Links for you. Science:

The dwindling American science majors (provocative; worth reading)
Not All Attrition Is Bad
Disruptions: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why
NIH Alumni: Where are they now? Profile 6 – Science Policy Analyst

Other:

The Lost Opportunities of Iran-Contra, 25 Years Later (this is why all that ‘looking forward, not back’ crap Obama likes is so pernicious)
United States of economic insecurity (charts)
Measuring skulls
It Wasn’t (Just) About the Money: Lockouts never are — they’re about control
10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion
Illegal Immigration, the Seeds of Racism & the People We’ll Choose to Be
Behind closed doors, Obama administration politicizes the regulatory process (meet the new boss, same as the old boss…)
Priorities
Scenario fulfillment
Revisionism Never Sleeps
Back In the Day, We Didn’t Need an Internet to Be Idiots