I've got our missing links right here (18 August 2012)

Top picks Post of the month! Summer Ash blogs her heart surgery, with pics of her own heart on the operating table Yes our ancestors did have sex with Neanderthals, and no, that new paper doesn’t prove otherwise. John Hawks has the best account of the story. Ewen Callaway NASA just patched a piece of software on another planet. Dolphins adopt a torpedo. Beautiful. Have there been modern-day virgin births? A great historical tale, from the pre-genomic era. Wait, whale sharks can ungrow?! Awesome. And I learned that even before the bit about lasers World's oceans score 60 out of 100 on new health index. Not terrible; could do much better, by Virginia Gewin. The Maya didn't believe the world would end in 2012. That's those other folks. "Our Rover is safe" - a video about Curiosity's landing by the people who built it Maggie Koerth-Baker is a new columnist ...