WHAT TO DO ABOUT STUDENT LOAN DEBT when you’re unemployed.

MARIA KONOVALENKO on science against aging.

WEIGHT TRAINING IS GOOD FOR YOU: Low Muscle Mass Linked To Type 2 Diabetes. “Even skinnier old people with low muscle mass are at greater risk of type 2 (insulin resistant) diabetes. The risks do not just come from fat.”

THE CHALLENGES OF virtual hairstyling.

MARKDOWNS ON magazine subscriptions.

PJTV: BREAKING: Richard Landes from Jerusalem on Gaza Flotilla Violence.

VIA GERI SORIANO LIGHTWOOD ON FACEBOOK, the world’s coolest computer mouse.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Air Force Pounds MILF.

“USEFUL IDIOTS CONDEMN ISRAEL.” Actually, I think that’s giving them too much credit . . . .

MAX BOOT: “Much nonsense has been written in recent years about the prospects of American decline and the inevitable rise of China. But it was not a declining power that I saw in recent weeks as I jetted from the Middle East to the Far East through two of America’s pivotal geographic commands — Central Command and Pacific Command.” America’s biggest weakness is its political class, where the decline is indisputable . . . .

TACIT KNOWLEDGE: You don’t know how much you know.

THE NEW ECONOMY: Interns actually paying to work.

THE SECRET INGREDIENT in the Obama formula for success.

STEWART BAKER: The Solicitor General Lays An Egg. “The brief is at best a hacked-together, please-no-one compromise. At worst it borders on the unprofessional.”

HEADLINE: At Least Ten Killed as “Peace Activists” Attack Soldiers.

WHAT WOULD A EURO COLLAPSE mean for the United States?

MEMORIAL DAY: Remembering The Fallen.

EIGHTIES MUSIC, CULTURE, AND TV, at LikeTotally80s.com.

IN THE MAIL: From William J. Voegeli, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State.

DO FALLING HEMLINES tell a tale?

HUMAN BRAINS NOT WIRED FOR CONSUMER CREDIT.

Plus, “Governments, also made up of humans, similarly can’t handle debt rationally either.”

MARK TAPSCOTT: Will journalists wake up in time to save journalism from Obama’s FTC? “Release of the Federal Trade Commission’s working paper on ‘reinventing journalism’ makes it clear that there is no more time for diplomacy about this issue: Barack Obama is determined to federalize the news industry just as he has banking, autos, and health care.”

MARKETS IN everything.

THIS WEEK IN THE FUTURE.

ONLINE CONVENIENCE: Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In.