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Podcast: should I worry about this? Eden Robins sez, "My friend Cat Oddy and I worry a lot, so we decided to create a podcast to exorcise those worries: we research a different topic for each episode, and then discuss if it is actually worth worrying about." "Will we all die from a supervolcano eruption? Read the rest... The American science-denial playbook Michael Mann, the author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines and creator of the "hockey-stick" climate-change graph used in An Inconvenient Truth, writes in the the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the uniquely American "witch-hunt" he and other climate scientists are subjected to. Read the rest... Pastor advocates hitting children to instill respect for his god Evidently assault teaches respect for this purported Pastor's god. Watch as he brags about hitting a kid. (via) Read the rest... Music: "Jam on it," Newcleus (1984) Inspiration for my break dancing seven year old. Read the rest... Yoda dog toy, also for kids My daughter insisted that Nemo, our Great Pyrenees, needed this stuffed Yoda dog toy. My daughter likes it so much she now wants the Jedi master for her own. Read the rest... Caturday "Miaow," a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by DASc0tt. Read the rest... If Petraeus is charged over leaks, feds may use same law they're going after Snowden with The FBI and DoJ want to charge ex-CIA director David Petraeus for leaking classified info to his former biographer/mistress. The most likely law they'd charge Petraeus under? The 1917 Espionage Act. Just like Edward Snowden. Read the rest... The civilized response to Charlie Hebdo attacks: more surveillance "As politicians drape themselves in the flag of free speech and freedom of the press in response to the tragic murder of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists," writes Freedom of the Press Foundation'sTrevor Timm at the Guardian, "they’ve also quickly moved to stifle the same rights they claim to love. Read the rest...