I've got your missing links right here (1 October 2011)

Top picks The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice: "A website dedicated to the horrors of pre-anesthetic surgery." And a wonderful one at that. Happy anniversary to Jennifer Ouellette and Sean Carroll: read her lovely tribute to falling in love with a physicist. Emma Marris on cloning extinct animals. I for one would love to see a sabre-tooth cat devour a ground sloth. David Robson chronicles a brief history of the brain from the first neurons to humans. NobelPrizeWatch - a new blog by Simon Frantz about the prizes and coverage of the prizes. This should be good, especially since Simon used to work for the Nobel Foundation. What? Huh? Wait.. how did.. UH? What happens when a slinky falls? This apparently. "What good’s a toolkit if you don’t use it to build something?" Jack Horner's quest to reverse-engineer a dinosaurPaper-based diagnostic tests that are as small as a stamp and weigh less than ...