I’ve started a new Tumblr blog called Nature Wants to Eat You: a celebration of the animal kingdom’s terrifying mouths, jaws, teeth and tongues.

A truly superb comic on depression

A masterful summary of Ben Goldacre’s eight years of writing Bad Science. Much to like, but particularly: “People who don’t understand science can only critique in terms of motive. Let them have that; we’ll do the details.” Also good to know that Goldacre is writing a book on evidence misuse by pharma.

Two women in a canoe happen upon a flock of starlings. Incredible video ensues.

Unfeasibly, the Toxoplasma story gets more mental with every new paper. And Carl Zimmer is there to chronicle it all.

Research into a