Links for you. Science:
How to Wipe Out a Family
Animal Domestication
The Bayh-Dole Act
Sequence Analysis 101: A newbie's guide to crunching next-generation sequencing data
The Mind of a Police Dog
Republican Budget Cuts at Heart of Medical Research: Albert Hunt
Other:
Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About
Dear Washington DC: The Public Is Smarter About Money (and Deficits) Than You Are
The Relationship between Union Membership and State Budget Deficits
It's the Inequality, Stupid
Free Trade, Efficiency, and a Punch in the Nose
Why our fascination continues: The Michelle Rhee story neatly captures the way our discourse works.