From the four corners of the web:
- The Scientific Tragedy of Climategate | Reason Magazine
Can climate change science recover from the damage done by leaked emails? - Scientists 'grow' meat in laboratory | Telegraph
The move towards artificially engineered foods has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time. - Foreign Policy Lists Cascio, Kurzweil, and Bostrom Among Their List of "Top 100 Global Thinkers" | Accelerating Future
Congratulations to Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, and Jamais Cascio for being selected for Foreign Policy's first annual list of Top 100 Global Thinkers. - Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling | The Guardian
The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen - Google sets limit on free news | BBC
The internet search giant Google has detailed plans to limit the number of online newspaper articles its users can read for free. - Parents Are Borrowing From Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer | NYTimes
It's little wonder, then, that some parents, and even a few child therapists, have found themselves taking mental notes from a television personality known for inspiring discipline, order and devotion: Cesar Millan, otherwise known as the Dog Whisperer. - Climate change belief given same legal status as religion | Telegraph
An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs. 
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 - Link dump for 2009.02.02 [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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 - Link dump for 2009.11.05 [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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 - Cure aging or give a small number of disabled people jobs as janitors - unary version. [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - At SENS4, Cambridge, UK [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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 - What do you get when you cross slightly evolved, status seeking monkeys with the scientific method? [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - Seeking the optimal philanthropic strategy: Global Warming or AI risk? [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - Machine Learning - harbinger of the future of AI? [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - At the Singularity Summit in NYC [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - Katja Grace: world-dominating superintelligence is "unlikely" [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - Normal Human Heroes on "Nightmare futures" [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - Anissimov on Intelligence Enhancement [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
 - Yudkowsky on "Value is fragile" [Last Updated On: November 8th, 2009] [Originally Added On: November 8th, 2009]
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 - Linda MacDonald Glenn guest blogging in November and December [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2009] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2009]
 - Link dump for 2009.11.15 [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2009] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2009]
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 - Link dump for 2009.11.29 [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2009] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2009]
 - The art of Tomas Saraceno [Last Updated On: December 13th, 2009] [Originally Added On: December 13th, 2009]
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