Here are some posts for you. Science first:
What? The Great Lakes Too Obvious?
Make All Academic Research Databases Free For Everyone
Palaeowomaen: Barbara Isaac, Women in The Field, and The Throwing Hypothesis
Other:
Left And Right Working Together
Please, spare us from the melodramatic populism
Journalism, Civil Society and 21st Century Reportage
How to spot a hidden religious agenda
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Thanks for spreading this to your readers, Mike. There have to be more of these in other cities that are getting ignored. The Blogs already have a network in place to document them and the organizers are out there to help figure out what we can start doing to fix it at least a little bit. I just can't see wasting HuffPo's effort to document the Tent Cities and just end it there. They had a good idea but we can do better than that.