Links for you. Science:
Are Grad Students Smart?
Taxonomy: The naming crisis
Are antibiotics making our kids fat?
Wind Power Without the Blades: Big Pics
Arsenic life, four months later: pay no attention to the internet
Other:
James O'Keefe and Journalistic Malpractice
A child couldn't paint that - can people tell abstract art from a child's or chimp's work?
The record needs breaking very soon! (about budget deficits)
Due to his emotional blockage, David Brooks can't tell the truth
Dropping Rocks: Los Angeles
The Fukushima legacy
More like this
So I've just told you to avoid underestimating college students, but I guess you shouldn't do the same with Republicans, especially Breitbart-style Republicans.
The video comes from Project Veritas, and is another in political activist James O'Keefe's undercover exposes (he most prominently took on ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).
Ben Stein, for those of you who have forgotten, played a bit role in the classic '80s movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He played the annoying economics teacher, a role he was uniquely qualified for by being boring and having been bored by his father, an accomplished economist.
If you haven't heard, rightwing slime mongerer James O'Keefe struck again and managed to give National Public Radio (NPR) a black eye, although to a considerable extent,
Thanks a bunch for sharing our link. And the other gems present, I have learned much today.