I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (5 September 2015)

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By me in the Atlantic, this week: The $1 foldable, pocket microscope; the phantom road that shows how traffic noise affects birds, and the animal that’s a colony of living jet engines with a shared nervous system.

I visited Micropia, Amsterdam’s microbe museum, and wrote about it for the New Yorker

An incredible year-long investigation from Bryan Christy shows how ivory poaching funds terrorism.

Brooke Borel on the hidden challenge faced by marijuana growers: a regulatory tangle that deprives them of good pesticides

“The world’s longest yard sale runs for nearly 700 miles along a vertical line

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