POLITICS: Perry's supernatural buddy (AKA God) a dud

Rick Perry's Unanswered Prayers - NYTimes.com

POLLS: WAPO Political effectiveness

Washington Post Poll (washingtonpost.com)

PSYCHOLOGY; Political ideology and Negativism

The Ideology of No: Scientific American

OPED: A Paralyzed Obsma

The most powerful man on Earth? - The Washington Post

ECONOMY: Slouching Toward a Double-Dip, for No Good Reason - NewsTrust.net

Slouching Toward a Double-Dip, for No Good Reason - NewsTrust.net

HISTORY: Design and building of USS Monitor, 1861

A Brief Dry Spell for the U.S.S. Monitor’s Ironclad Turret - NYTimes.com

FECONOMY: Nowhere to go, but down

Frozen by Uncertainty, Economic Action Stalls - NYTimes.com

EDUCATION: OPED - Need for review and upgrade

Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade - NYTimes.com

OPED: America is ecconomic road kill

America’s Economic Crisis Has Political Roots - NYTimes.com

POLITICS: Another Republican nut case ready to be a fool!

Texas Gov. Rick Perry to host major prayer event in Houston - The Washington Post

ECONOMY: Prediction of "New," 2012 Recession

New recession begins next year, Shilling says - Howard Gold's No-Nonsense Investing - MarketWatch

ECONOMY: Krugman on Obama Surrender

The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.com

ECONOMY: Signs of 'Doble Dip' ecession

Meredith Whitney: 'Increasing Signs' Of A Possible Double-Dip Recession

OPED: The Tea Party’s War on America - NYTimes.com

The Tea Party’s War on America - NYTimes.com

SOCIETY: 8 ways to Quell Resistance in the young

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance - NewsTrust.net

PHYSICS: Space is curved - Thanks Einstein!

What Do You Mean, the Universe Is Flat? Part II: In Which We Actually Answer the Question | Degrees of Freedom, Scientific American Blog Network

TECHNOLOGY: Progress slowing - End of Moore's Law coming?

Progress hits snag with transistors overheating, as ever more transistors are added to chips

EDUCATION: PA School cheating

In Pennsylvania, Suspicious Erasing on State Exams at 89 Schools - NYTimes.com

DEBT CEILING: Good for country or good for Obama?

Did Obama capitulate — or is this a cagey move? - NewsTrust.net

EDUCATION: Can reading be changed from, "necessary evil," to pure pleasure?

We Can't Teach Students to Love Reading - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

CRIME: Faked IDs beat inspection

Latest counterfeit IDs are so good they’re dangerous - The Washington Post

DEBT CEILING: wHAT IF? 5 DAYS AND COUNTING!

The US debt ceiling: What if the talks fail? | The Economist

GOVERNING: Unstoppable Force (Obama) Meets Immovable Object (Republicans)

Debt talks show breakdown in governing - The Washington Post

DEBT CEILING 11 Days and Counting

Lawmakers Renew Push to Reach Deal on Cutting Deficit - NYTimes.com

ECONOMY: Debt Explained

Five truths about the deficit and the national debt - The Washington Post

COGNITION: Internet replacing memory pro/con

Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?: Scientific American

NEUROSCIENCE: Debt Crisis, Distrust, and game theory

The Neuroscience of the Debt Debate, or Why Cooperation Takes a Backseat to Mistrust: Scientific American

POLITICS: Bachmann Husband gay, say rumors

Bachmann Rumor Grows Louder

ECONOMY: The Consumer spending bust

How the Bursting of the Consumer Bubble Continues to Hold the Economy Back - NYTimes.com

CRIME: Bath Salts - a new, dangerous drug

An Alarming New Stimulant, Sold Legally in Many States - NYTimes.com

UNEMPLOYMENT: Silicon Valley v. The rest of America

A Tale Of Two Countries: The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America - The Washington Post

ECONOMY: The silent credit killers

Little-known firms tracking data used in credit scores - The Washington Post

PSYHOLOGY: 18 Attributes of Liars

Bering in Mind: 18 Attributes of Highly Effective Liars

DEBT CEILING: What a total mess!

With no debt deal, Obama would face tough choices Aug. 3 about what bills to pay - The Washington Post

ROBOTICS: Problems with AI & Perception

In Robotics, Human-Style Perception and Motion Are Elusive - NYTimes.com

FORENSICS: 18 elements composing the effective liar

Good Liars 18 factors going into the development of the effective liar

UNEMPLOYMENT: Major slowing in hiring, with rate rising

Unemployment rose to 9.2 percent in June as US employers add only 18,000 jobs - The Washington Post

EMPLOYMENT: Recruitment - Gaming the System

Recruiting Software: 10 Ways Job Seekers Can Beat the System CIO.com

EDUCATION: Atlanta school cheating scandal

Systematic Cheating Is Found in Atlanta’s School System - NYTimes.com

EDUCATION: Atlanta school cheating scandal

Systematic Cheating Is Found in Atlanta’s School System - NYTimes.com

EVOLUTION: Fairness/Reciprocity heritable attributes?

