Links for you. Science:

The Hidden Health Costs of the Global Financial Crisis (among other things, birth weights drop 3 percent)
Researchers Are Gathering Pee From Nightclub Toilets to Track Drug Use (ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE CAREER)
Punching down much?
On pastrami and the business of PLOS
People infected with cat parasite ‘twice as likely to explode in anger and suffer uncontrolled bouts of fury’

Other:

People don’t grasp that there are ethical codes in irregular war…
TERRORISM WOULD SEEM A LOT LESS TERRIFYING IF THE EUROPEAN AUTHORITIES WERE MORE COMPETENT
Pet Peeve: An America that Sees Only Itself
Cop Removed From Shaw Library After Claims He Harassed Muslim
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860
Is America Next? I’ll make no guarantees, but there’s a reason these terror attacks keep happening in Europe
How Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival sold out to anti-vaccine crackpots
How The Democratic Elite Betrayed Their Party And Paved The Way For Donald Trump
Sprawl and the Declining City
Dear Sister Veit, does your health plan cover Viagra for non procreative sex?
Erik Prince in the Hot Seat: Blackwater’s Founder Is Under Investigation for Money Laundering, Ties to Chinese Intel, and Brokering Mercenary Services
What is wrong with National Geographic?
As Rahm Emanuel Argues Yet Again for CPS Cuts, It’s Time to Stop Believing His Cries of ‘Crisis’
A Kinder Logan’s Run?
Wall Street expert Asher Edelman shocks CNBC: Bernie Sanders is best for the economy
Unsurprising
A Carnival of Pandering: Yesterday at AIPAC
Why We Must Build: We can’t build our way out of the housing crisis … but we won’t get out without building.