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“In reality, a whale has orifices, and so the gas will likely escape through the path of least resistance” –Aatish Bhatia on the soon-to-explode blue whale. And Alexis Madrigal has a brief history of exploding whales.

Wonderful to see a long profile of the late Carl Woese, biology’s scarred revolutionary

“Here are the specifics: you were the donor in a faecal microbiota transplant. You gave your daughter your poo.” Bryn Nelson looks at the fascinating world of faecal transplants.

Gavin Schmidt talks about how climate models do their thing, and what that thing is

“Stay away from camel milk and Egyptian tomb