Tendency Toward Egalitarianism May Have Helped Humans Survive - NYTimes.com

ECONOMY: Who loses when debt ceiling remains unchanged?

What failure to raise the debt ceiling will look like - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

SCOTUS: Teaches "Big Guys," how to screw "Little Guys"

The Supreme Court shows corporate America how to screw over its customers and employees without breaking the law. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine

MATH: Modeling predicts terrorist attack frequency

Terrorists Get Better with Practice: New Mathematical Model Shows How Fatal Attacks Escalate Over Time: Scientific American

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

ECONOMY: Numbers Grim, Unemployment unchanged, Housing down

The Numbers Are Grim - NYTimes.com

PRIVACY: Implications of "Nothing-to-Hide

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

UNEMPLOYMENT: Over/Under-qualified college grads

Why Can't Coellge Grads Find Better Jobs? - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com

SOCIAL SECURITY: Retirement strategies

How to hike your Social Security benefits Robert Powell - MarketWatch

INTERNET: what deoes Twitter do to our brains?

The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com

EDUCATION: Value of College - Demographicsc

The Value of College | Pew Social & Demographic Trends

EDUCATION: Value of College?

Is College Worth It? - Pew Research Center

NEUROSCIENCE: Exploring Optogenetic brain control

In Optogenetics, Buttons for Neural Switchboards - NYTimes.com

EDUCATION: Limited quality of undergraduate education

The Poor Quality of an Undergraduate Education - NYTimes.com

EDUCATION: Higher education fraud demands regulation

Education is the last thing on their minds

EDUCATION: Movement to privately operated, publicly financed schools

Reading, ’Riting and Revenues - NYTimes.com

UNEMPLOYMENT: 35% HSG ONLY NOT WORKING

The Missing Fifth - NYTimes.com

NEUROSCIENCE: First reports stick even after retraction

Why the truth will out but doesn’t sink in « Mind Hacks

BIOMETRICS: Handheld devices increase speed and accuracy

How Biometrics Helped to Identify the Master Terrorist: Scientific American

ECONOMY: Slowiing evident in a number of areas

The Economy Slows - NYTimes.com

GENETICS: Epigenetics -When environment changes gene expression

Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny

BOOK REVIEW 'The Genius in All of Us,' by David Shenk -

Book Review - 'The Genius in All of Us,' by David Shenk - Review - NYTimes.com

NEUROSCIENCE: Experience or advice?

Reliance on personal experience vs. advice come from two different parts of the brain and genetically derived.

EDUCATION: This is teaching?

Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years!

POTUS: Budget and debt speech

Obama delivers speech on the national debt | In Obama's Words | The Washington Post

EDUCATION: ONLINE COURSES Quality or teaching on the cheap?

Rise in Online Classes Flares Debate About Quality - NYTimes.com

FED RESERVE: Shadow Money - Crime by the Fed

America's Shadow Budget - NewsTrust.net

COMPUTING: Decoding overlapping speech

Audio Alchemy: Getting Computers to Understand Overlapping Speech: Scientific American

PSYCHOLOGY: Developing Self-Control

How Self-Control Works: Scientific American

FACEBOOK LAWSUIT: Paul Ceglia Files New Evidence In Claim He Owns 50% Of The Company

FACEBOOK LAWSUIT: Paul Ceglia Files New Evidence In Claim He Owns 50% Of The Company

This will be great fun to watch as one scam artist goes after another! Ex felon accuses Zukerberg of fraud, and might just get himself billions as a result.

NEUROSCIENCE: Brain structure and ideology

Political Views Tied to Brain Structure - ABC News

BUDGET: Critique of Ryan Plan

Why Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan is so flawed - The Washington Post

RESEARCH: Demographics by Pew

New Facts About Families - Pew Research Center

PSYCHOLOGY: rEADING EMOTIO WIT FACIAL EXPRESSION

DataFace: Facial Expressions, Emotion Expressions, Nonverbal Communication

ECONOMY: The Ryan Plan

Wonkbook: Never give up! Never surrender! - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

ECONOMY: Graphic analysis of current budget

From Reagan to Obama: 30 years of spending priorities / Federal budget 2012 - The Washington Post