Links for you. Science:
Bible thumping as a science experiment
A well informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will
Colorado Wildfire: Our Scorching Future?
How Not to Do Science Education
Banning large sugar sweetened drinks is a start
Other:
Surging MBTA ridership could overwhelm system, report warns (tell me again why it was so fucking hard to figure out how to spend money in 2009? Fuck)
U.S. government to use ‘drones the size of GOLF BALLS to spy on AMERICAN citizens’ (FREEDOM!!!)
Earth to the President: voters and donors you need are checking out of the process
You Messed It All Up
No Shame in Abortion, Let’s Get Darcy’s Back
Plenty to Hide
Obama Plans to Put Foreign Companies Above the Law
Why Conservatives Blame Single Moms for the Disastrous Failures of the Right-Wing Economic Model
Adelson’s Mad Money
Boston Dudley Do-Nothing
Nobody loves standards (and that’s O.K.)
Measuring Schools
I especially like how we need to go to offshore sources to get relevant, accurate information on our own country. Where would we be without al Jazeera, the British press, and Reuters? We should be ashamed.