Links for you. Science:

Mooney now agrees with us – Denialists deserve ridicule, not debate (absolute must-read for all)
The Problems With Calling Comments “Post-Publication Peer-Review”
James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy’s junket?
New model helps explain “hidden heritability”
The surprisingly toxic world of lichens

Other:

Are We Doomed to Wage Wars Over Water?
Atheists at prayer (I think this will get a lot of knee-jerk reaction, but the point about reaction-to-fundamentalism is very important)
Culture war is about culture
Make way for ducklings
Nobody goes there, it’s too crowded
Zoning laws and property rights
A Smartphone Future? But Not Yet (I like being able to take pictures with my iPhone, and in emergency situations, being able to communicate is good. But I also have to work very hard to resist the temptation to push buttons out of reflex. I sympathize since I had a crappy phone for eight years that did very little)
When the rug is pulled
It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid
My Take: Where’s white church outrage over Trayvon Martin?
Carefully Scripted Lives – The Real Reality of the Duggar Family “Blessings”
On the Meaningless of Contracts and the New Optionality