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This is a truly wonderful post on the 5 best puncutation marks in literature, from a colon in A Christmas Carol to a pair of parentheses in Lolita. Kathryn Schulz always delights.

Becky Cliffe takes a look at that sloth/moth paper that I covered, and finds it wanting

Drug tweaks the way DNA is packaged to erase fear memories in mice. Virginia Hughes on some very cool research.

Carl Zimmer gives you a *gorgeous* tour of the cutting edge of neuroscience, and new technologies for mapping, visualising & connecting with the brain

Everything you ever wanted to know about faeces, via Wikipedia

Athene Donald