Links for you. Science:

Common antibiotic could help cut TB deaths
The Monkey House Ends a 111-Year Run in the Bronx, a Victim of Zoo Evolution
How the sawfish wields its saw… like a swordsman
Scientists and tourists bring thousands of alien seeds into Antarctica

Other:

Unemployment matters more than GDP or inflation (I would also include wages)
Birth Control Coverage is Not About Religious Liberty (the last part of the post is must-read)
Limbaugh And The Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown
Confessions of a ‘Bad’ Teacher
Revisiting The “5-10 Percent Solution” (value-added testing is miserable at assessing individual teacher performance, and DiCarlo is a moderate on this issue)
What’s Behind the Slut-Shaming
Did Catholics Pay to Snip Roy Blunt?
The Scourge of Overemployment
This Is What Happens When You Try to Steal a Girl Scout’s Cookie Money
Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching
On the Continuing Oxymoron of Ethics at Harvard
How I Left My Ultra-Orthodox, Ultra-Repressed Hasidic Community (the link between religious violence and male sexual repression is interesting)
What’s so Funny about Rush Limbaugh?