INDIVIDUAL BRAIN CELLS: Smarter than you think.

WHY ARE ELECTRIC VEHICLES so expensive?

REALLY: Making legal threats against bloggers is seldom a good idea.

THEY GROW UP SO FAST: Andrew Malcolm’s Top Of The Ticket blog at the L.A. Times is now three years old.

COMPARISON: Microsoft Web Apps vs. Google Docs.

THE “CRY WOLF” SCANDAL makes Inside Higher Ed.

JALOPNIK: I Sold Everything To Buy A Lamborghini And Drive Across The Country. “This is a love story, but not a conventional one. Sure, there’s a woman. There always is. But it’s when the woman split that the real romance began. This is the story of Richard Jordan, a man who lost love and then found it again in an exotic Italian sports car and the open American road.”

IN DEFENSE OF THE “Starter Marriage.”

MINUTE-BY-MINUTE LESSONS from the Falcon 9 launch.

IN THE MAIL: Changes, the latest installment in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series.

INDEED: “After eight years of tarring the Bush administration as utterly ineffectual and to blame for natural disasters, job losses, and tarnishing America’s image abroad, Democrats’ former arguments about ‘competency’ are now coming back to haunt them.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Incredibly Wonderful World of our Sensitive Elites.

MISSING TEENAGE SAILOR FOUND ALIVE.

CAN THE UNITED STATES punish BP’s shareholders?

CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS? Republican senator’s plan to let guns on Amtrak moves closer to reality.

GERARD VAN DER LEUN on Sarah Palin’s breasts: “I am, however, amused by the frothing search on the left for whether or not Sarah Palin’s pair has grown. Seems to me what the left should be asking is not if Sarah Palin’s pair has grown, but when their president plans to grow a pair.” Now that’s just mean.

JAMES CARVILLE: If the oil spill were threatening Martha’s Vineyard, we’d hear more.

OKAY, WE’VE SPENT BILLIONS ON “GREEN JOBS” — Now let’s try to figure out what “green jobs” means.

JERRY BROWN is undeterred by Godwin’s Law. “Yesterday, the Brown campaign tried to claim that Sovern took the comment out of context after the Whitman team blasted Brown for ‘mud-slinging.’ They’re not denying Brown made the Nazi comparison, however, but I bet they’re going to try to get their candidate to do his jogging on indoor tracks from now on.”

HEH: The people picked their candidate, but he’s so terrible that it must be a conspiracy.

ANDY KESSLER: The iPhone, Net Neutrality and the FCC. “AT&T’s Picturephone, shown at the 1964 World’s Fair, was a huge flop. Apple’s new iPhone 4, announced this week, has a front-facing camera for video chats. It might succeed, except that AT&T isn’t providing enough bandwidth capacity.”

UNEXPECTEDLY: “Sales at retailers unexpectedly fell in May for the first time since September following a record slump in purchases of building materials, adding to fears the economic recovery was losing some steam.”

REMEMBERING THE Breezeway Mercurys.

GIANT PLANETS made in a jiffy.

AN EDUCATIONAL ENRON? Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Test Scores. “Of all the forms of academic cheating, none may be as startling as educators tampering with children’s standardized tests. But investigations in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Virginia and elsewhere this year have pointed to cheating by educators. Experts say the phenomenon is increasing as the stakes over standardized testing ratchet higher — including, most recently, taking student progress on tests into consideration in teachers’ performance reviews.”