Links for you. Science:

Is “Scientific Data” ever-finer salami-slicing, or is it reducing time to data publication?
Bigwigs fingered in Hwange elephant poisoning
GTEx is throwing away 90% of their data
Houston, We Have Dengue Fever
How Much Money Do Science Writers Make?

Other:

We Band of Shitbirds (amazing old-school blog rant)
Economics is making us greedier
Liquidity Preference, Loanable Funds, and Erskine Bowles
What the Shutdown Revealed About the Economic Divides in U.S. Politics
Utah rock vandal filed lawsuit in September, claims disability
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
The Rightwing No Longer Understands What the Heritage Foundation was For (in terms of policy, they’ve always been garbage)
So, so close
Is This True?
The Infographic That Ate Wall Street
TROUBLE ON THE HOMEFRONT
Raising Minnesota: The Ripley technique!