Links for you. Science:

Debunking Two Nate Silver Myths
Connecting the genetic dots of disease
My take on the sequencing buzz at #ASHG2012
Wasp Moth (Amata sp., Arctiinae)

Other:

The ethics of outing your rapist (must-read)
The coming debt battle: Citing a phony “crisis,” the GOP wants to gut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Democrats can’t let them (must-read)
Who’s to Blame for the “Fiscal Cliff” Misnomer?
Prophetic Sign in Lynn foretells Scott Brown’s Loss
The Gary Johnson Swindle and the Degradation of Third Party Politics
How the Democrats Can Make the Republicans Pay
Please, For the Love of God, Stop Talking About Raising the Retirement Age (I will have to retire no earlier than 67; somehow our brilliant political reporting class does not realize this)
What Obama can do about all those voting problems
Slowest children of the press corps
The Tax Revolt Is Over
The Kafkaesque World of the No-Fly List
Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth (moochers?)
Sandy inspires first Doctors Without Borders U.S. relief effort
The Elephant in the Exit Poll Results: Most White Women Supported Romney (I would like to see how younger white women voted, in and outside of the South)
Getting the Questions Right (I think the answer is more simple: when people don’t like the economy they respond with either inflation or deficits depending on how they’re prompted)
Ron Paul: Corrupt (stealing from the government. FREEDOM!)