These are my links for October 22nd 2012 from 09:00 to 19:02:

• Short Sharp Science: Craig Venter’s plan to email vaccines around the world – "Antivirus software takes on a whole new meaning when you can spam-email Ebola or the 1918 flu." >
• First analysis of beluga whale mimicking human speech – life – 22 October 2012 – New Scientist – Think I sat next to him on the bus RT @rowhoop: The whale mimicking human speech – was he imitating a raving drunkard?
• CultureLab: Digging up the dead: London’s ghoulish legacy – Elsewhere in ghoul news: @CultureLabNS write up the @museumoflondon "resurrection men" exhibition I visited last week >
• New Scientist TV: Sea lice mob devours pig from the inside out – Happy Monday! RT @newscientist: Watch underwater sea lice devour a dead pig from the inside out < surprise at 1'26"
• Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can’t be read – life – 27 May 2009 – New Scientist – And here's our 2009 feature on proto-Elamite and seven other ancient scripts that hadn't yet been deciphered >
• BBC News – Breakthrough in world’s oldest undeciphered writing – "Educational underinvestment proved fatal for the writing system, which was corrupted and then completely disappeared"
• Drugs in the Italian air are nothing to snort at – life – 20 October 2012 – New Scientist – La dolce vita RT @newscientist: When in Rome, you get a little hit of #cocaine with every breath
• Portfolio of the Week – Nigel Hawtin | Visual Loop – MT @nigelhawtin: A privilege to be included on @visualoop as Portfolio of the Week.
• Untitled (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/oct/19/yuri-suzuki-globe-vinyl-record) – WANT RT @PD_Smith: #Wow – The Sound of the Earth, a spherical vinyl record