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Nine things I wish people understood about anxiety. Highly recommended, by Kady Morrison.

TIME have gone and ruined a years-long run of mocking by choosing a really good Person(s) of the Year: the Ebola fighters.

“After hibernating for much of the past 7yrs, the New Horizons spacecraft awoke today on Pluto’s doorstep.” By Nadia Drake.

“A distinguishing feature of Ethiopia is that both religion and science are bred in its bone.” Great piece by Amy Maxmen

“No one, not even the dozen or so groups who intensively study [stem cell] reprogramming, knows how it happens.” Great state-of-the-union feature