I’m doing a Reddit AMA with my fellow Phenomena bloggers, Ginny, Carl and Brian, on Thu 14 March, 2pm ET. Join us!

“We have a very serious problem, and we need to sound an alarm,” says the CDC on a new antibiotic-resistant superbug. Reporting by Maryn McKenna. Carl Zimmer has an explainer.

Vaughan Bell on the rhetorical use of neuroscience as spray-on authority

Stop blaming every stupid career choice on “addiction“. Maia Szalavitz on Diederik Stapel and frauds

In time for International Women’s Day, Nature has an entire special out on women in science. And related to that: Finkbeiner’s rule for doing a profile on a female scientist.

The New York Review of Books demolishes Ray Kurzweil’s claims