Links for you. Science:

Updating the age of first NIH R01 award trends: Flatlining
Highest Rates Ever Recorded of Multi-Drug-Resistant TB
Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science
Exploring the Sourdoughome
A response to one Elsevier employee, and an open letter to the rest

Other:

Women know something you don’t (must-read)
My debate with Charles Murray: His genetic fatalism made it hard to find solutions to the dangerous American class divide we both lament
Do Conservatives Understand How the Female Body Works? The Myth Fueling the Right-Wing Freak-Out Over Birth Control
Volcker and Banks
Conservatives’ Cultural Agonies at CPAC (these guys are so sexually repressed I almost feel sorry for them. Almost)
Charles Colson: Still repeating a lie he knows is a lie
What Jeremy Lin Teaches Us About Talent
You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face
Why Are There So Many Passive Parents? (they’re not ‘passive’, they are just inconsiderate assholes who think their children are always more important than everyone else)
The killing of Greece
Marshall Auerback: Greece – A Default is Better Than the Deal on Offer
Drug Shortages Reveal the Free Market is Failing Our Sickest Patients
9 Kick-Ass Things Obama Should Do In a Second Term (he won’t do any of these things since they require deficit spending, and Obama is a Rockefeller Republican)