Links for you. Science:

Begging The Question
Call the bioinformatics police!
For God’s Sake, Go Get a Flu Shot
Petition to ban intelligence involvement in public health campaigns (for those unaware about this, polio vaccination workers are being murdered in Taliban-controlled areas of Pakistan after the CIA gathered intelligence on Bin Laden by pretending to be health workers)
The Flu, Explained
Congress is Killing Medical Research

Other:

US already has high elder poverty rate; how can cutting Social Security even be on the table? (great minds think alike)
T Driver’s Sayings Lift Orange Line Commute (this guy is awesome. I wish he were still on the Red Line)
Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science
The Failure of Rheeism
‘The Left’ and Public Choice Theory
Why Jack Lew’s Labor Views Matter
Criminalizing Poverty
Fox Gets Conservative: Did the Denver coach’s risk-averse approach cost the Broncos a playoff victory?
Trainwreck at the edge of the water
Lead and Crime: How it Connects to Race
A few thoughts on depression