Yes, here’s another selection of items you may have missed. There are quite a few science-y things in this edition, although they should all be fairly “accessible”.
Biologist Rob Dunn writes an open letter to high school students about being a scientist. I wish someone had told it to me like this when I was 16 or 17!
Here’s another on what doing synthetic organic chemistry is like. If you aren’t a chemist you can skip the techie bits but do follow the metaphor in paragraphs four and five. This is why I never was a synthetic chemist.
This will totally change your relationship with mozzies! What really does happen when the mosquito bites.
Another from Rob Dunn … So how do you try to work out the number of ants living in New York City? And what might the number be? Fuck, that’s big!
Tardigrades (right) are tiny, even compared with ants. But they are the hardiest critters on the planet — awesomely so!
At last medics are beginning to wake up to the fact that they are over-testing and over-treating us.
Surprise! Shaming people doesn’t work, it just makes them worse. At least for the obese.
Be afraid! Be very afraid! Porn panic is driving us to the state where the only thing left to masturbate to will be the Daily Mail. Eeekkkkk!!
Girls: Got a retracted nipple? Then get the lads on the job! Boys: Might be your lucky day!
On the other hand not all buttons actually do something: the world of placebo buttons.
And on placebos, Nicholas Humphrey has a theory that society at large is built from a myriad of placebos. Yep, it is indeed all bollox. [This may be behind a paywall.]
Crossrail are still digging holes in London and finding all manner of archaeology. The latest is the site of the Bedlam Hospital near Liverpool Street.
And while on the ancient, here are twelve words which have survived only by getting themselves fossilised in idioms never to be seen alone in the wild.

And finally, this week’s most amazing time-waster. Randall Munroe, creator of science and logic comic XKCD has created an animated film entitled “Time” (above). There are several pieces of backstory around this, including one by science blogger Phil Plait on Slate, another on Wired, and one on Randall’s XKCD blog.
Enjoy!