Links for you. Science:

The Red (Meat) Scare (great post, but why are there no links to sources?)
Helium stocks run low – and party balloons are to blame
Your doctor is there for you, even when you aren’t sick
Why Bilinguals Are Smarter (then again, I’m a bilingual…)
Washington Times denies that Richard Dawkins is an ape
Humans aren’t monkeys. We aren’t apes, either.

Other:

Trayvon (excellent points about the ‘gun culture’)
A school board president abuses his position to promote an antivaccine movie (this will help educational performance…)
A Seven Day Plan to Finally Hold Wall Street Accountable
Learning From Teach For America
To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements
Women’s Rights: I think that sums it up.
How America’s Obsession With Money Deadens Us
New Look at an Old Memo Casts More Doubt on Rehnquist
WINGNUTTERY WITH LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS (I think this is right: despite the popular belief that Massachusetts is liberal, a lot of moderate-sounding Republicans do very well because they’re not batshitloonitarians or Southern theocrats)
What’s This “We ” Jazz, White Man? Robert Samuelson Edition