Science online, safety not defined edition

Tomatoes Are better mass-market tomatoes on the horizon? Photo by rachelandrew.
  • This week at the Molecular Ecologist: Introducing a new repository for useful snippets of code.
  • Yum. Modern genetic methods and old fashioned cross-breeding may yet make supermarket tomatoes tasty.
  • Selection is selection. An evaluation of genetically modified organisms, from an evolutionary biology perspective.
  • God only knows what’ll happen to NSF. The “sequestration” budget cuts are wreaking havoc at NIH.
  • Viral silliness. In which a marine biologist extensively objects to Buzzfeed.
  • With video! NASA’s plan to capture and sample an asteroid.