Interesting links | 23rd September 2013

Below is a varied collection of the best articles and interesting reads I have found online over the last month or so. Articles marked with a heart I found particularly good.

A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics | Quanta Magazine Conflict Minerals | National Geographic The Pacifics Perilous Turn | The Seattle Times ♥ Sleeping with the enemy | The Economist In Situ Observations of Interstellar Plasma With Voyager 1 | Science Magazine They're Taking Over! | The New York Review of Books ♥ Issue 82: The Secret Life of Nuns | Oxford American Taxonomy: The spy who loved frogs | Nature The Geeks on the frontlines | Rolling Stone Neil Gaiman on Writing | Youtube video from The Nerdist Podcast Replacing X − Wayland's Rise | Linux User The President and the Pipeline | The New Yorker The Moral Dilemmas of Doctors During Disaster | The New Yorker A Moderation Manifesto by Karol Edward Sołtan | Los Angeles Review of Books Civet coffee: why it's time to cut the crap | The Guardian Inducible CYP2J2 and Its Product 11,12-EET Promotes Bacterial Phagocytosis: A Role for CYP2J2 Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Crohn's Disease? | PLOS ONE Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation | Current Biology