Links for you. Science:

How Physics Falls Apart If The EMdrive Works
Science’s Minority Talent Pool Is Growing—but Draining Away
Predatory bacteria can wipe out superbugs, says study

Other:

2009: The year the Democratic Party died (must-read)
Prodigal Scum: Rightbloggers Come Home to President-Elect Trump
Explain why Democrats, after 8 years, should treat your party any differently than you treated ours
More on the time Rudy Giuliani helped incite a riot of racist cops
NPR’S MASTER CLASS IN WHITEWASHING THE STEVE BANNON APPOINTMENT
Why Trump Won – And Clinton Lost – And What It Could Mean for the Country and the Parties
The 12 Rules for Not Getting in Trouble at Katz’s Deli
Here’s Why It’s Fair—and Necessary—to Call Trump’s Chief Strategist a White Nationalist Champion
Why Steve Bannon’s white nationalism should scare America
What to Do About Trump? The Same Thing My Grandfather Did in 1930s Vienna.
Preparing for the Worst: How Conservatives Will Govern in 2017
The Ivory Trump Tower: What Trump means for higher education
This Is Not Normal
Anti-Defamation League decries Stephen Bannon, while many other Jewish groups stay silent
What it really means now that Donald Trump appointed vulgar, sexist, abusive, xenophobic Stephen Bannon as Chief Strategist
Chris Arnade on his year embedded with Trump supporters
Obama built a policy legacy. But he didn’t do enough to build the Democratic Party
Teachers Should Tell the Truth About Trump: The President-elect is a bigot and children are right to be scared
The Years of Living Dangerously