Links 3/17/11

Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day with...links? Science:

No Face, but Plants Like Life Too (if plants had vocal chords, they would be SCREAMING)
Ocean Acidification
Alien vs. Predator: Biocontrol Edition
Older female elephants are wiser matriarchs

Other:

Tax Haven USA attracts over $3 trillion in foreign dirty money (my guess is that much of it isn't tax avoidance, but illegally acquired-gains)
How House GOP spending cuts would add up to more spending later
Those Bastards Stole My Meth! (about many conservatives sudden horror at the movement they helped spawn)
Whistling Past the Ruins: The "Education Moment"
More advantages that blatant liars have
Tax Expenditures a Good Target for Deficit-Reduction Efforts
A "New Normal" Unemployment Rate? Little evidence backing claims of higher structural unemployment or skills mismatch.