No big deal for some animals? Photo by Will Clayton.

• This week, at The Molecular Ecologist: An interview with Richard Lenski.
• And, at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Should peer review be more subjective?
• Everyone’s all, “why do we need to fund ant taxonomy?” until they’re covered in ants. What that story about “crazy ants” tells us about U.S. science funding.
• Drat. Bone marrow transplants have failed to clear two patients’ HIV infections.
• Also on searches for “is my husband gay”? A new estimate for the size of the U.S. gay population is based on Google searches for porn.
• Deal with it. You are, in fact, the sum of physical things happening inside your own skull.
• Really depends what you mean by “age.” Are there such things as living things that don’t age?
• Vaccinate, please. Measles cases in the U.S. tripled in 2013.
• Not sure I’d call it “scary” so much as “sobering.” The story of Easter Island may be both an ecological disaster and an exemplar of human resilience.
• Data for the masses, but what about interpretation? A geneticist on the case of the FDA versus 23andMe.
• Better than nothing? The FDA finally kinda, sorta moves to restrict agricultural antibiotic use.
• “… it was like an addiction.” How scientists make the transition from lab work to programming.

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