Garry Kasparov writes "The Bobby Fisher Defense" ("March 10, 2011") http://is.gd/aRhpGE

Cracking Your Genetic Code (Nova last night, now online), http://t.co/X5H8IB1g (H/T Dr. L. Stephen Coles)

@greatdismal "Christian Group Offended by Starbuck's Logo", http://t.co/fONdYlsc

A psychiatric revolution by Andrew Scull in The Lancet, http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)60532-6/fulltext

web dystopia, .. Jaron Lanier against the Web,  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/What-Turned-Jaron-Lanier-Against-the-Web-183832741.html …

gun ownership plotted against gun death for OECD countries,  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38668/deaths-vs-guns.png … by @mdreid

wealth floods offshore,  http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens?CMP=twt_gu … (2012 1014 in Guardian)

"I sing to my dog every day. If you can't sing to your dog, who can you sing to?" - suzy brown (@suzybrown)

autism, focus/distractability puzzle as "greater ability to process information" (Lavie et al), http://t.co/WCGkRfpA

Charles Murray's book reviewed by F. Roger Devlin (excellent), http://t.co/h4lDXh71 (via @kalimkassam)

@milouness Not saying it ~isn't~ so, but just noting that intelligence and obedience are often conflated. ;)

Question: What would you do if you found out you were going blind? Answer: Read faster. (Paraphrasing Isaac Asimov.)

List-making and social-dominance-orientation (SDO)... http://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/big-question/#comment-1947

Twitter is an exponent to the blogosphere, increasing the rate of growth in science journalism.

Social Learning Strategies (K. Laland 2004 , review of models for) ( @utafrith ) http://lalandlab.st-andrews.ac.uk/pdf/laland_LB_2004.pdf

David Buss, "Conflict between the sexes" (part 1/7, 10 min. video, 2007) http://bit.ly/3Wm8g6 (Via @phylon)

Head size evolution no longer seems verboten to talk about anymore. (Hopeful implications for 20-25% macrocephaly in autisms!)

Antagonistic pleiotropy is the main evolutionary theory for aging. (See Michael Rose's work, for example.)

Social Persuasion Device http://www.technologyreview.com/business/26430/?ref=rss (Interesting, but skips "costly" of costly signalling.)

Personality and performance in military working dogs (Sam Gosling et al) (Abstract only). http://bit.ly/ced4cb