A Better Mousetrap for the Age of Rats by Glen Smith: “American democracy is a better mousetrap. Unfortunately, it was born in the Age of the Rat.”
A pair of Bioethics posts linked to by John Hawks: “Sure, they said, people might like to live longer. But wouldn’t that be a bad thing? The world is too crowded as it is. I’m thinking that death was far beyond the horizon of their bright young minds.”
New 3-D map of interstellar gas around the sun in Wired: Who let loose?
The paradoxes of the Endangered Species Act (and how to fix them) at Conservation Maven: three paradoxen – the train wreck, the jeopardy, and the maximum mitigation.
