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Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review – http://bit.ly/9QV56Q

RT @SImoleonSense: ‘Counterfactual’ Thinkers Are More Motivated and Analytical http://bit.ly/9E5NZQ

Thankfully, you don’t need to be a mad scientist to master Quantum Jumping – http://bit.ly/dvbVGQ

Raid on former Bristol bank nets £1m of cannabis – http://bit.ly/dvrYHg

How Long Till Human-Level AI? http://bit.ly/bPsrog

President Einstein – http://bit.ly/cVNGAB

Just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy followed by John Christopher's 1965 classic A wrinkle in the skin. Very similar. Preferred the latter.

Bring on this week's post-apocalyptic novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller.

Alastair Reynolds moderates panel discussion on: The Singularity: An Appraisal – panel includes Charles Stross. http://bit.ly/bsbpC1

And while I'm at it. Here's Chapter One of Alistair's new novel, Terminal World, which is due out in March. http://bit.ly/d9xQSd

From shame to game in one hundred years: An economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatisation http://bit.ly/aeNAOZ

Tesco Squat: A Short Film from inside Former Jesters – http://bit.ly/aU6h9a

The average cost of raising a child to the age of 21 has crashed through the £200,000 barrier for the first time http://bit.ly/9SRZUT

Mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. This year, it will create 1,200 exabytes.http://bit.ly/cUF2Rp

@Birdemic – Is This the Worst Movie Ever Made? http://bit.ly/ctmqWr

Where do atheists come from? http://bit.ly/aaGFSH

Video: Richard Feynman on doubt,uncertainty and religion – http://bit.ly/d8qUDb

Scary stuff: "Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason" http://bit.ly/bCBIuI

Scientists believe there could be 10,000 civilisations in our galaxy and millions are being spent trying to find them http://bit.ly/bxY8ut

@SSRN Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus – http://bit.ly/ar4LKV

Great Spot from my brother Howard over on the Bettany Blog: Dante Bucci – Fanfare (Hang Drum) – http://bit.ly/cwI9cR

The life and death of online communities: http://bit.ly/bKSbKA

Who Am I Without You? The Influence of Romantic Breakup on the Self-Concept (pdf) – http://bit.ly/daQ2kl

GenY workers want their cake and to eat it too – http://bit.ly/9OrWsn

This vid made me chuckle."The Front Fell Off" http://bit.ly/bRbKUh

A power plant to prove that carbon capture technology works / doesn't work – http://bit.ly/d8O69X

RT @jamesroutley: @eOfficeBristol Meet-up for tech founders and wannabe tech founders in Bristol, Bath, Wales and South West: http://3.l …

Burma Orphanage Project – Team Liverpool Half-Marathon http://bit.ly/6P017y

Videos: Warren Buffett on Gambling (http://bit.ly/dCjsL1) / As Axel Rose (http://bit.ly/biuitw)

Warp Drives http://bit.ly/9Yy1y6 – wicked.

Grigoriy Perelman awarded the Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture – http://bit.ly/9aLp6E

Bristol's Tesco challenge: can you shop in all 17 stores in one hour? http://bit.ly/dbmLOA

New research shows that people with power feel just fine when lying – http://bit.ly/cFLuNg

The photograph that defined the class divide – http://bit.ly/da7FtD

The food activist and economist who wishes to state for the record that he is not the messiah – http://bit.ly/9oCpaT

Wired Article on Google Algorithm. Pretty Cool. http://bit.ly/9ttNQr

Why Nuclear isn't the Energy Solution – A presentation by my friend Derek Abbott. http://bit.ly/bmQ0T3

Happiness. It's not about wealth but status – http://bit.ly/cTpfa7

Love, sex and the male brain – http://bit.ly/bCrIr8

101 Habits of Highly Effective Writers http://bit.ly/c3Mu0O

The Times could have found another author for this article: Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals http://bit.ly/bQrqcU

My Brother-in-law, Justin, plays Little Wing by Jimmy Hendrix – really well. http://bit.ly/cC0T9s

Man Versus Afghanistan – http://bit.ly/bbkpCV

Searched Twitter for Moscow since:2010-03-29 near:Moscow within:5mi: http://tinyurl.com/ylbzegm

I cannot tell you how much this annoys me. http://bit.ly/aXj6i6 – "Bonus: A free set of Tibetan Meditation Orbs" doesn't redeem it.

5 Minutes With one of my heroes, AC Grayling http://bit.ly/cXpKpm

BBC News – General Election 2010 website. http://bit.ly/cq5gpF

Video – George Lucas ruins the Lightsabre and the Force all in once scene. http://bit.ly/d0zlfX

Reverend Barbie – http://bit.ly/9a9f80

Environmental Economics 101 – http://nyti.ms/cshMND

Astronomers have underestimated the number of galaxies in parts of the Universe by as much as 90% http://bit.ly/bVKDGa

Is Our Universe in a Wormhole? http://bit.ly/aQw7cM

Study Sheds Light on What Makes People Shy – http://bit.ly/bUZfWa

RT @MrVikas – The most serious attempt to date to set out how to build an ethical robot – http://bit.ly/cMRBAk

Humanity is ageing fast, and the implications may overwhelm other factors shaping the species over the coming decades http://bit.ly/cV7RZR

The founder of WikiLeaks lives a secret life in the shadow of those who blow the whistle http://bit.ly/bOkXxS

A radical explanation for a conundrum about extraterrestrial life, and what it means for the future of humanity. http://bit.ly/bBJBPn

William Gibson (@GreatDismal): I’m a Natural-Born Twitter Machine – http://bit.ly/aR5S0R

Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke: Applied Math & Scientific Computing in the Visual Effects Industry http://bit.ly/cfOyqT

Asok, maybe you could try homeopathy to fix your botched nose job? http://bit.ly/cZ2363

"If a poor country is one degree Celsius warmer in a given year, its exports are lower, by as much as 5.7%." http://bit.ly/cLU4AJ

Bristol Twitter directory – http://bit.ly/bDNFbI

@MoneyScience @TimHarford Interactive UK deficit-buster: Choose your cuts! http://bit.ly/adXzI3

There is a strong link between the number of books a family owns and how well their child performs in maths tests http://bit.ly/cPOvKH

12 Pervasive Myths About Starting a Small Business http://bit.ly/cwbo1s

3D printing is cool. http://bit.ly/cIN5ac

Fantastically exciting news! @MoneyScience attracts Venture Investment from Thematic Capital Partners – http://bit.ly/aIBtsx

You can't be happer than your wife:happiness gaps and divorce http://bit.ly/cVvMHg

Decisions by coin toss: Inappropriate but fair (pdf) http://bit.ly/dnc9nT

Dilbert and the one Musketeer – http://bit.ly/dtSJgI

Oil Slickonomics – http://bit.ly/dAktGr

Oil Slickonomics (Part II) http://bit.ly/9OdzRg

Brilliant. If a dodgy fact fits with your prejudices, a correction only reinforces it. http://bit.ly/afpNTH

Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea – http://bit.ly/aupwZV

Images – Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico http://bit.ly/bQGIDb

Video – David Cameron in conversation with Nassim Taleb – http://bit.ly/9tNORd

Think Mandelbrot: A Finer Formula for Assessing Risk http://bit.ly/c5tN3Y

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns. http://bit.ly/bfK9ag

RT @bengoldacre – Ben Goldacre tells Julian Baggini why he expects rigour in the reporting of science http://bit.ly/cGF8vu

Live now. Sunday Times editor in debate with The Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, as Times newspapers prepare to charge http://bit.ly/aubfXu