The second science-of-mysteries tryptich by Deborah Blum, Jennifer Ouellette, and Ann Finkbeiner

Top 10 reasons Erik Klemetti loves volcanoes, and you should too

Woman gets a jaw transplant. Her jaw was printed with a 3-D printer

A long feature from Atlantic Magazine about Toxoplasma gondii’s sway over us. I’m not entirely convinced by the personality changes stuff but this is a good read.

Two rival features on the same story – the Zanesville zoo break – in GQ and Esquire. Compare and contrast.

Carl Zimmer profiles the aptly named Joy Reidenberg, arch-dissector from Inside Nature’s Giants

Here’s a song that hasn’t been heard for 165 million years – the reconstructed call of a Jurassic cricket

Marvellous parody