delightful microcosms Man collects sand, seawater, and seaweed in a jar, and a year later the jar is teeming with life Mark Frauenfelder
Science Dinner’s Revenge: mealworms that survive in the stomach, then eat their way out of predators Mary Roach
happy mutants RIP, John Paul Miller, a genius goldsmith and creator of many lovely gold crustaceans Cory Doctorow