Mads Kvalsvik

The best quote of the election came from Andrew Sullivan on Colbert:
there's a black man in power who has nothing to lose

I believe the exchange below between Obama and Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (Oct 18) lends support to my previous post about what Obama really thinks about civil liberties and limits on executive powers.
In particular, this sentence suggests a high level of self-awareness on this topic: "not only am I reigned in, but any president is reigned in"....

UPDATE II: Conor Friedersdorf won't vote for Mitt either.
UPDATE: Just came across this post from Kevin Drum (don't know how I missed/forgot it). Kevin, inspired by Daniel Klaidman's Kill or Capture book, says that Obama caved on national security because of lack of support from Democrats. I take that as an...

The Economist has a piece on how low social status is bad for your health, and why.  Which I find fascinating.
But this bit is really crazy:
Epigenetics—currently one of molecular biology’s hottest topics—is a process by which genes are activated or deactivated by the presence or absence of chemical structures called methyl and acetyl groups. Dr Tung and Dr Gilad found that methylation patterns...