Off Topic: Interesting end of year stories

I'll admit it up front - I load up my browser with lots of tabs during the normal work week with stories that I have the best of intentions to read and report (the best of) and thanks to my surfing over the holidays, I've got way too many to blog in my normal way about. SO, I'll post links below of a bunch of them that are interesting from a forensics point of view or simply just interesting on their own. I hope you enjoy them.

New Scientist Round-up of 2007 Biology and Medicine stories

Beautiful and average not the same

Seven medical myths

One person in 1,000 has synaesthesia

The influence of color on taste perception

Hacking your internal clock

The foreign patent money trap

What your iPhone knows about you

FBI unveils a $1B biometrics initiative

Angry populace burning British security cameras

How extra pounds boost your risk of cancer (sorry, but I couldn't find a free on-line version with graphics included, but if you have full access to the newsletter or the New England Journal of Medicine, they are stunningly impressive)

And to end on a brighter note:

2007 foot-in-mouth awards