In order to avoid doing something about pollutants, the White House simply refused to open the email from the EPA.  (via The Scientific Activist)

I really hope we don’t invade Iran. (via pebkac thoughts)

You know how US soldiers were tortured by the Chinese during the Korean War?  Well, we’re using the same techniques on Iraqis. (via Gadfly)

The “good old days” weren’t good.

Beautiful Darren Waterson paintings at Le territoire des sens.

Yasumasa Morimura dressed like famous female movie stars and photographed himself.  (via Manolo’s Shoe Blog)

Reminder from Angry Astronomer: prayer is bullshit.

Congress still pushes for abstinence only funding.  The ACLU’s Caroline Fredrickson says it best:

It’s hard to imagine a good reason why, in these tight economic times, Congress would intentionally flush taxpayer dollars down the drain by spending them on disproven, ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. We are floored that they continue to ignore study after study, and the consensus of the public health community, all concluding that these programs censor vital health care information, teach gender stereotypes, discriminate against lesbian and gay teens, and in some cases promote religion in the classroom in violation of the Constitution.” (via Feministing)

Pharyngula links us to abiogenesis in a nutshell.