Octopuses have amazing mimicking abilities. The video is short enough to watch whatever you are doing right now - don't skip it!

It kind of makes me wish I had become a malacologist.

The human perception lab of St Andrews made the news.

Their results make a good story: your skin colour affects your attractiveness. Not the colour based on race, but the colour based on slight variations caused by diet and exercise.

No evidence was presented for diet or exercise making you more red or yellow. Instead, the BBC chose to show the reporter eating a cake - audiences are not trusted to pay attention to 1.5 min video otherwise.

I still wonder how much of the preference they found is innate and how much of it is learned. What about other countries, or other races within a country? I thought paleness was valued highly in China, for example.

Baba Brinkman packs in a whole evolutionary biology course in a music album. The lyrics have been checked by one scientist, making it the first peer reviewed music album!

Naturally, the album was reviewed in the academic literature.

You can download the album for free here.

(search for 'the rap guide to evolution' on the page).

The rap guide to human nature is a newer album by Baba Brinkman. I like the way it is being sold, you pay whatever you think is fare.