Wednesday Links

Why people are lucky. (H/T: Jeff)

An Estonian spy passes NATO's cybersecrets to the Russians.

A vaccine for skin cancer?

Let it go to a happier home.

The body's secret network of tunneling nanotubes.

MIT open courseware—in video.

Controlling your time.

A new generator that can boost wind turbine power output by 50%.

Botnet control passed to Russia.

Success begets success.

The case against Hillary.

2 million dead?—oops! Sorry!

Podcasts from Oxford.

The leader of the year.

Godzilla meets King Kong: both dead.

US physicist sends secret military information to China.

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

The persistent and dangerous illusion of political unity.

President Nanobama.

The demise of the Republican party?

Ruby + Lisp in one slick package.

Obama and the KGB.

Are sharks going extinct?

The opportunities of Taiwan.

The home of the apple.

Obama and the Founding Fathers.

Evolving white blood cells to kill HIV.

Introducing BeatMyPrice.

Opportunities sadly missed.

The robot guitar tunes itself.

Close the border!

Rethinking the idea of the gene.

Just how do you lose a whole pyramid?

Friday Links

Download the latest version of World Wide Telescope—totally awesome.

The US must update its nuclear deterrent.

Attractive fathers do not attractive sons make.

The court limits business method patents.

What kids are up to these days.

The candidate of decline.

Introducing Hushie.

The paradox of an unattractive Russia.

Is malaria winning the race?

Contrary to propaganda, McCain is not more of the same.

Why not just let them marry?

More scary—but hidden—Obama connections.

The persecution of Christians continues in Iraq.

The persecution of Christians continues in India.

Is the Iceman from a different branch of humanity?

Is the Newest Deal bad for the market?

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?

Friday Links

On moral philosophers and child murderesses.

A complete collapse in the ethics market.

Snow on Mars.

Exiled to Siberia for his rap song.

Martian fossils?

No honor among thieves with machine guns.

Dragonfly robots for Mars.

Africom goes operational.

You think the CIA is a bunch of clowns? Check out these guys.

Making coasts invisible to tsunamis.

80 of the best web illustrator resources.

Bleeding without being cut.

Addicted to debt.

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.

Sunday Links

Get a plasma drive engine.

The triumph of the totalitarian will.

Ideas are just a multiplier.

Chain lightnin'.

86 wives.

Is schizophrenia a byproduct of brain evolution?

Big-time pandering.

What men have to do for love.

Paternalism is back.

Why you buy the rug.

The best man in Washington still going strong.

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.

Thursday Links

The future has a kill switch.

Why McCain is a hero.

How not to motivate people.

The medieval supernova—yesterday and today.

How to fix the schools.

Hitchens gets waterboarded.

Stem cells from any tissue.

50 songs to make you dance.

Pining for the Great Depression.

On a cow's head today....

The new key to elections.

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

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

Stopping train-hanging scalawags.

Free unabridged books online.

Two time zones to save power.

Moon rings.

More children please.

What I learned in jail.

The case for whaling.

13.73 billion years ago.

Live freer or die.

Not just a girl from Kansas (and Mercer Island).

The myth of the transparent society.

Viruses vs. brain tumors.

Weekly Links

The real invisibility cloak.

Did Radiohead's gamble pay off?

A microreactor in every garage.

Engineered blood vessels.

Buying your own private island.

A supernova in empty space.

Making money when music is free.

Elmore Leonard explains how to write.

Extending battery life by a factor of 10 with nanowires.

Instant machine translation in chat.

Don't shine a green laser into the cockpit of a helicopter.

Tunguska was a small asteroid.

The Lakotas are leaving.

The mystery of traffic jams solved.

Friday Links

The uncrowned king of heroin.


Talkin' 'bout the new generation. (H/T Colin)

Bomb-proofing your clothes with Zetix.

Is CompUSA no more?

The Long March into Africa.

Introducing the MemeBox.


The Nostradamus of the 21st century?

Tuberculosis from half a million years ago.

Roughing up the BBC.

Solar cheaper than coal?

No more Miss Tibet.

Weekly Links

Biofuels are a "crime against humanity".

Labor shortages in China.

Meet The Shadow.

Big German Brother?

Windows Home Server reviewed.

Pirate-hunting robots on the seas.

The world's tiniest radio.

Deathrays made of light—for viruses.

Monkey brains are hardwired for counting.

Food prices are rising.

Every robot lost the race.

Mining humans to circumvent captchas.

In Britain, they came first to track the animals, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an animal; And then they came to track the little children, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a little child; And then they came to track the students....

9 staircases.

87 rattlesnakes.

Friday Links

Why cold weather really does spread the flu.

25 skills every man should know.

Say you're sorry, make more money.

Is this why wild monkeys are not allowed in the Northern Virginia and Maryland woods?

Common repairs made easy.

The story of Baikonur.

Undercover in the Apple Store.

How quantum cryptology works.

Character—not technology—is the solution to crime.

Or did the Clean Air Act lower crime?

The Nigerian child sex trade smashed.

Is OPEC the new Fed?

Friday Links

France's secret war in Africa.

Change your DNA.

How to iron a button-down shirt.

The secrets of intangible wealth.

Building a modern computer in 12 easy lessons.

The hottest iPod yet.

Wild crows using tools.

Teach yourself the theory of computation.

Has the cause of type II diabetes been found?

China is blocking RSS feeds.

The new plastic is light, transparent, and strong as steel.

Sunday Links

40,000 masterworks in the public domain. The site's in German, but it's mostly a list of names, good in any language.

The interactive map of WWI.

Three nonverbal keys to negotiating.

A spinning singularity might become naked.

Is it 1927 in China?

Cover yourself at work through notes.

Was acid the secret behind the double helix?

Inkless printing at less than 2 nanometers.

Ridley Scott speaks.

Have embryonic planets been found?

What it actually costs to found a startup.

The purpose of the appendix.

Sunday Links

Bacteria like space.

The Minneapolis of southeast Asia.

Ambisinistral's and Skookumchuk's piracy and maritime links.

The end of the space station before it even begins?

How they deal with protesters in Burma.

The 50 best stocks in the world.

Where vehicles are left to die.

Western civilization continues to poke its head into every corner.

Oliver Sacks speaks.

A maglev railway outside of China.

What US cities used to look like.

Moebius transformations revealed.