J. STORRS HALL on ClimateGate, science, and politics.

NO POLITICAL TIMING HERE: EPA declares CO2 a pollutant.

IF IT WERE A PILL, EVERYONE WOULD BUY IT: Exercise Boosts Telomerase, Reduces Erosion of Telomeres.

WHY SWITZERLAND has the lowest crime rates in the world.

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BLEG: My earlier blog posts on electronics projects for kids produced this email: “Hubby is totally sold on the Snap Circuit toy for our boys — and so we’re ordering it ‘from the grandparents.’ I’ve been browsing Amazon for a book to go along with it to explain concepts that will come up in their play. . . any recommendations?” When i was a kid there was Elementary Electronics magazine, but I don’t know what’s out there now.

WILL SPANX MEAN the end of the sexual revolution? I doubt it, but they can’t help . . . .

TAKING TEXTBOOKS beyond text.

A WHILE BACK, I linked to a review of Monster’s power line networking technology. I’ve followed that stuff for years, but it seems to have gotten better. On the strength of that good review, I ordered the starter kit and installed it over the weekend. “Installation” just consisted of plugging one unit into the wall near the router and connecting it with an Ethernet cable, then plugging a corresponding unit into a power outlet in her room and connecting it to her computer with another Ethernet cable. It worked perfectly immediately, solving an annoying problem with spotty wireless coverage in the Insta-Daughter’s room. If you’re worried about wireless security, you could give yourself a wired network with these things quite easily, though it’s a bit pricier than wireless.

REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR.

Meanwhile, reader Pete Jernakoff writes: “Others may have mentioned this, but in case they have not, there is a cool Pearl Harbour overview pic at Bing which includes the USS Arizona memorial. Not so much at Google. I thought that you might want to know.”

HEH: “Taking a private jet to a conference on stopping global warming is a bit like traveling in a sedan chair carried by indentured servants to a summit on stopping human trafficking.”

Plus, “It’s too cold to walk from the hotel to the convention on global warming. Let’s take a limo!”

ETHICS: NY Times: Is it OK for Law Firms to Discriminate Against Conservative Law Students?

UPDATE: Professor Bainbridge: “This episode will come as no surprise to those who believe that prejudice against conservatives is far more rampant in law firm and law school faculty hiring than any other form of discrimination.” Plus, well . . . just read the whole thing.

HORSE, BARN DOOR? California Group Pushes for Pension Reforms.

AVATAR iTAG: Toy Of The Future?

STEVEN DEN BESTE: Government By Wishful Thinking.

DAVID KILEY: With Plug-Ins and Hybrids Dominant, Is Diesel Dead in the U.S.?

DON’T GO GREEN — ANN ALTHOUSE NOTES the new environmental line: “We’re a nation of laws, and, in Tidwell’s mind, that means not that we are free but that we need law telling us every last thing we ought to do: Individual voluntary action is a big distraction from what we really need — compulsion.”

LIVING WITH ROBOTS: There’s a downside.

YEAH, I ALREADY POSTED ON THIS BUT I’M GOING TO DO IT AGAIN: Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges. If they were really worried about global warming they’d be doing this by Skype. But they live in a culture of entitlement. Energy conservation and carbon limits, like taxes, are for the little people.

Related: From ClimateGate to Carbonhagen. “For the delegates to the Copenhagen Climate Change summit, inconvenient truths abound. Not the least of which is the prediction that attendees will generate a carbon footprint equal to all of 2006 for Morocco.”

STEVE CHAPMAN: Boobs In Congress: What the recent mammogram controversy reveals about health care “reform.”

THE MOST POWERFUL ONE-STAR GENERAL, ever.

BOINGBOING: Impotent futurism: the design of Allende’s cyber-utopian boondoggle. “The video explores how Beer’s writing, infographics, and industrial design worked together to create a science fictional narrative of omniscience and ominpotence for Salvador Allende’s socialist government.”

A LOOK AT Brazil’s leading Obama impersonator. Complete with fake Secret Service agents. Who may at the moment be looking better than the real thing. . . .

PHOTOBLOGGING the L.A. Auto Show.

More on Flickr.

A GENE-TESTING MACHINE FOR DOCTORS. Faster, please.

IN THE MAIL: From Arnold Kling: Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy. It’s unusually well-blurbed . . . .