An Australian Insect Sampler Scientific American.
Bald eagles rebound from near extinction Oregonian.
Shiller Defends Goldman Sachs, Praises Finance Bloomberg. Word of the day: Aptronym.
Whistleblower Gets Sham Justice From Wall Street Court Bloomberg.
Treasury issues subpoenas in investigation into funding for pro-MEK lobby campaign Yahoo Envoy. Ed Rendell, Tom Ridge, Louis Freeh, Gen. Hugh Shelton.
‘Passports of Chevron execs held in Brazil‘ FT.
Credit default swaps are insurance products. It’s time we regulated them as such Big Picture (furzy mouse).
Want hard-working and happy staff? Ban their smartphones! Daily Mail (MS).
Health chief warns: age of safe medicine is ending Independent (MS).
Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians Truthout (MS).
As natural gas production grows, questions arise about methane leaks McClatchy.
SkyTruth Alerts delivers real-time updates about environmental incidents in your back yard.
The REAL Cause of the Global Obesity Epidemic Washington’s Blog.
Groups Say They Won’t Stop Feeding Homeless in City Parks NBC Philadelphia.
Versailles, the Would-Be Biggest House in America Business Week. With handy comparison chart.
Occupying Democracy: A Moral Revolution for Social Justice Truthout.
How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules New Yorker.
Autarchy in the UK: Forced labor; selling off the roads; gutting NHS. All Guardian (JL).
Learning from campaigns, writing on issues Angry Bear. Lakoff’s schtick, but a true schtick.
Obama’s evolution: Behind the failed ‘grand bargain’ on the debt WaPo. Yes, Obama really was willing to raise Medicare eligibility.
‘All Odds Aside, G.O.P. Girding for Floor Fight‘ Times.
Romney: Santorum an ‘economic lightweight’ Chicago Tribune.
Santorum On Seamus The Dog: ‘Issues Of Character Are Important In This Election’ HuffPo.
Santorum: Obama administration is soft on pornography WaPo.
Literary porn saved, as Paypal abandons effort to censor smutty books Independent.
China’s path to reform Guardian.
Enter the dragon: China’s PM calls for reform Sidney Morning Herald.
‘The ghost of Mao haunts China’s succession plans‘ FT.
‘All change after Bo’s downfall‘ South China Morning Post.
How demolishing freeways is reviving American cities Grist.
Airbus expects years of grappling with A380 cracks Reuters.
The Kennedy assassination: Did Castro know in advance? Miami Herald book review. “In a brutal irony, the CIA was delivering to Cubela a poison-tipped ballpoint pen with which to kill Castro at the very moment that Oswald was shooting Kennedy.
Partial equilibrium intuitions about choice Interfluidity. Choice does not always improve welfare. Interesting!
Antidote du jour: Scott’s Arnold:
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