Quick Notes for a Friday #4

I've got a lot of links to pass along, so I'll try not to say too much.

• Blogerable mentions:
• My four most loyal readers have completed my survey, which I'll leave open for a while longer so that the rest of you get a chance to voice your opinions.
• Other posts from this week:
• Lesson Plan
• Black Brant and Alouette
• The Bubble Chamber this week:
• GMO
• Morality
• Disneyfication
• Links
• An interesting proposal from Cameron Shelley at CSTV for improving human-technology interactions.
• Canadian science in the news:
• The makings of a showdown between experts and hired guns in Alberta.
• The muzzling story that I'll be blogging about (extensively) in the future both here and at The Bubble Chamber.
• Original story
• Repost (with commentary)
• A second story
• Old news for anyone who has talked to anyone in the planning elements of the civil service, but an external think tank has confirmed it.
• Cool new Aurora Borealis livecam (via).
• Canadians who might be short-listed for Nobel prizes.
• In other Nobel news: a Nobel prize winner retracts (a non-Nobel prize winning paper). 
• More science in the news:
• We like our science to be bad news.
• Cultural aspect of science.
• Economics is not particularly scientific. 
• Chocolate! 
• Science fun courtesy of Metafilter and Boing Boing
• A not entirely terrible map of the history of science.
  
• More maps.
  
• Parting the sea.