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.

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