimmer starts an excellent discussion of the multicellular yeast paper at his blog, and the first author addresses his critics.

“You are bitching about the wrong things when you read