Bike Thief

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/03/12/opinion/100000001423494/bike-thief.html

Now you too can steal a bike!

Markets in hacking

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0309/Hacking-for-the-good-guys-Chrome-cracked-at-Pwnium-contest

Now can you imagine the FBI hosting the same sort of contest for their website?

A novel approach to address corruption

http://ipaidabribe.com/

This could be a great data source for research if one is very, very careful about the drawbacks of the data (non-random sample, inaccurate reporting, etc.)

Mapping the brain

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147190092/the-man-working-to-reverse-engineer-your-brain

Do you have a Jennifer Anniston neuron?

Ten million dogs can't be wrong

http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/10/30/toilet-to-tap-water-recycling-might-be-in-your-future/

and

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/science/earth/despite-yuck-factor-treated-wastewater-used-for-drinking.html?pagewanted=1&hp

Amasia

Are you ready?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0209/Asian-American-continents-about-to-collide-in-50-million-years-or-so

Archae

Wait, when did we get not only a new phylum and kingdom, but a whole new domain? Biology has changed a lot since I was in 8th grade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea