I've got your missing links right here (5th February 2011)

Top ten picks Undoubtedly the week’s must-read post: Greg Downey’s opus on the science of breath-holding. He really ought to be paid for this. A moving list of people who, while studying life, lost theirs, collected by Richard Conniff Kate Clancy continues her run of busting myths about female bodies. This time: anaemia isn’t something you get just for being a lady. A brilliant Jonah Lehrer piece about a man who cracked the scratch ticket lottery code. “I’d simply done the math and concluded that beating the game wasn’t worth my time.” “That experience—the one of initial discovery, of fulfilled curiosity, is what I aim to communicate through my writing.” Andrea Kuszewski on using science stories to rediscover wonderThe Atavist – a fascinating new way of publishing long-form journalism. Edited pieces are published through e-readers, in multiple versions at different costs, with proceeds going to editors and journalists. With a ...