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Google's Search Algorithm Has Been Ruined, Time To Move Back To Curation – http://read.bi/fGvdLw

Loss of reflectivity in the Arctic doubles estimate of climate models – http://bit.ly/gvvxnf

The Most Massive Black Hole in the Observable Universe – An Event Horizon 20 Billion Kilometers Across http://bit.ly/i6H2vf

Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism and its contribution to activism – http://bit.ly/dSZJxY

The largest mafia crackdown in the history of the FBI. http://bbc.in/iaPgpA

Conference last week: Statistical Methods for Meteorology and Climate Change – http://bit.ly/fTPzfT

For more environmentally focused tweets, you might be interested in @StuffForGraham – http://bit.ly/gmiYJa

For more environmentally focused tweets, you might be interested in @StuffForGraham

The Edge Question 2011: What Scientific Concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? http://bit.ly/dYVwdu

Edge Answers by: Lawrence Krauss (http://bit.ly/fWgrW4 Daniel Dennett (http://bit.ly/g094Ri Steven Pinker (http://bit.ly/fMcYVf

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History. Hmmm. Sounds a bit like psychohistory in Asimov. http://bit.ly/eK0bQ4

Pretty Cool. Video. Mini robot helicopters build towers, pyramids or walls http://bit.ly/hmxN8X

BBC Program: Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack http://bbc.in/hmxCIO

Pictures: Best Amateur Astronomy Images Announced – http://bit.ly/gqaTDc

Continued confusion about how freedom-of-information legislation should be applied to scientific research – http://bit.ly/fcZI01

A fundamental change to the way units are defined is afoot. http://bbc.in/dE9gil

Clever Algorithms – Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes describes 45 algorithms from the field of AI http://bit.ly/hcOQvM

Brilliant – The Journal of Universal Rejection http://bit.ly/gJoDk8

Red giant Betelgeuse has shrunk by 15 % over the past 15 years although it's just as bright as it's ever been. http://bit.ly/hYS48x

Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others – http://bit.ly/gk0qZ8

In the the UK Government's version of a 'green investment bank', testing each word is an education in sophistry http://bit.ly/foNKc4

Philosopher Mark Vernon asks, should companies pay to pollute? http://bbc.in/dJsu3r

Video – The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D – http://bit.ly/gnKvMn

Nick Clegg’s inaccessible press event at #Davos http://reut.rs/g5nohN

RT @BenGoldacre – How to read a paper http://bit.ly/gVBbzI

@NewHumanist – Model predicts 'religiosity gene' will dominate society – http://bit.ly/eQz9gn

BBC iPlayer – Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain – http://bbc.in/e8kKQo

Why nerds rule the world – http://bit.ly/fwxdoS

RT @WackJacq: Our ‘Jack Bauer’ Culture: Eliminating the Ticking Time Bomb Exception to Torture http://bit.ly/i0N1XX – @SSRN

The first mission to Mercury – http://bit.ly/fuXf2K

An independent video project in support of the Friends of Somerset's Libraries – http://bit.ly/gAzu38

On the Faustian Dynamics of Policy and Political Power – http://bit.ly/e6HYaK

4 features in appreciation of the life and work of Benoit Mandelbrot – http://bit.ly/fCDK3g

Economic models that model marginal changes have a hard time grappling with the economics of disaster… http://bit.ly/gJm2Cq

RT @SLSingh: Bad karma for Indian skeptics RT @standupmaths: Indian High Court rules "Astrology is a trusted science" http://bit.ly/fjlwTi

First ever aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe released – http://bit.ly/fNm78H

Is speculative fiction poised to break into the literary canon? http://bit.ly/h82nVP

@SSRN Naming Baby: The US Constitutional Dimensions of Parental Naming Rights – http://bit.ly/gci5Va

Teen Pregnancy in America: "Nobody Gets Married Any More, Mister" http://bit.ly/i3i8Vx

There is a very simple solution to the problem that is stumping Dilbert: http://bit.ly/hlfuz3

Who do you think is holding the infinite turtles, Dilbert? http://bit.ly/hfNCqM

Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology – http://nyr.kr/fLjup0

Scientists suggest protocol for messaging to aliens – http://bit.ly/hyCWRG

According to this research women are more attracted to men whose feelings are unclear – http://bit.ly/hT24xO

Open-domain question answering has long been one of the great holy grails of artificial intelligence. http://nyti.ms/giEqaX

RT @TylerCowen – "The Silence of the Lambdas" and other academic papers based on Movie Titles http://bit.ly/hh72Ya

RT @TylerCowen – Cosmic Commodities: How much is a new planet worth? http://bit.ly/eqiwQr

RT @a_yakovlev – Time Magazine Profile: Ray Kurzweil – http://bit.ly/gIkxFj

Emerging markets lose billions as investors pull out – http://bbc.in/f6Q82N

WikiLeaks reveals degree of Durham University's involvement in Iran – http://bit.ly/hBi7pW

Dilbert reminds me of the coalition government: http://bit.ly/h017ol

'Super-dairy' with 3,770 cows triggers 14,000 planning objections – http://bit.ly/h2GIwW

Each year for the past 2 decades the AI community has convened for the field’s most anticipated and controversial event http://bit.ly/hzGHHi

BBC Documentary: The Secret Life of Chaos – http://bit.ly/eOy6PE

Peter Davenport Believes in UFOs – http://bit.ly/frsk4u

Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists – http://bit.ly/dXUuny

Brilliant: Polluter Harmony is Canada's #1 matchmaking site for polluters, industry lobbyists, and politicians – http://bit.ly/eaLEGC

Israeli general claims Stuxnet attacks as one of his successes – http://bit.ly/fu6ytt

RT @bengoldacre – homeopaths are at their most amusing when they're being honest with each other http://post.ly/1d3cv

Quite amusing: Francis Maude on The Big Society – http://bit.ly/eCfj65

The von Neumann paradox – http://bit.ly/hkbpOo

Economist's View: "All Ethical Systems are Both Deontological and Consequentialist" http://bit.ly/h09fhh

Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? http://bit.ly/igXHBW

So, Why Does the US Air Force Want Hundreds of Fake Online Identities on Social Media? http://bit.ly/g9pqL1

MoneyScience – Disorganised Linkfest – 21-02-11 – http://bit.ly/hrOLmk

Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook – http://bbc.in/ihMgpg

A symposium on religious reactions to the possible discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence http://bit.ly/egait3

How the atom bomb helped give birth to the Internet http://bit.ly/hMs4sm

RT @SimoleonSense: Is there "a growing academic obsession with soundbites and 'impact'"? http://bit.ly/huSvaZ

"…a case study in why you shouldn’t do one-source blog posts on studies commissioned by vested interests…" http://bit.ly/eMOUQg

Which people are most likely to experience "flow"? – http://bit.ly/dXIKzS

Really quite cool Functional Model of Escher's famous Waterfall – http://bit.ly/fK359f

The Economics of Taxonomy – http://bit.ly/hwt8EM

Policy implications and issues associated with the religion question on upcoming UK Census – http://bbc.in/fz9MTJ @BHAnews

RT @DailyGalaxy – "The Extraterrestrial Silence" http://bit.ly/g2qX4S

More than £5m was paid out in in consultancy fees over the planned Severn Estuary barrage http://bbc.in/etRR67

I Am Spartacus! http://chzb.gr/hMLL0N

Christchurch Quake: Ice chunks fall from Tasman Glacier – http://bbc.in/hbju7c

RT @philoquotes: To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. ~ Marcus Aurelius http://bit.ly/philq

Hawking contra Philosophy – http://bit.ly/eBkF6g