Thursday Links

The housing fiasco that Uncle Sam built.

Can the French go back to work?

Honor killings in Georgia?

Watermelon in lieu of Viagra?

Oxytocin and autism.

Economic chicken littles still wrong.

Normalizing your database isn't normal.

A tale of two flip-floppers.

The world's fastest train.

A promising new HIV drug.

Eventually all Europeans will hate Obama too.

Sunday Links

We're not leaving.

China and Russia protect Mugabe.

How the brain changes coordinates.

Phil Gramm is right.

Autism and the miswired brain.

The $5 trillion mess.

Half a million years of chat.

The ruthlessly imposed illusion of calm in Tibet.

The best movie endings ever.

Radical Islam is not compatible with French values.

Artificial photosynthesis through nanotubes?

China is fueling war in Darfur.

The great biofuels con.