Links for you. Science:

The horizontal PDF and other suggestions re:papers
Overselling the microbiome award: Scientists look to mummies for obesity cure
Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information

Other:

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad National Debt? (excellent piece)
Noblesse Oblige
Burn down the mission
Ron Paul & Clicktivism
There is no There There — Ron Paul’s Loud, Thin Base
‘Violence against women is as American as apple pie’: Congresswoman recounts personal ordeal of being sexually assaulted as a child and date raped as an adult
Overconfidence
Phone service for all, no matter what kind
Votes and Vowels: A Changing Accent Shows How Language Parallels Politics
Is There More to Sen. Snowe’s Resignation Than Congress’s “Crumbling Center”?
Primary rival’s campaign reminds voters that Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin is Jewish
In Defense of Peter Beinart
Elberfeld-Barmen Road, view of city, Germany (amazing picture)