Top ten picks
Ferris Jabr takes sign language at the AAAS conference and makes this wonderful piece out of it. Superb.
The story of Joshua Foer, a journalist who trained himself for the US Memory Championship & achieved record-breaking success
Sir John Beddington, the UK’s Chief Scientific Advisor, made widely quoted comments about “intolerance” towards pseudoscience. Frank Swain and Alice Bell ask if he’s right.
This is wonderful and, I predict, will be increasingly common as interdisciplinary science becomes the norm. Kate Clancy and SciCurious tag-team a study on that time of the month, each covering their own speciality
The Templeton Foundation – friend of science, or “sneakier than the creationists”? Great feature by Mitch Waldrop. And another one by Shanta Barley, looking inside the mind of a man who was scientist by day and animal "activist" by night
If it wasn't bad enough that few new antibiotics are in ...
