Hummingbirds have great memories, and would in fact die of starvation if they didn’t. The Globe and Mail explains the how and why.

Have you listened to what your DNA has to say lately? There are many projects out there that generate music based on DNA sequence input, such as this one.

And finally, us bioinformaticians have apparently been confronted with an ultimatum: consult, or die. I thought that it was an interesting read.