I’ve got your missing links right here (2 March 2013)

Joe Canseco makes some silly comments about dinosaurs and “ancient gravity”. Everyone mocks him in the usual smug and snarky way. Brian Switek and Matthew Francis actually bother to explain something, and make a fan out of Canseco. DO YOU THINK THERE MIGHT BE A LESSON HERE?

Beautiful Ross Andersen essay on extinctions and the end of humans, suffused with gorgeous poetry.

Eliza Strickland gets her full genome sequenced and asks: It’s getting cheap; will it be useful?

A virus with an immune system! Amazing. By Carl Zimmer.

There is nothing to chill the blood quite like an executive screaming “IT IS MONEY… IT IS MONEY!” while people die. Maryn Mckenna on an indictment over

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