I've got your missing links right here (10 September 2011)

Top picksPatrick Keeling teaches his students to make their own DIY microscopes. Anne Casselman describes it *beautifully* It's worth reading this piece on John Hunstman by Tom Chivers just for the brilliant football/evolution analogyJawless fish, an epic primer on the birth of vertebrates. When Doctors Become Patients: moving story of a doctor who gets throat cancer Razor-sharp: why worrying whether people like science or not is probably the wrong concern. By Alice Bell. "It’s hard to overstate the influence of the marshmallow task." 40+ years on and still important, says Jonah Lehrer. I spend all my time blogging about papers. But here's a paper about my blog! How the war over dolphin rights sundered the friendship between two scientists. Great story by Erik Vance. Aceinetobacter baumanni, a totally hardcore bacterium that's stopped by blue light. A bit like Green Lantern. Great tag-team posts by James Byrne and Lab Rat. Natural ...