“Continual risk of death, even more than the ability to cause it, is what shapes the social behavior of [the lion]”. This is David Quammen at his absolute best.

A moving, compassionate and masterfully written piece from Robin Henig on end-of-life care

“Call me when you’re at Uranus and I’ll meet you at Saturn.” Lee Billings drives through a scale model of the Solar System. Glorious.

The two cultures aren’t science + humanities, but academic + everything else. Lovely essay by Anne Buchanan.

“There is bad neuroscience, because there is bad science, period” – SciCurious calls for some neuronuance between the neuromania and neurobacklash.

After 69 years, scientists have finally witnessed a drop dropping from the pitch-drop experiment.

The media