I've got your missing links right here (1 December 2012)

Top picks This slow-motion video of a cheetah running is the most incredible thing I’ve seen all…. Well, it’s incredible. Note how freakishly steady the head is! And focus on one foot – watch how much distance the animal covers between the foot lifting off and coming down again! And do NOT miss the end, where you see how it looks in real-time. The closest planet to the sun has loads of ice! Amazing news about Mercury! Human Evolution [Is Going Through] an Exciting New Phase – excellent piece by Brandon Keim Stunningly good read about a man’s journey from earache to brain tumour to coma, and the ensuing end-of-life court battle. The Lying Disease: Why do some people fake cancer online? An incredible piece on “Munchausen’s by Internet”. Every single sentence in Time's description of the Higgs boson is wrong. The man whose brain ignores one half of his ...