I’ve got your missing links right here (12 February 2011)

An amazing post by Greg Downey on “uncontacted tribes” and the perils of using technical terms that sound like everyday ones.

Does grief proceed through five stages? Is it better to let it all out? Here’s a stonking debunking of myths about grief, including the surprising origins of the “stages of grief” model, by Ruth Davis Konigsberg

An autistic man who communicates using the visual language of photos, by Steve Silberman.

Carl Zimmer explains the amazing feats of fleas’ ‘feet, plus another good take from NPR. This story is brilliant for the video and St Tiggywinkles Hospital.

Behold Bora Zivkovic’s incredible opus on clock genes

The average human eats 100 trillion genes a day, by Emily Anthes

“He recently

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