Links for you. Science:

What Might Knock Illumina Off Its Perch?
Why the Tropics are an evolutionary hotbed
Really, why shouldn’t we leave US science in the hands of a conservative tea party lawyer?
Forest ecology: Splinters of the Amazon
More antibiotics may not always be better

Other:

Unanimous Consent– If Not Courageous (and science funding will also be left in the lurch)
The Great Degrader
Spartacus
Obama: Mortgaging the Living to Save the Wealth of the Dead
‘Cape Fear,’ and Our Fear
What If the Tsarnaevs Had Been the “Boston Shooters”?
A Non-Muslim Just Carried Live IEDs Onto a Train, and the Media Didn’t Report It
No, Matt Yglesias, Bangladeshi Workers Didn’t Choose To Be Crushed To Death
Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced
10 of the worst examples of management-speak (I would have included ‘impact‘)
Citizen complaint of the day: America’s slobbiest name in news
Fathers and Sons and Chechnya
Five myths about electric cars
If this was a pill, you’d do anything to get it