Thank goodness it's...Thursday. Crap. Some links to get you through. Science:
Oldest Homo sapiens fossil? Journalistic vaporware
A Fistful of Teeth - Do the Qesem Cave Fossils Really Change Our Understanding of Human Evolution?
How many species of elephant? (with bonus rants)
Other:
How a Different America Responded to the Great Depression (economically, Americans were more liberal back then. Most uncivil)
U.S. Still Richly Rewarding Banksters-- Demonizing Schoolteachers
What Newark Schools Need
Contrary to the NYT's Assertion, Japan Does Not "Face a Looming Demographic Squeeze"
Charlie, out from the underground: MBTA acknowledging radical roots of folk hero celebrated in subway song
Republicans in Their Own Words -- Quotations of a Party on Crack, 2010 Version: Part 2, When Cousins Marry
More Small Businesses Offering Health Care To Employees Thanks To Obamacare
The Pew's Tax Expenditure Database on Housing Subsidies.