The last time we redefined what it means to be human: Annaleen Newitz on the hominin vs. hominid debate

How a synchotron works, explained with donuts. Great video by Alice Lighton and Harriet Bailey

Bloody hell, Ilanay Yurkiewicz is such a good medical writer. Here, she discusses talking to patients about death, when the doctor isn’t ready.

Suggested tools for your home mammoth excavation: embroidery hoop, cheese cloth, toothbrush – an awesome SciFund project

“When you get your brain split, it doesn’t grow back together.” A wonderful Nature feature by David Wolman on the last of the split brain patients

In which Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote a letter to NASA offering them Beaker’s services

Extraordinary! A phantom phantom finger!