Tuesday Links For Thee

I must be having flashbacks or something because I could have sworn Joe S just compared Sarah Palin to Caroline Kennedy. Couldn't have happened, right?

Bombs Found In Paris Department Store

How big teeth mark out the sexiest whales

Baby birds practise new songs while they sleep

Gay rights group riled by tampon makers' sex ed books

Washington Post: Grand Jury Investigates Richardson Contributor
A federal grand jury is investigating whether a financial firm improperly won more than $1.4 million in work for the state of New Mexico shortly after making contributions to political action committees of Gov. Bill Richardson (D).

Rats with bad hearing trained to filter noise

Over 2T tons of ice melted in arctic since '03

Scientist says he has found oldest spider web

Two new Burns poems discovered alongside 'rude' letters

AP: Wife of Illinois governor apologizes to neighbors
Illinois first lady Patti Blagojevich has sent a note to her neighbors apologizing for the media attention that has besieged her Chicago neighborhood.