Pebbles, Vol. 43

1. "The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant". And: A timeline of NSA domestic spying; also: Bruce Schneier on why whistleblowers are needed. Und: Bespitzelung in den USA und Deutschland.

2. Orson Scott Card on four types of stories.

3. Interview with a two-handed climate scientist (via)

4. Epigenetics and the dissimilarities between "identical" twins.

5. The first issue of the open-source Journal of Causal Inference is out. (via)

6. Photographs of poor New Yorkers in the 1890s.

7. Ein Grund, nicht die SPD zu wählen.

8. There's a beetle named in hounour of Hitler. Not to be confused with the bug that looks like Hitler. Or the goldfish that looks like Hitler. Or the house that looks like Hitler. 

9. When love disappears.

10. Merton's concept of ritualism illustrated (via)

11. The technical trends of the 2012-13 football season