links for 2011-01-11

"Fear the Asian carp. The fish jump several feet into the air. And they are big–up to 80 pounds. They'll slap a fisherman in the face with their tails, and leave him with a black eye…if he's lucky. They've been known to break jaws."

I trust in humanity's ability to strip a resource – we need to make these fish palatable, then overfishing will take care of the rest. [Disclaimer: I like carp!]

"His real dream came true, he said, when he began selling his fresh mushrooms at a few farmers markets, including the Saturday market in Chico. "It kind of makes me feel complete," he said. "Otherwise, I'd feel like the preacher that preaches but never goes to church."

"The human body teems with microbes. In this, the first of two features, Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'. In the second, Apoorva Mandavilli meets the surgeons who have a rare opportunity to watch an ecosystem being established as they transplant guts from one person to another."

"What can microbiologists who study human bowels learn from those who study the bowels of Earth?"

I really like the "fitness landscapes" in this review.

"Scientists are struggling to make sense of the expanding scientific literature. Corie Lok asks whether computational tools can do the hard work for them."

Yeah. Info-swim.

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