NEUROSCIENCE: The ghost in our brains

Can Neuroscience explain our obsession with the paranormal?

UNEMPLOYMENT: A Viable Jobs Plan

Payroll Tax Holiday Could Help Create Jobs - Economic View - NYTimes.com

BOOKS: Friendly psychopaths

Sympathetic Serial Killers - NYTimes.com

ROBOTICS: Carnegie-Mellon, leader in robot development

Carnegie Mellon institute in Pa. designs robots for households, military and industry - The Washington Post

MILITARY: Exponential growth of Drone technology

Microdrones, Some as Small as Bugs, Are Poised to Alter War - NYTimes.com

ECONOMY; Primary care model ends medical hyperinflation

The Most Important Organization In Silicon Valley That No One Has Heard About | LinkedIn

INTERNET: The growing war with Hackers

Deploying New Tools to Stop the Hackers - NYTimes.com

PRIVACY: Has 1984 been here since 1984?

The Week in Privacy (Just Between You and Me) - NYTimes.com

NEUROSCIENCE: Internet addiction rewires the brain

High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain?: Scientific American

EDUCATION: "Peace Officers," a threat to school kids

OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'You Can No Longer Think of Yourselves as Peace Officers': Militarizing 'Lockdown High'

NEUROSCIENCE: Predicting psychopathy from brain attributes

Can This Man Predict Whether Your Child Will Become a Criminal? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

EDUCATION: Education of State Legislators

Degrees in the Statehouse: National Overview - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education

ATHEISTS: Avoid these states!

10 Scariest States to Be An Atheist | Belief | AlterNet

ATHEISTS: Atheist kid ostracized by community & parents

High School Student Stands Up Against Prayer at Public School and Is Ostracized, Demeaned and Threatened | Belief | AlterNet

PSYCHOLOGY; All about sexting

Adult Sexting: Over 27? Watch Out. - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

BUDGET: Debt ceiling graphics

Showdown over the debt ceiling - The Washington Post

NEUROSCIENCE: Another job for the ACC

Deciding To Stay Or Go Is A Deep-Seated Brain Function

INTERNET: New IP Address prorocol

Will the Internet Stop on June 8?: Scientific American

POLITICS: Weiner admits sending self lewd photos

Anthony Weiner admits he sent photo, but won’t resign - The Fix - The Washington Post

POLITICS: Palin Fumble again and again and...

Sarah Palin collects a bushel of Pinocchios on her bus tour - NewsTrust.net

EDUCATION: Free academic books online

Free for All: National Academies Press Puts All 4,000 Books Online at No Charge - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

EDUCATION: The stupidity of zero tolerqnce!a

More schools are rethinking zero tolerance - The Washington Post

ECONOMY: Recovery slowing to 2%

U.S. economy: Manufacturing slowdown the latest sign the recovery is faltering - The Washington Post

.NEUROSCIENCE: Religion & the mysterious shrunken Hippocampus

Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain: Scientific American

MILITARY:: Use of Cyber-War codified

List of cyber-weapons developed by Pentagon to streamline computer warfare - The Washington Post