I've got your missing links right here (06 August 2011)

Top picks Watch the entertaining sexual displays that cause flamboyant male Houbara bustards to age faster. I especially liked Wired’s coverageInside Nature's Giants dissects a sperm whale. This is the best nature programme on modern TV bar none. John Rennie has a great post about 3D Printing and the era of Downloadable Objects. Too detailed to be true? Serious concerns have been raised about the accuracy of the New Yorker's piece on the bin Laden raid. Where was their fabled fact-checking? WOW! Neuroscience of a ragtime pianist who can follow 4 symphonies simultaneouslyWhat Home Looked Like For Seven Million Years – Carl Zimmer on where humans evolved What happens when journo students have to make a newspaper with no computers? Brilliance ensues. Don't miss the rest of the experiment as students struggle to type 2011 on a typewriter From Catch-22 to Wikipedia. A cool list of 10 great moments in ...