I’ve got your missing links right here (13 April 2013)

Wonderful explanation from Neuroskeptic about how minds arise from brains

“I had no power to say that’s not okay.” Harrowing, important, shocking post from Kate Clancy about a study looking at assault, harrassment and rape in field anthropology.

How monarch butterflies migrate over 4,000 kilometres without a map. My piece for Nature News.

An amazing mishmash of a hominid: Brian Switek on new studies of Australopithecus sediba

Is the BRAIN initiative BAM or BUST? Great run-through by SciCurious. Also, three great pieces on the initiative by Erin McKiernan and an interesting defence of BRAIN’s goals. And try guess which project—Human Genome Project or Brain Initiative—scientists are complaining about from these quotes

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