Stuff online, grass of the field edition

My latest in the LA Review of Books: How living things are evolving (or not) in response to human activity.
From the front lines of the outbreak: The cultural links between ebola and zombies; how useful airport screening will probably be; the basic science that could have prevented this.
Break’em down for parts. The best mutualists are the ones you can recycle when you’re done with them.
Looks effective, in a small trial. We now know we can transplant gut microbes using the less awkward end of the alimentary canal.
Fun! What it’s like to have right-wingers attack your NSF grant.
Wake me when he’s governor. An Idaho state legislator who doesn’t hate Federal conservation agencies.
The NRA is killing America. A university is unable to do anything about death threats against a guest speaker because of concealed carry laws.
Set irony to maximum. Turns out we did find some WMDs in Iraq — they were from the U.S., and dangerously old, and the Pentagon covered it all up.
Mortality sucks. We live among the dead.
He’s seriously the best thing on this show. How Andre Braugher makes Brooklyn Nine-Nine the best.
From slates to whiteboards. A brief history of the blackboard.
Requiescat. The ScienceOnline organization.

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