Links for you. Science:

We really don’t care what statistical method you used (funny)
ANTIBIOTICS…TIME TO CLOSE SOME LOOPHOLES
Smug Promoters of Vaccine-Preventable Disease
Gun violence is a U.S. public health problem (yes, it is)
Taming the Impact Factor

Other:

What I Learned in Law School (on Aurora, CO; excellent)
THE VIKING CONSPIRACY (OR, I’M NOT JEW I’M JEW-ISH)
A Day in Your Life: Though we usually fail to notice it, government programs and policies improve our daily lives in innumerable ways.
How Urban Parks Enhance Your Brain (don’t tell Yglesias)
Welcome to the New Syria (all the people who thought Libya was excellent policy might want to read this and reconsider)
A Canadian gets an ‘up close and personal’ with a Tea Party lady
Choking dog saves its own life by dialling 999
Randy Wray: Why We’re Screwed (while the commenters degenerated into arguments about capitalism, the larger point is correct–fraud is systemic in our economy and it’s not clear how we’ll fix that)
The Nonsense Invasion of Knowledge, From Elizabeth Warren to Climategate
Why aren’t we focused on the guns?
The Next 48 Hours Summarized For You in One Short Post
Things That Need to Change: Punitive Attitudes Toward the Poor
Social Science is Hard
How Republicans Sabotaged the Recovery: The economy didn’t jump. It was pushed.
FL Retiree “There’s Just Something About Obama’s Healthcare Law That I Don’t Care For” (I think there’s an obvious explanation. Whatever could it be?)
The Divine Miss M