Scientists have found more coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico that have been badly damaged by the Big Spill.

They say that not all reefs in the area were harmed. It makes sense that the oil was carried by currents in certain directions and others were spared. It makes for a good comparison.

Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court struck down the law criminalizing defamation.

However, Cambodia is moving in the other direction.

Extreme weather in Siberia has impacted salmon, causing bears to attack humans.

Russia has prohibited anonymous comments on web sites.

It has also imposed many other limits on Internet use, including arbitrary blocking of inconvenient web sites.

Of course, Russia is ruled by a tyrant, and this is what tyrants do. (I pity the poor fools in the Crimea that wanted to be under Putin's power — if indeed they were more than a bunch of armed gangs he had set up.)

What is more dangerous is that governments of "free" countries such as the US, France, Italy, and Finland also block web sites, and have laws such as the DMCA that lend themselves to political censorship.

A UK committee wants to ban anonymity on the internet.

US citizens: call on Congress to end bulk use of antibiotics in factory farms, before the resistant bacteria kill us.