Links for you. Science:

Dialing it up to eleven
How Much Logging Can Tropical Forests Withstand? (one thing to remember is that much of the tropical rainforest has already been affected by humans centuries ago; in some places, especially near rivers and floodplains, the ‘wild’ forest is reclaimed farmland)
Phengodidae Sp. (glowworms)
Insects eat up more urban trash than rats do—and they’re dying out

Other:

Phosphorus and Freedom: The Libertarian Fantasy (excellent)
The New Racism: This is how the civil rights movement ends (excellent)
Why is enterprise software so bad?
Washington DC from murder capital to boomtown
IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME LIBERTARIANS AROUND, TO HAVE A MOMENT OR SOMETHING
Midwestern Police Trying New ‘Shoot All Black People’ Approach
We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It
That problem from Hell again
A culture of envy
Republican fear-mongering on Iraq isn’t going to work
The creator of Godwin’s Law on the inevitability of online Nazi analogies and the ‘right to be forgotten’
Why Black Campaign Staffers Get Screwed
A school choice advocate argues for a student assignment proposal that no longer exists (not a bad proposal but Boston’s is better)
The Entitlement of the Very Rich