Undoubtedly the week’s must-read post: Greg Downey’s opus on the science of breath-holding. He really ought to be paid for this.

Kate Clancy continues her run of busting myths about female bodies. This time: anaemia isn’t something you get just for being a lady.

A brilliant Jonah Lehrer piece about a man who cracked the scratch ticket lottery code. “I’d simply done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn’t worth my time.”

“That experience—the one of initial discovery, of fulfilled curiosity, is what I aim to communicate through my writing.” Andrea Kuszewski on using science stories to rediscover wonder

The incidence of botulism in Alaska is 836 times greater than in rest of US – a clash