The Weekest Links 14 Dec 2011

http://deejaybird.tumblr.com/post/13855315621/uhura-comes-from-the-swahili-word-uhuru-meaning

http://dresdencodak.com/

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1070442--of-all-the-lonely-people-the-loneliest#.Tt4411FfVsk.twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

http://whale.fm/

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27396/#.TuDy_EMc-js.twitter

http://io9.com/5866306/

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/thinking-about-thinking/

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27402/#.TuI6UBgOODs.twitter

http://www.woostercollective.com/#grid-view

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/12/spelltower-on-ios-shows-the-power-of-creating-games-in-genres-you-hate.ars

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/hitchens-201201

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/12/09/143398685/gop-objects-to-millionaires-surtax-millionaires-we-found-not-so-much

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/12/09/nprShouldGetAPulitzerForTh.html

http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2011/12/09/a-critic-of-science-journalism-dons-a-masquerade/

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/98266/gingrich-welfare-employment

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ancient-beds-designed-to-ward-off-insects-add-to-evidence-modern-man-evolved-in-africa/2011/12/08/gIQAjG0bfO_story.html?hpid=z4&tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/09/empathic-rats-spring-each-other-from-jail/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdnl3eaPspQ

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/09/evolution-and-miss-usa-science-role-models-explain-why-evolutionary-biology-is-so-important-video/

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/12/vocal-fry-creeping-into-us-speec.html

http://io9.com/5864577/scientists-still-puzzled-by-a-fractal-discovered-500-years-ago

http://gigaom.com/2011/12/07/if-we-are-all-journalists-should-we-all-be-protected/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2011/12/09/energy-source-transitions-over-time-what-comes-next/

http://laughingsquid.com/tech-company-war-propaganda-posters/

http://www.theawl.com/slug/the-moon

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/12/herman-holleriths-tabulating-machine/

http://scriptureofscience.blogspot.com/2011/12/center-of-every-snowflake-is-bacterium.html?spref=tw

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/12/29/an-interview-with-david-attenborough/#cobra

http://environment.yale.edu/climate/news/the-climate-note-treatysupport/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/image-of-the-week/2011/12/12/straight-jacketed-chimp/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/12/a-long-walk-to-land/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122912607004203123.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet

http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2011/08/mirror-neurons-or-whats-matter-with.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228424.800-ai-to-predict-suns-next-attack-on-earth.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/12/meet-the-agta-a-tribe-where-a-quarter-of-men-have-been-attacked-by-giant-snakes/

http://laughingsquid.com/pranksters-turn-rotating-billboard-into-a-merry-go-round/

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/urban-scientist/2011/12/13/if-i-were-a-wealthy-white-suburbanite/

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-386