Science
New possibly habitable planet found - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Habitable-super-Earth-found/articleshow/11014842.cms
Woolly mammoth to be cloned within 5 years? - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/06/woolly-mammoth-cloned-within-five-years-well-believe-it-when-we-ride-it/
Stanford University is organising a few free online classes - http://www.modelthinker-class.org/
Philosophy
Good concise response to the philosophers' insinuation that morals have a supernatural basis - http://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/12/can-an-atheist-have-a-code-of-ethics/
Jonathan Israel's 8 points seem like a good philosophy to live by - https://www.economist.com/user/3917426/comments
Animals
Why do naked mole rats live so long - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88iqQ7GkLT0
Also read why male rats have rubbish sperm - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/04/the-rubbish-sperm-of-the-naked-mole-rat/
Interesting facts about odd-eyed cats - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd-eyed_cat
Pop Culture
Salman Rushdie on when the film is better than the book - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO0JqkKFG5o&feature=related
India
On Russians in Goa - http://goanvoice.org.uk/gvuk_files/GQ_Apr_2010.pdf
News
America has banned the import of Kinder eggs - http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/national/04212011_2.xml
Tit for tat diplomacy is getting out of hand - http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/monkey-arrested-in-pak-for-crossing-india-border-155587
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