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Obamacare Sticker Shock: Not Very Shocking | New Republic

BBC News – Cats killing billions of animals in the US

BBC News – Kelvin Okafor pencil drawings amaze art critics

First Toy Multiverse Created in a Laboratory, Say Physicists | MIT Technology Review

EconoSpeak: Very Serious People Completely Missing The Boat On The Budgtet (Yet Again)

Guest Post: Brad Mattson on the ‘Real’ Birth of the Solar Industry : Greentech Media

Perpetual bonds: A clever way to manage the national debt in a time of low interest rates. – Slate Magazine

Electronics on Paper – IEEE Spectrum

How To Spot Bad Wall Street Research – Seeking Alpha

Europe’s Fundamentals Sink Despite Investment Surge | Knowledge@Wharton Today

BBC Sport – Mario Balotelli: Man City’s patience finally runs out with striker

The US gun debate is no longer anchored in reality; if it wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny – Telegraph Blogs

Tortoise ‘survives in locked store room for 30 years’ – Telegraph

Students: how to be boss-friendly online | Education | guardian.co.uk

Thomas Friedman is Way Off Today | Beat the Press