“He was a hunter-gatherer from remote Papua New Guinea. And now he was in my [Facebook] feed. How did this happen?”

Katie Drummond on the next Agent Orange

“After 13,000 years, the avocado is clueless that the great mammals are gone.” Why the avocado should have gone extinct but didn’t.

The Secret Life of Everything: One Journalist Tries to Learn Where Stuff Comes From

“Procrastination awareness week will happen next week—or the week after that” – wonderful piece on medicalising normality.

Fish scientists are happy about the spate of oarfish finds and are divvying up the bits for study. Lovely story by Daniel Cressey.

What’s it like to go through a clinical trial for a new cancer drug? Lisa