Links for you. Science:

Save Scholarly Ideas, Not the Publishing Industry (a rant)
The Center of Every Snowflake is a Bacterium: Pseudomonas Syringae
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix
Discovery of the world’s tiniest frogs

Other:

Dem Senators to Obama administration: On Plan B, it’s put up or shut up time
Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?
On the Purposes of Schooling
Where do teachers come from? (the teacher fairy. Duh!)
From Finland, an Intriguing School-Reform Model
Bernanke’s 29 Trillion Dollar Fog of Deceit (there seem to be two separate arguments here: 1) how much money would the Treasury have had to sent to the Fed if everything went bust; 2) how much free (very low interest) money did essentially insolvent banks get to play with in order to restore their balance sheets?)
“If I Were a Poor Black Kid…”
Separating Gay Penguin Duo Pedro and Buddy Turned Them Straight
Philip Pilkington: A Scribbler’s Response to Marc Lavoie on MMT
Steve Keen: How He Saw “It” Coming, and Others Did Not
More evidence that “independents” don’t “swing”