The birth control pill, which put a dent not just in science and medicine, but in the dynamics of human interaction, has a new biography out.The book tells the thrilling, but often ethically compromised story of birth control rabble rouser Margaret Sanger, suffragette Katharine McCormick, controversial researcher Gregory Pincus, and physician John Rock - as they developed the most impactful invention of the modern age.

Fast Company has a great article on the paradoxical traits of creative personalities based on the work of psychology professor and noted creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi that rang true for me as both an artist and a geek.

Drs. May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser are newly minted Nobel laureates along with their mentor Dr. John O'Keefe. The committee honored them for their discovery of the specific cells, now known as "grid cells," that are responsible for representing the three-dimensional map that the brain makes as it travels through a space.

A recent post in Fast Company highlights the increasing popularity of "giving while living" styles of charity:

"And the minute they'd gone," says Lynne, "I leaped up. I leaped on his desk, I leaped off his desk. I danced all around the room. I had the most fabulous time. And he said - he immortalized; I really owe my whole career, in a way, and I suppose my life to this man - he said, there is nothing wrong with your child. She's a born dancer."

Dr. Gorbee Logan noticed that there were similarities between how Ebola and HIV replicate themselves and decided to treat some of his Ebola patients with an HIV drug. He has tried the drug on 15 patients, and all but two have survived. While this is not a statistically significant sample, it's a much higher survival rate than is currently being reported elsewhere.

Just as 17th century microbiology pioneer Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used his homemade microscope to view the previously unseen world of microbes, scientists today are creating a map of the dark matter in the universe; applying computer models to the gravitational forces impacting the stuff that we can observe directly to theorize about the nature of what we cannot.

esterday, we looked at modern day microbiologists who are looking to the flora within the human body as a source for new methods of killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Today, we travel back to 1647 and the birth of microbiology with the New York Times.

With the rise of so-called superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to most antibiotics, humanity is in a race against time to find new ways of killing potentially deadly microorganisms. Some scientists think that looking to our own biomes may be a great place to find new ways of killing off unwelcome bacteria: