I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (21 March 2015)

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“Three days before Britain declared war, on September 3, 1939, Janet Vaughan received a telegram from the Medical Research Council. It read, “Start bleeding.”” Rose George on a woman who changed our relationship with blood.

The great Hillary Rosner on the beetle that’s killing North America’s forests, and what their incursion says about our changing world.

I love this Alexis Madrigal piece on doing talks from memory; it’s such a rewarding thing to do, and something I adored of the TED experience

“The paper describes a way to read the book of history in human DNA to a

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