Links for you. Science:

Girls in STEM
The emergence of “nodding disease”
Has Modern Science Become Dysfunctional?
NIH director to Cambridge biotechnology executives: Coming years won’t be easy

Other:

Apple and the risks of trading 29,000 times per second
Seeing is Believing: The Story Behind Henry Heinz’s Condiment Empire
Americans Prefer Having Cake, Eating It: Sometimes you have to just ignore public opinion. (ultimately, people have to like this crap)
Red States See Massive Public Sector Job Losses
The ‘Color-Blind’ Delusions of the Trayvon Backlash (“It must be difficult to be a black person in America. You live in a universe replete with unfortunate coincidental events.”)
White House Burning: Putting Out the Wrong Fire
Top .01%, Top 1%, Bottom 99%
How income, class, religion, etc. relate to political party
Former Chancellor Levy Says Profs Should Work More
Healthcare Jujitsu (Obama won’t do this for the simple reason that he never wanted to expand Medicare to all or a public option. Would be nice though)
The Shelf Life of Total B.S.