Have an easy fast if you’re fasting. Links for you. Science:

Gut Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down
What Limits My Science?
Sleep deprivation increases food purchasing the next day
Here Comes the Story of No Hurricanes
They’re Taking Over!

Other:

The Senate’s Syria Resolution Has a Huge Secret Giveaway to the President
Amid the Unwashed Masses
Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell to Make Us Miserable
Achievement Gaps Shrunk Faster in the 70s and 80s than Over the Past Decade (note to education reformers: creationists bring better game than this)
Thinking Like Coase, Not an Economist
This Is How The World Ends
CHINATOWN: COMBAT ZONE UNDER SIEGE
Like Haggard’s mom, Paul Farhi tried!
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Stepping in for the Washington Post!
American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids. Here’s How–In defense of the wild child
Former Wall Street Woman Says She Faced Improper Advances From Married Traders And Lots Of Boob Jokes