What to Read on July 10, 2009

• "We Believe that Anyone Suspected of War Crimes Should Be Thoroughly Investigated" -- Jack Balkin - Haha, good one.
• The Curse of Cheap Money -- Barry Ritholtz - Another great chart illustrating another important cause of the current crisis.
• "Space Internet" to Link Worlds by 2011? -- National Geographic - The future -- that is, the rather distant future -- of humanity lies beyond this planet. Consider this piece of news the first of many in that direction.
• Fog Catchers Harvest Air's Water in Arid Places -- National Geographic - Very cool.
• Paperless Books: E-Paper Makes Headway -- Scientific American - Step by step into a brave new world...
• Shell Shock: Turtle Development Secret Revealed -- Scientific American - I love turtles. That is all.
• Neuroquote #4 -- Ryan Sager - Quote of the day, though it probably helps to be a probability-nerd to appreciate it.
• Law Will Let Afghan Husbands Starve Wives Who Withhold Sex -- The Independent/UK (via Common Dreams) - Send more troops...that'll take care of it.
• Meet Baitullah Mehsud -- Abu Muqawama - It is a very interesting profile and worth a read, but Abu Muqawama's point is important and accurate. We can't stop terrorism just by killing enough of them, unless we are prepared to wipe out the entire Middle East -- and I think we can all agree that that is morally wrong, too expensive, and just plain stupid.