This, my friends, is how it’s done. Carl Zimmer on “The Human Lake“. If you read one post this month…

Inspired. Craig McClain draws parallels between a 1st century Germanic chieftain and a baby coral

I loved the Bronx Zoo Cobra story. It was a wonderful break from a month of depressing news. I loved this line: “The case of the missing [cobra] has yielded much interest… What It has not yielded is the snake.” I loved the @Bronxzooscobra Twitter feed, and the @Bronxcobrawife one too. I loved the exclusive interview in the NYT.

An amazing story that starts with an egg sandwich, continues with a weird bag of blue powder, and ends with mass