Sunday Science 201215

This Sunday Miscellany Gig - It's getting to be a habit with me. I hope you aren't going to get dependent on me churning other men's flowers.  Anyway here are some updates on Bloboprevs.

• Joshua "Moonwalking with Einstein" Foer shares his Memory Palace. [previously] [previouslier]
• Slava Epstein and his novel antibiotics: report by Carl Zimmer [previously]
• BMJ's Christmas Edition [paywalled after first article?] looks at the growth of Positive Words in PubMed [prevly][prevlier] 
• My understanding of Kant is that he was a very black and white kind of chap.  A lie is a Bad Thing and there is no place where such an ethically dubious practice could be carried out. This quiz allows to so see where on the shades of grey your fibbing moral-compass lies.