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Moral of story: if your roommate is a sociopathic parasitologist, don’t evict him. By Rebecca Kreston. Also from her wonderful blog: In the early days of penicillin, we recycled the drug from the urine of treated patients!

What would happen if the Earth stopped in its orbit? Aatish Bhatia considers in his own inimitable style.

The events of 2014, as told through seven addresses. A lovely, creative approach to a year-end list, by Amy Davidson.

“Guess I’ll go eat worms.” I missed Robin Henig’s beautiful essay on loneliness last year; you shouldn’t.

To end 2014, the NYT published