Links for you. Science:

Monster leech swallows giant worm
Grants for research get scarcer: Harvard scientists face funding gap
Ebola and WHO budget cuts
NIH Doctor Takes Fox’s Chris Wallace to Science School over Ebola Panic (good for Fauci)
Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up

Other:

Times Change (excellent; news story here)
Reading, Writing, Ransacking (excellent)
White poverty exists, ignored (long, but good read)
The Best Possible Day
Abortion Isn’t a Necessary Evil. It’s Great
City Coffers, Not Police Budgets, Hit Hard By the High Cost of Brutality
Seven things we now know about how the world has handled Ebola (interesting poly sci perspective)
Overweight Teenagers Earn Less as Adults
NAIRU theory — closer to religion than science (actually, it’s garbage)
Who is blocking EMR interoperability? You are.
It Is News That the AIG Bailout Was a Way to Give Money to Goldman Sachs
I Accidentally Fooled Conservative Twitter with a Fake Lena Dunham Quote
In virtual mega-drought, California avoids defeat