Stuff going on in the blogosphere:
Darksyde writes about Rep. Brad Miller's attempt to provide protection for scientific whistleblowers employed by the government. Since pressuring scientists to make their results conform to politically-desireable outcomes is standard operating procedure for the current administration, such protection is especially valuable and timely.
Phil Plait reports that the National Academy of Sciences has released their advice to Congress concerning NASA. Guess what? Not nearly enough money is being allocated to accomplish what the agency is being asked to do. Since science is one of the first things to go when the budgets fall short, let's hope Congress actually listens.
ScienceBlogs, you may have noticed, has expanded. Among CV favorites that have found a new home within the Borg collective are Dynamics of Cats, The Loom, and Mixing Memory; Bora Zivkovic of Science and Politics has a new blog at A Blog Around the Clock. While we're at it, John Horgan has started a new blog at The Scientific Curmudgeon.
I can't decide whether my favorite blog is The Sartorialist or How to Write Screenplays. Badly. Between them they cover more or less everything you need to know.
Except that pre-marital sex turns women into cold, inhuman shrews. I didn't know that.
All other need-to-know items are covered succinctly by Steinn. A handy list of reminders for when things become hazy.
Update:Phil has more on the Miller amendment, which was voted down along party lines. And DarkSyde has his own report on the science events at YearlyKos, including a link to a transcript of Wesley Clark's speech.
