Links for you. Science:

Freelancers Organize to Demand Payment From Beleaguered Nautilus Magazine
Bam! A parasitic Aphidius wasp lays her egg in a hapless aphid.
The Terrible Truth About Dreidel
The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
A hot attraction among Boston’s many: obese squirrels

Other:

Literal Shit Exploded Out of a Water Fountain at the EPA
There Are No Refs
What Actually Happened in Alabama?
NO PASSING FANCY
The Ultimate Problem With Libertarian Populism
Bedrock
HHS holds back critical comments on faith-based rule
The Case for Bad Coffee
This old drug was free. Now it’s $109,500 a year.
Elizabeth Warren: Congress needs to fund community health centers right away
Warren and Sanders: Who Is Congress Really Serving?
Corporatizatizing The All-Administrative University
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe proposes higher taxes in Northern Virginia to support Metro
The single biggest reason America is failing in its response to the opioid epidemic (Vox, discovering what was already reasonably well known and claiming it as a novel insight)
Arlington creates housing conservation district — but some say too quickly
Conservative backlash against #MeToo is coming, and soon
The Uncomfortable Truth About Swedish Anti-Semitism