“No, I don’t want a breath mint.” Photo by TexasEagle.

• This week, at The Molecular Ecologist: I discuss why different genetic tests might give different disease risk estimates.
• Congrats! To the authors of articles selected for Open Lab 2013.
• Dolphin, not shark. How to tell the difference between “gray things with dorsal fins in the ocean.”
• “Defensive halitosis.” Tobacco-eating caterpillars exude a toxic fog of nicotine to ward off predators.
• “A recipe for civilizational disaster.” The trouble with TED.
• About 7% funded, with the median P.I. about 10 years post-Ph.D. The depressing, depressing summary statistics from NSF grant funding in 2013.
• Surprise! National stereotypes don’t pan out in formal personality testing.

◼