I've got your missing links right here (16 June 2012)

Top picksIf you get shot in the head, will you feel it? Vaughan Bell investigates Becca Rosen on Voyager I's prolonged exit from our solar system. Wonderful. We are viral, from the beginning. I tell you, no one sums up complex ideas into pithy pretty statements better than Carl Zimmer. Fascinating post on 10 taboo topics about iPS cells (the "stemmy" cells reprogrammed from adult ones), by Paul Knoepfler Terrifying sex organs of male turtles, by Darren Naish Microbe(s)-on-microbe action: blog post about a bacterium infected by another bacterium and a virus *at the same time* Great take about that study supposedly on exercise & depression, by SciCurious. "Hooligan cocks” - Graphic hundred-year-old penguin sex manuscript uncovered World's largest flower is a parasite that steals water, food and genes from its hosts, by Christie Wilcox 2nd guest-star on my BBC "Will we ever?" column is Phil Plait who asks if ...