Links for you. Science:

Carcinogen use and release declines dramatically in Massachusetts: An important step in cancer prevention
Rescue Efforts for Trapped Antarctic Voyage Disrupt Serious Science
Will new FDA guidelines reduce threat from superbugs?
Have Republicans changed views on evolution? Or have creationists changed party? Pew’s (half-released) numbers don’t add up … (if you try to dig into the numbers, it gets really weird)
Breast Cancer Screenings: What We Still Don’t Know

Other:

I taught at the worst school in Texas: My time at Pearce was an unforgettable lesson in what the education reformers get wrong (must-read)
The Strange Case of American Inequality
Rentacops on desktops: Edward Snowden’s dismissal of Surveillance Valley is wrong, and dangerous
New York Times Benghazi Report May Prove GOP Wrong On Al Qaeda, But It’s Hardly An Exoneration
A New Year of Free Opportunities at Boston Public Library
2014
How To Code, 1960s Style: Pen, paper and the three-strikes rule
They’re Back: The Poltergeists in the Kansas Senate Renew their Attack on Education
The Obamacare We Deserve
Who stops paying Social Security taxes after today?
The War Nerd: Mo cattle and oil, mo problems in South Sudan
There Is A Natural Order To This World
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“THE NEW PROGRESSIVISM”: LESS CELEBRITY AND LESS TIMIDITY, PLEASE