NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: New strides in understanding mechanochemical reactions.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Confessions Of A Female Chubby-Chaser.

SCIENCE: Studies show fecal transplant’s effectiveness treating C. diff infections.

The Insta-Mother-in-Law is fighting a nasty recurrent c. diff. infection now. They suck. Her doctor said a lot of people are reluctant to try the fecal transplant because they think it’s gross. Grow up, people.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Maxine Waters To Become Senior Democrat on Financial Services Committee. “This is really an extraordinary development. ‘Flabbergasting’ might be a more apt word. Leave aside the recent ethics investigation over whether she used her position on the committee to help a bank her husband was involved with (which ended with her chief of staff getting reprimanded). Maxine Waters reliably delivers the craziest questions and the most bizarre speeches on that committee, and tends to demonstrate a stunning lack of grasp of the committee’s core subject matter.”

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: You Can Give A Boy A Doll But You Can’t Make Him Play With It.

SEVEN HEALTH BENEFITS OF SEX.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Look Inside A Futuristic Nanotech Lab.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Robert Sapp, Lunar Dance, the story of the first commercial Moon landing. Better hurry and read it while it’s still science fiction!

PROGRESS: Brain Pacemaker Tested On Alzheimer’s Patients. “Deep-brain stimulation is already used to treat patients with Parkinson’s, epilepsy, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and researchers are exploring its use in other conditions, including obesity. In each case, electrodes are inserted into different regions of the brain depending on the intended therapy. In the Alzheimer’s trial, the device is placed into a region of the brain involved in learning and memory.”

BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS: More And More.

AIRING TONIGHT: Fly Me To The Moon: A Documentary. Recommended by Virginia Postrel.

DAN MITCHELL: The Link Between High Tax Rates and Corruption.

A “CALLOUS LACK OF CARE” AT BRITAIN’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: “This is not the first such blast of raw emotion directed against the NHS from a bereaved relative that I have read, merely the first from a Labour MP.”

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Arbitrarily complex 3D DNA nanostructures built from DNA bricks. “This powerful advance should lead to programmable molecular arrangements for several applications.”

NETWORKED SMARTPHONES AS seismological warning systems. “The key enabler in smartphones for this type of work is in their accelerometers, that can detect and record movement and may monitor tremors. An app is being developed that will record the shaking during major events and then report the data back to a central server over the cell network. But what good is short notice when an earthquake is on its deadly way? Advance notice even in seconds is actually of value, as the BBC report noted, in not only giving people time to take cover but for trains to slow or planes to abort landings or for surgeons to manage their procedures knowing the event is on its way.”

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense.

Also, today only: “Singin’ in the Rain” and “Sound of Music” on Blu-ray starting at 53% Off.

POLIWOOD: Oliver Stone’s Ahistorical History Tarnishes Showtime and CBS.

A LOOK AT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND INCOME INEQUALITY.

WELL, I TAPED A STOSSEL APPEARANCE LAST WEEK: Five Bloggers I’d Like To See On FOX News. But it won’t air until January. I may be back, though.

Plus, the difference between Fox News and NPR. I’ve been on NPR more often than Fox, myself.

TWEET OF THE DAY: “Being democratically elected doesn’t mean everything you do thereafter is by definition democratic.”

EGYPT: Morsi Concession Fails To Quell Anger, Protests Continue. I must say, I’m favorably impressed with the Egyptian opposition’s backbone here.

ANOTHER HAPPY READER: David Diefenderfer emails:

In July of this year you noted here at Instapundit the publication of Roger Kimball’s book “The Fortunes of Permanence”. I bought the book and it had (unfortunately, I now realize) sat on my bookshelf unread because of other reading I had set aside to do. Last night I picked Mr Kimball’s book off the shelf and read the preface before going to bed. I was enthralled and I am now very much looking forward to reading the entire book. This is my reading priority. I want to thank you for recommending this book. And I want to thank you in general for your ‘In The Mail’ recommendations on the Instapundit site. I am particularly drawn to those authors such as Mr Kimball who so articulately and unapologetically express of the values of our liberty and culture.

Glad to help!

HMM: China’s Inflation Accelerates as Food-Price Gains Quicken.

DEBT: “Two fundamental facts have created an apparently insoluble dilemma for the global economy, and have turned countries like Argentina and Greece into victims of an impossible logic. First, debt continually grows; second, there is no really satisfactory way of getting rid of it. . . . The analogue in the world of debt negotiation is that a new start that allows borrowing to begin all over again is also impossible. A cleanup is impossible. That leaves only one solution: pile on new claims to such an extent that old debts appear paltry. Those who cannot forget the past are condemned to inflate it.” Oh, goody.