Sunday Links

Global warming mongers embarrassingly debunked.

How much per second?

Is there a genius in all of us?

Chromosome division is different between women and men.

Putin: why do we need so many stinkin' elections?

North Korea gets tough.

Can ancient Chinese medicine yield a cure for AIDS?

Some transitions are more equal than others.

Is China its own worst enemy?

How to hide molecules.

Venezuela down the tubes.

How to bail out GM.

Why ant colonies don't have traffic jams.

Dictatorship in Nicaragua.

Time travel in Google Earth.

Wednesday Links

Russia responds to Obama's election with missiles.

Antitrust kills the Google + Yahoo deal.

The 10 genetic secrets of a cancer revealed.

Obama's scientific policies, in his own words.

British Big Brother wants to monitor and record every single use you make of the internet.

Some electoral map perspective.

The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace.

The 8-armed animals of yesteryear.

Economic crisis mounts in Germany.

Bacteria you can hold in your hand.

The case against humanitarian intervention.

Sunday Links

Who stole the beach?

Running the economy into the ground.

How to buy a mattress.

The audacity of Obama.

The waft of a plant in agony.

Sinbad's time capsule.

Where communism is the new fad.

Logical bacteria.

Was Milan Kundera an informer for the communist secret police?

Camel wrestling in Turkey.

Yahoo's coup de torchon.

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.

Wednesday Links

Wall Street is kaput.

Mickey Mouse must die.

Enough with the economic pessimism nonsense.

A breast cancer vaccine that works?

Business based solely on ramping up risk and leverage doesn't work.

Twilight of the GPU.

Diving deep into the Obama tank.

Search outside the law of the land.

Who runs Russia?

An object unlike any ever seen before.

Sharia courts are operating in Britain.

The first new family of ants since 1923.

How Petraeus did it.

Embracing English after all.

Not clear on the facts.

Do the hinterlanders reject "liberalism" or are they deeply racist?

She's not really top, top drawer, is she?

Wednesday Links

The politics of hate.

Let them eat paint.

Who's weirdest wins.

The party of adults, revitalized.

The penniless father of the iPod.

WIMP or CHAMP?

The Euroweenies are getting the roles confused.

Faster shrinking brains, but more synapses?

Is Kim Jong-Il dead?

What makes a startup succeed?

The vanishing barn.

Life in a country where Sarah Palins are not allowed.

Red state feminism.

World: vote for Obama.

Creating artificial life.

Gordon Brown chooses Obama.

Stevie Wonder had it wrong.

The Democrats need to learn some respect.

Sunday Links

Virus-hewn batteries, in three flavors.

What lurks in the files?

Futurese.

The 5 best password managers.

A cure for deafness?

A cure for diabetes?

A cure for mortality??

How the brain is involved in music.

Why flies are hard to swat.

Why the Hillary supporters are heartsick.

Exploding bacteria for fun and profit.

Pelosi pontificating above her pay grade.

Zoom into concrete.

God bless the Democrats!

8 trillion viruses per square meter.

Friday Links

How North Korea feels.

Repressed hate.

Cosmic dark matter gets a divorce from regular matter.

McCain's golden opportunity.

25 places to read free books online.

Cold War, the sequel?

Lost cities of the Amazon jungle.

The four horsemen of economic apocalypse.

Evolution smiles on war mongers.

Why the US is in deep denial about the deep doo-doo.

Crows never forget a face.

No more beauty contest of the nuns.

How hate campaigns are run.

Introducing Connections.

Putin: Da Bush made me do it!

Wednesday Links

Conway (the inventor of the Game of Life) has proven: even the slightest amount of free will implies inherent indeterminacy in the universe.

Beavering away to kill the queen.

Not your father's cartoon.

Not your father's Kosovo.

Magpies can recognize themselves.

Echoes of Berlin, 1936.

How to teach an old rat new tricks.

The future of elections.

Rebellion of the slave ants.

What to do in the Twin Cities when you're dead.

Charging the cartoonists.

Why gay genes exist.

Friday Links

The virus that gets sick.

A tyranny of true believers.

14 million year old tropical plants—in Antarctica.

The Orwell olympics.

Red ink in the anti-business states.

When Google throws the switch.

What's the matter with Pakistan?

The ability to stand apart.

Here comes the eyeball camera.

Can colossal carbon tubes best nanotubes?

Vague but sinister.

Wednesday Links

Have you bought your Waboba yet?

Eloquence fatigue.

Finding color in fossils.

Home really alone.

Maybe Roger Simon is no longer alone?

The world's smallest snake.

Neuroeconomics.

Snoozing makes you smarter. Has anybody looked into drinking beer?

Stuff your brain.

The Springfield years and what they say.

Does quantity trump quality?

The Google of criminal searches.

SpaceX finds that space is still hard.

The dawn of artificial photosynthesis?

Extinct in 12 years?

Saving the crumbling Timbuktu manuscripts.

Are men neutered?

Tuesday Links

By any other name....

Powell is the ideal vice presidential candidate, no matter how you slice it.

The most extreme life forms.

Dreams from his Grandmother.

The value of working out.

Crumbling infrastructure?

Submarines for the drug cartels.

Leaving the Goog for the Soft.

Free chess endgame tables.

A universal sentence structure?

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

Why startups fail.

Leaders, not whiners.

The solution to poverty is—getting rich.

Lead exposure correlates with criminal behavior.

Using Python to work with the operating system.

Pajamas in Shanghai.

The short history of nerds, from Seuss to Obama.

The false narrative of American defeat.

The free trade paradox.

Diving for treasure with AUVs.

5 essential rules for negotiation.

Wishful thinking about oil.

Introducing Muxfind.

Cells beneath the water (water), cells beneath the mud.

A ray of housing hope?

An honor killing in Germany.

The Messiah of the red-diaper socialists?

How DNA Works

Friday Links

China's scary nationalistic generation.

Combat vs. composure.

Eyes bigger than a soccer ball.

75 skills for men.

The unhappiest millionaire.

Smarter isn't always better.

50 games in one semester.

Flying saucers with plasma propulsion.

The psycho ex-girlfriend of the Democratic party.

35 free languages.

Friday Links

All the streets.

When nerds go bad.

The longest sea-spanning bridge in the world.

Software to make you smarter.

The truth about tech startups.

Software to create DIVX and XVID.

Good writers write, great ones reuse.

Seeing the magnetic field.

Get some sleep.

The man in a glacier finds his modern descendants.

Uranium is no longer the heaviest.

Enforce the law and they won't come.

Causality.

From Russia, with love.

You can't kick this robot around any more.

Wednesday Links

Top scientists admit to illegal drug abuse for cognitive enhancement.

Online tools for getting organized.

The new national pastime.

Glamorous stewardesses of yesteryear.

The secret cyberattacks on the US military step up in pace.

Biomimetics.

The annual botnet census.

Introducing Thinking Rock.

Aluminum nanonclusters for high-temperature superconductivity.

Top 10 banned films of the Twentieth Century.

The mysterious case of the deadly sound waves.

The new masters of the universe.

Sunday Links

Mark Steyn tears Obama a new one.

The oldest known asteroids.

More slaves than ever before.

Some very useful Windows utilities.

The atheist delusion.

Denver in detail (go to the Coors stadium outfield).

The gallery of arctic light.

Thoroughly modern do-gooders.

The best-conceived biological theories of brilliant men and mice oft go awry.

Time for a nuclear Syria too?

Friday Links

How do ants know what to do?

Arrested for flirting.

Introducing Dilandau.

Anatomy of an illusion.

Advice to young writers about money.

Starting a new project with Django.

Obsolete skills.

The graphics programming black book.

What Europeans think of each other.

The Newspond.

Telling when you should be showing.

Twenty years of movie receipts (this one's worth checking out merely to change your point of view on what a chart can be).