Must-see gallery at Wired: Best microscope photos of the year.

Slow-motion flipping-cat physics, with bonus buttered-toast/cat paradox video.

The real-life neuroscience behind zombies.

Top ten monsters of the Middle Ages.

Ten figures of speech illustrated by Monty Python: paradiastole, epanorthosis, syncatabasis, and more.

Watch a tick burrowing into skin in microscopic detail.

ICYMI, Wednesday’s links are here.