Friday Links

Is it time to ban recess?

9,000 year old tuberculosis.

Who is the real Obama?

Can magnets cure deep coma?

Can electricity cure paralysis?

Wind-powerd bicycle lights.

Democracy vs. Property.

Is Jobs leaving Apple?

You need a podcar.

A ton of snake.

The $58 trillion elephant in the living room.

Balloon sculpture.

Google's chips are hotter than thine.

Don't laugh at the bear.

What is the speed of life?

Wednesday Links

Hang the Christians.

H1-B visa fraud is rampant.

Why "Russian human rights" is an oxymoron.

Black silicon to the rescue?

Rising gun culture in a gunless land.

Why you should write your goals.

Russia and China play the UN like a fiddle.

The 200 greatest songs of the Sixties.

Can nanolevers kill superbugs?

The debtor nation.

Free movies online while they last.

Chavez managed to lower oil production 25% so far.

The baldness gene.

Racism ueber alles.

Almost human.

The statists are on a roll.

Friday Links

What Ayers believes.

The fungus that eats pollutants.

Two questions that mattered.

The colors of the brainbow.

$900b gone today. Dow in worst decline since 1931.

Machine learning for a more beautiful you.

You need the $12,000 bulletproof shirt.

Why energy in Germany comes increasingly from Russia.

When character trumps degrees.

Earthquakes in the Midwest.

Trees growing in Antarctica.

Salmon in Switzerland.

2008 rankings of the top 200 worldwide universities.

When doctors go bad.

How the turtle got its shell.

The right to free universal health care.

Errant black holes.

A mouse-bites-snake story.

Wednesday Links

Britain tries to fuse.

Dubai under the covers.

Has Microsoft lost it?

A car of one's own.

Nature red in tooth and claw.

Woz speaks.

China's fastest growing NGO.

Watching brain cells in live action.

1 in 6 underwater.

G + Y = Bad Idea

The dyslexia gene.

Is Latin on the comeback?

CNN: Obama lied about Ayers.

What it takes to build a topological quantum computer.

Your tax dollars at work?

The real Obama.

Monday Links

Putin reads the West.

Iran's manned space program.

How people really decide.

Sex, violence, glamor, and Islam.

3D printing for the masses.

Russian loves Putin.

Why no medium-sized black holes?

Qinetiq's solar-powered plane flies at night, breaks the records.

US warships bringing baby food.

The face of aggression.

Jihad in China.

Robots riding the thermals.

Wednesday Links

Buff up your T-cells.

Old media caught at their usual double-standard.

How to demo your startup.

Drill and conserve—why is this hard?

Bigger cheaper solar cells.

How to find the work you love.

Witches, goblins, and Nazis.

The brain unmasked.

The ultimate of bridges.

Confessions of a risk manager.

The brain's fairness detector.

Sunday Links

The falling stock of the weak horse.

Waterdrops for all.

Losing the fight over gas prices.

15 sites to cut your operating costs.

Cognition nutrition.

The audacity of narcissism.

The lazy programmer's guide.

Leopard vs. crocodile—caught on camera.

The coming age of government activism.

Cold fusion researcher found to be guilty of scientific misconduct.

Hezbollah's true colors.

From sawdust to biofuel.

France's broken and immoral social model.

Friday Links

Spare us the sob stories.

Goodbye air pollution, hello warming?

Hire your personal farmer.

Leadership and honesty personified.

The coming of big data to the desktop.

Chinese spying is growing in the US.

Erotic furniture.

A record drought in Colorado.

Dissent in Iran.

There's just not enough room on this planet for all three of us.

Is it just hot air?

Have sex, go to jail for six years.

All talk and no substance; all praise where praise is due.

The high priest of peak oil.

Sunday Links

Hawking et al. explain inflation (the cosmic kind).

The Fed allows inflation (the earthly kind).

The 13 best movie robots.

Your brain, the liar.

"Kiss my ass" says Clinton to Obama.

Vacation in a concrete pipe, a jail, or a TV tower!

BillG's top 10 greatest hits and misses.

First steps to Gattaca.

Make your own energy for fun and profit.

Think happy thoughts.

Saturday Links

(Photo H/T: The Daily Telegraph)

He does what politicians do.

Where the ozone goes.

How the other half lives.

The top 10 TED talks.

The latest Google perk.

Volcanoes to the rescue.

When love doesn't conquer all.

Hummingbirds a specialized form of nighthawks?

Christians must pay.

Watch out, bears.

Introducing Jogli.

The swimsuit of the future is now.

Wednesday Links

Can Betz's Law be broken with cleverer technology?

Hitchcock redux.

Incarceration reduces crime.

What is it doing with all that information about us?

