Another round-up of links to articles you may have missed.
First let us return again to the perennial question of Fukushima and the effects of the radiation. Screening of children in Fukushima has found a higher than expected incidence of thyroid problems, but the thinking is that this isn’t linked to the accident but a function of the increased screening: look harder, find more!
Known unknowns: a look at what we know we don’t know about the universe.
Another in the series of jobs you never wanted to do: Pig Semen Catcher
How the jungle fowl got to be the chicken.
So just why do big cats love Calvin Klein Obsession for Men
Long read on the disease that may or may not be Morgellons.
And next up a somewhat disturbing read about the menstrual myths of the Indian sub-continent.
From the icky to the slightly less icky: five things you didn’t know about earwax.
One of these days the medical profession will make up their minds about food. Now we’re being told that almost everything we’ve they’ve said about unhealthy foods is wrong.
However this is why dark chocolate is thought to be good for you. It’s all to do with microbes.
Changing flightpath completely, here’s an amazing video realisation of just one day of the flights over Europe. [Download required]
Combining transport and history, there’s a battle going on between English Heritage and archaeologists about approaches to looking at anything historic uncovered by HS2 rail link.
Cats again. New work on some ancient Egyptian kitten skeletons suggests cats were domesticated in Egypt much earlier than thought.
We all know they’re unruly, but here’s how medieval Europe tackled teenagers.

Just north of Heathrow Airport there’s a massive medieval barn, the “Middlesex Cathedral”. Here are the days it’s open to the public this summer.
And finally I’ll leave you with a selection of absolutely pointlessly gendered products. Their excuse is what?