Links for you. Science:

Why the Clear Food’s hot dog report is flawed and misleading! (excellent; must-read)
So Will Processed Meat Give You Cancer?
Research funding: Is size really the most important thing?
Indonesia’s Forest Fires Take Toll on Wildlife, Big and Small
We definitely do not need a “Steve Jobs” in biology (we might need it in applied genomics, maybe?)

Other:

Stop Hillary! Vote no to a Clinton dynasty (whether you agree or not, there are some very serious questions here that Clinton supporters need to consider)
Defining Neediness
Study on online charter schools: ‘It is literally as if the kid did not go to school for an entire year’
VSPs Get Their Way With Budget Deal: Social Security Benefits Are Cut
New York, this is my last chance
Eva Moskowitz and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month
The GOP’s Grotesque Festival of Lies
White Nationalists Gather On Halloween To Discuss How Oppressed They Are
Classified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front Of Their Mothers (it’s not enough to release the videos; the perpetrators need to prosecuted as war criminals, and deals need to be made to see how far up the chain of command this went)
The Yellow Admirals of Academia
Want a Safer City? Keep Daylight Savings Time Year Round!
Petrilli: Creaming Is a Feature
Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice
The Budget Deal Closed a Social Security Loophole: And that might be bad news for divorced women heading toward retirement.
The University of North Carolina’s New President Is Shockingly Anti-Gay
UNC board raises chancellors’ pay in closed session
Homeopathy Is a Bitter Sugar Pill: It won’t cure what ails you, but it can get you drunk