I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (20 February 2016)

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Superb piece about the “nature-faked” relationship between Hadza hunter-gatherers & the honeyguide bird. By Cara Giaimo

100,000 years of everyone ****ing everyone. An explainer about prehistoric interbreeding by Ewen Callaway.

A superb, insightful, compassionate piece on the vaccination debate, by Maggie Koerth-Baker

“When I go out in nature, I don’t even see terrain anymore. All I see are mathematical functions and graphs.” Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself

Absurd Creature of the Week: The Huge, Bee-Decapitating Hornet That Can’t Survive Group Hugs

Flowers in SPAAAAAACE

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