This is bloody excellent. There was a big story about a massive Greenland ice melt, and Mark Brandon (and a supporting cast of climate researchers) explains the caveats in an epic Storify

Some baby gorillas managed to dismantle a poacher’s snare. Kimberly Gerson did a SUPERB analysis of the brainpower that such an act would entail. Read it to understand how animal behaviour researchers think, and how hard it is to avoid reading too much into behaviour.

Wonderful David Dobbs post on how culture shapes the course of mental illness.

What would it take to really build a jellyfish? Ferris Jabr with a great take on last week’s jellyfish/rat/heart paper. A good antidote for the folks who thought