Links for you. Science:

A new medication that is sure to succeed
Sausage flies and a sense of scale
Rare rusty-spotted cat kittens born in Berlin
The cost of sequencing
Munching on Bamboo (Shark)

Other:

Why Do the Sunday Shows Suck So Much?
My Short, Unhappy Life as a Sorority Girl
Pack of yahoos
Up And Down With Andrew Sullivan
The City Museum: St. Louis’ Happy Mutant wonderland
Neighborhood Association Opposes Hereford Street Project (it looks really ugly, and with all of the open storefronts, is this really needed?)

How Congress Turns Deficit Reduction Turns Into a Videogame (the first part is key)
Chávez Election Not So Different from the Rest of South America
Dem pollster delivers wake up call to Obama
Non-Religious Voters Getting Even More Democratic (this argument is also why most Jews aren’t Republicans too)
Cyberbullies 101: Part 1 – muffling their megaphones