[scotusscores]
The Ideological History of the Supreme Court, 1937–2007 [chart].

[Los Angeles Times]
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. military officials that he lied to the CIA after being tortured.

[The Sydney Morning Herald]
Mikhail Gorbachev says it's time for a second American revolution in the spirit of perestroika.

[Wired]
A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits targeting the nation’s telecommunication companies for their participation in George W. Bush’s once-secret electronic eavesdropping program.

[BigOven]
Food social network and recipe cataloging software.

[Publishers Weekly]
With the decline in the number of traditional books released last year and the jump in on-demand, the number of on-demand titles topped those of traditional books for the first time.

[The New York Times]
Pico Iyer on "The Joy of Less."

[Web Del Sol]
A list of the top 50 literary magazines and metazines.

[NewScientist]
Your brain operates on the edge of chaos.

[Nature]
Physicist Leonardo DiCarlo of Yale University and his colleagues have made the first solid-state quantum processor.

[NewScientist]
NASA is criticised for sticking to imperial units.

[ScienceDaily]
Carbon dioxide is higher today than over the last 2.1 million years.

[The Economist]
A modified version of the internet’s communications protocol, devised for interplanetary use, is being tested by spacecraft.

[Scientific American]
Scientists have brought a newly-discovered bacteria back to life after more than 120,000 years in hibernation. It raises hopes that dormant life might be revived on Mars.

[BBC]
A 2,500-year-old bird's nest has been discovered on a cliff in Greenland. The nesting site is still continually used by gyrfalcons, the world's largest species of falcon, and is the oldest raptor nest ever recorded.

[cognitive fun!]
Learn about and play with your brain by trying out variants of actual cognitive tests.

[Dev.Opera]
An introduction to Opera Unite.