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From me at the Atlantic:

This piece on dead, dying, and resurrecting trees is quintessential  Helen Macdonald: nature writing suffused with poetry; the world around us, and the emotions it provokes within us.

Love this piece. Ostensibly about whether an ancient plague was Ebola, but actually about how we’d even tell. By Simon Davis

Really good piece on a continuing study on the evolution of lung cancer, by Henry Scowcroft

Remember that paper on the Holocaust, epigenetics, and how stress cascades across the generations? It’s rubbish. Read this excellent piece by Ewan Birney on what it means and doesn’t mean.

Ann