The Best Magazine Articles Ever - good for months of reading...

Looks like the Moon has an ash hole...

Black on Milk

Meanwhile in Afghanistan, life goes on (as usual)...

Washington, We Have a Problem

Barring catastrophe, China will pass the US as the worlds biggest economy sometime in 2030...

Politics is the new reality TV: "The Explosions Will Not Happen For 10 or 15 or 20 Years"

'This is Iran. Everyone here is acting in a film' - a love story

The Monk's Tale by William Dalrymple

Our daughter isn't a selfish brat; Your son just has't read Altas Shrugged

United States of Adipose: 1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed to compensate for passenger weight gained between 1960 and 2002

What happened to Yahoo?

How Mobile Phones Are Transforming Indian Agriculture

Yasmin Nair on The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice

Song

Talk on dark energy by particle physicist Patricia Burchat

$2/sq. ft. homes - topics in sustainable living...

From 'anchor babies' to 'little terrorists'... Republicans are trying hard...

Poetry

Ahead of Fall, here is a bit on making a meal of acorns...

Meanwhile, the 'baiting the radical Muslim' effort continues at Ground Zero...

If the earth stands still - a thought experiment...

Taking a walk...

Useless lessons...

Happy Birthday, Walden!

But Will It Make You Happy?

How Wall Street screwed the Denver public school system...

My feelings exactly!! Boy am I glad I resigned...

Adversity early in life doesn't necessarily put kids at lifelong disadvantage or Bullied Booby Chicks End Up OK

Trailhead by E O Wilson... (again)

MeFi links to Kanye West's entertaining Twitter feed re-imagined as a series of New Yorker Cartoons

Goldman Sachs is still a phony!!!

As difficult it is to understand, the undertones always reamin - America...

Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter

Let's blame the immigrants again...

Beers = good. Marathon = good. Beer + Marathon = Hmmm...

Unnatural Science - a riff at science blogs. Timely.

Wireless chargers for electric vehicles...

A Normal Man in a Not So Normal World

A Tea Party blog post on Six Flags Muslim day...

Please, rewrite those cuss words...

What should doctors do when they can’t save your life?

Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban

Our beautiful world!!

Math Is No Match for Locust Swarms

Clusterfuck Nation on "What Is It"?

The Beautiful Game of Poker

Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe

A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan

Credit Score Is the Tyrant in Lending

Is there any hope for our overfished oceans?

They called me a child pornographer

Living on composting toilet, well-water, wood fires and solar panels

Fracking Cattle

Eating to Live or Living to Eat?

Jon Stewart and Muslims in Space...

Desire To Ejaculate Motivates Local Christian To Wed

GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content.

Schwarzenegger Signs Landmark Egg Bill

Krugman or Paulson: Who You Gonna Bet On?

Job profile: High-Seas Repo Man Max Hardberger

Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media

After Arizona, it is Edison, NJ...

Germany's 'literature houses' stress reading books over selling them

Hubris watch: Using Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts to Track Economy

Afghanistan at this point in time... (another perspective)....

The Chemistry of Fireworks...

End of the European Siesta?

What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?

Cribs vs. Beds: Parenthood's all-out war

Does a lover really have first claim on breasts?

How Goldman gambled on starvation... What does it say about our system that we can so casually inflict so much pain?

Is Gold a Bubble Yet?

Freecycle

I guess next they will be giving Mr. Bush a peace medal...