Can the French be put back to work?

The sea of trash.

Predicting where you'll go.

The despised President.

Watering down the math standards. Again.

The secret code hidden in the Sistine Chapel.

How to see a parallel universe.

From the "let's not report this" department. 4,000 dead in drug wars in Mexico in two years.

The mystery of glass, solved at last.

Don't check the boxes.

The mystery of the Voorwerp.

Can we trust his promises?

Friday Links

17 mistakes startups makes.

The first picture of a laser pulse. Wow!

Big Brother wins in Sweden.

Curing cancer with the immune system?

The Volt cometh.

Old video games resurrected.

Is REM sleep necessary for intelligence?

Iran on its heels?

Bad boys get more girls.

How wiretapping works.

Russian justice.

The ethics of stealing WiFi.

The Taleban cleared from Kandahar.

Where are the missing Tibetan protesters?

The first hydrogen cars are here.

Canada's thought police.

Wednesday Links

The Flickr founders leave Yahoo.

Guzzle coffee, live longer.

Microsoft the underdog.

China obtains a virtual monopoly on mining rights in Peru.

The 10 highest waterfalls on Earth.

What we can learn from the oil shock.

Do mathematical formulas create reality?

To helmet or not to helmet.

What Bush got right.

Further cutting France's small military.

Electing a dead mayor.

The end of nuclear non-proliferation.

Why they hate school choice.

Chavez rising.

Gay brains look like straight brains of the opposite sex.

The EU hates democracy.

The robotic girlfriend for lonely men.

Jerry, it's not your baby.

Friday Links

Evolution by random mutation observed in the lab.

Some workers are finally more equal than others.

Just which way does antimatter actually swing?

Vote for McBama.

The brain cancer vaccine.

Wealth and debt corrupting America.

A tough feminist considers Hillary.

Transistors able to resist radiation?

The battle for Turkey's soul.

China hacking Congress.

The hero of the right?

Algae oil to the rescue.

Wednesday Links

Things are far better than you think.

Bacteria from the past resist the antibiotics of the future.

Winning the Iraq War.

Confessions of an English gigolo.

More than half the pupils in charter schools?

The beginning of the end?

Bush didn't lie, proven yet again.

Accountability in government still valued.

Better color microscopes than theoretically possible.

Mr. Obama's neighborhood.

Money for nuthin', energy for free.

The secret of his success.

A four-shot vaccine for hay fever?

Boomtimes for the Earth's biomass.

The commander-in-chief litmus test.

Friday Links

When crowds aren't all that wise.

The Kennedy-Krushchev Vienna talks for beginners.

Better, cheaper, faster solar cells.

How the Democrats slide the pork home.

Authentic DNA from ancient Vikings.

The musician's uncertainty principle.

Is it a country or a cause?

Useful built-in Windows commands.

The coming energy rationing.

How to unleash your creativity.

The unraveling of Al-Qaida?

Friday Links

Rebuilding from the ground up.

Phone home with neutrinos, not photons.

"The single most pernicious threat to liberty today is humanity's natural
tendency to misunderstand the statistics of rare events."

20 online language resources.

Darkness at New England noon, explained.

Teach yourself: Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

T. Boone Pickens picks wind.

Half the missing matter in the universe found.

More handouts for all the special interests.

The Big Brother database.

Climate science not quite settled after all.

Sunday Links

The 50 best cult books.

Where's the rice?

Donald Knuth speaks.

29 Soviet posters.

Hardy Heron released.

Microbes making biofuels.

Watching your brain to predict when you will go wrong.

30 electric car startups.

How Gate 14 sees the world.

Nanoparticles heal.

Let 'em have computers and the next thing you know they're blogging.

Wednesday Links

When the Chinese mask slips.

How I tamed my in-box.

Wall Street's crisis.

The Island of the Birds.

Obama's American search for roots.

10 oddball websites.

The liberation of Karmah.

Rodham Clinton under fire.

Even worse than gasoline for the environment?

Top 50 universities ranked by looks.

Is graphene the new silicon?

Obama and Bush are cousins.

More bandwidth through hyper-entangled photons.

Yet another dead reporter.

1968 was all demographics.

Wednesday Links

Cocktail party physics.

Two winnable wars.

Smart bombs clothes.

The phony rape crisis.

Harnessing life to make fuel from CO₂.

The Socialist Paradise as seen through lefty eyes.

Use the Vortex, Luke.

The US won't be Protestant much longer.

Diamonds in the sky.

Hurricanes in the Alps.

Sex tips for the shy young man. (NSFW!)

Nanoparticles to the rescue.

10 beautiful HDR pictures.

The gravity anomaly on space probes.

Military spending going up 18%? It must be the threat from Taiwan.