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Is This Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Science or Spectacle? Very good Greg Miller piece on Miguel Nicolelis’ World Cup ambition. It doesn’t inspire confidence when a scientist refuses to talk to a journalist who included critical voices in previous coverage.

How the Syrian civil war is destroying the historic Aleppo pepper. Maryn McKenna on fine form at National Geographic’s new food blog, The Plate.

12,000 yrs ago, a teenage girl fell in a cave, broke her hip, and died. And now, we can sequence her DNA.

On the lives of sociable spiders, by Natalie Angier.

“Sugar is not only complex, it’s iniquitous.” Wonderful Ann