http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/14/women-in-science-unexpected-aliens/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/14/women-in-science-unexpected-aliens/#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:00:41 +0000 Heather Whitney http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26369 For those of you who have watched James Cameron’s Avatar, if you cast your mind back you might remember that in this film a well-informed fantastical ecology was created, with many of its constituent animals and plants showing utterly alien traits, such as six-legged elephant-horses, and bizarre iridescent blue plants.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/14/women-in-science-unexpected-aliens/feed/ 4