Top thirteen picks

This Pulitzer-winning series on a desperate bid to identify and treat a rare genetic disorder is incredible science writing. Truly incredible. You have to read it (and the story behind the story).

BLOODY HELL!! Those are whale sharks! 420 of them! Read Al Dove’s take on his own paper for a textbook example of a scientist blogging their own work.

“Charles Darwin was the original crowd-sourced scientist.” Carl Zimmer on the wonderfully named “Evolution Megalab”

Forget arseniclife. Here’s Deborah Blum with a moving tale of arsenic death

If you read one thing this month on the challenges of live, real-time, breaking news, read this by Emily Bell.

I loved this New Yorker profile on David Eagleman and his research on how the brain deals with time

This is why it’s important for journalists to get it right first time round: Vaughan Bell on why retractions fall on deaf ears.

“Are there circumstances in which feeding kittens to boa constrictors might be morally acceptable?” by Emily Anthes

Do we reason to find truth or simply to create more persuasive arguments? Jonah Lehrer on a compelling new hypothesis

Don’t read this in company. You will cry. “Here it ...