Links for you. Science:

Large-scale data exploration, MIC-style
Nature really is real
This Time It’s Personal: Women In STEM
Mr. Pearson, meet Mr. Mandelbrot: Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets

Other:

The Religious Right Ain’t What it Used to Be
Why Free-Market Economics is a Fraud
The Scandal that Breaks College Football? (RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!)
American Patriotism–Love the Soldiers in Abstract, Wave the Flag, Forget the Bums When They Return
The failure of Austerity
Michigan’s homeless students: Foreclosure crisis takes toll on 31,000 kids
Do not judge public figures on how “nice” they are
Ready. Set. Race.
Hitchens
EPILOGUE—A TALE OF THREE ELITES
10 Years of Assessing Students With Scientific Exactitude
Shadowstats debunked