Bin Laden's dead. Still other things worth linking to though. Science:
Hiding the doomsday device: camouflage and venom in stonefish
Acculturating students to science
Falsehood: "If this was the Stone Age, I'd be dead by now"
Other:
Earth to Libertarians: Private Parties Have Coercive Power Too
Richard Davey's Anti-Family Proposal
How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
Mayors To Washington: Stop Fooling Around, Help Us Create Jobs
Dense, Denser, Densest
The Global Economy's Corporate Crime Wave
Walras' Law vs Monetary Disequilibrium Theory
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