Links for you. Science:

Why Outsourcing Science May Be The Best Hope for Its Future (interesting, but more complex than that. It will come down to relative costs: DIY learning curve and costs, versus outsourcing costs)
The Prozac Yogurt Effect: How Hype Can Affect the Future of Science
Why does Myrmecos Blog have it out for E. O. Wilson? (old, but interesting and still relevant)
Overselling the connectome

Other:

Lumps of Labor
The fundamental question for the left
Romney the Bizarrely Anti-Base Candidate
Buy-and-Hold Can’t Die
The End of Health Insurance as We know It?
A Challenge to Rush: Prove Your Ratings
Just An Idea: Maybe Your Moderates Could Try Being Moderate
And you decked some fucking blackshirt
Lavatory and Liberty
Power Mad DA Charges Berkeley Professor & Students Beaten by UC Police. (you made me hit you? WTF?)
Yes, you are a bad person
House GOP calls for turning macroeconomic policy over to a cabal of unelected bankers, with instructions to ignore the jobless (this is not hyperbole. Really)
Why Should Anti-Choice and Anti-Gay Groups Have More Right to Boycott and Picket Than Unions?
Not Even a Fig Leaf: The Blatant Self-Dealing of Chairman McKeon