now picnic

Here are some links for the week:

Can you identify the fish you just paid for? In Chicago:

The newspaper had DNA tests done on sushi described as red snapper or "Japanese red snapper" bought from 14 restaurants in the city and suburbs. Not a single one was really red snapper.

Bacteria hug you! (thanks to HH)

A list of eco-friendly hotels (via Mandeep)

Are physicists taking over astronomy?

"A significant number of astronomers were being browbeaten," White told Nature in an interview. "I wanted to say, 'Hey, there are different ways of thinking about the physical world that are just as interesting as figuring out how particles and forces interact with each other'."

Really? The article contains the first time I've seen particle physicists described as "a glamorous and well financed bunch."