AAAS Begins Today: International Climate Politics; Teaching Evolution in the Islamic World; Fracking Fractures; and much else

We are both here in Washington, D.C. (or will be soon) for the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. Some of the stuff happening is here. First off, John Holdren speaks tomorrow night, so everybody will be expecting pointed words on the science budget. Meanwhile, let me pull a few threads--sessions that sound very cool and where I think I'd learn something: