Yesterday was Brian Cowen's first day as Taoiseach here in Ireland. While nearly everyone I talked to had a good opinion of Bertie Ahern, pretty much no one has anything to say about Brian Cowen except how boring he is and how much less personable than Bertie Ahern. A grand start I'd say! Everyone was hoping Mary Harney, the minister for health and children (and described as "a joke"), would be replaced, but she was one of the ministers that wasn't.
In other news, the Journal of Evolutionary Biology just published an interesting article on flowers and their tendencies to "wave" in the wind and how it relates to pollination (to read the BBC article click here). And! Nature just published an article on the genome of the platypus.
