The Arts: Gizmo's Freeware lets us know that the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra offers about 250 orchestral works for free streaming.
Christianity: Relevant tells us what the Bible says about dating. (Nothing direct, but there are some important principles.)
Computing: Gizmo's Freeware discusses an easy, and free, method of sharing information across computers. You can create, and/or share, code, sketches, lists, and other types of information.
Gizmo's also reviews free Windows firewall programs.
A Wired post argues that you should never delete a Facebook account upon the death of the owner of the account.
Humor: (or something) Listverse tells us the strange stories of the names of some candies, and also gives information on the "candy desk" in the U. S. Senate. Who knew?
Listverse also lists 10 common words, and gives their history -- they used to mean something quite different. The list includes "artificial," "nice," and "silly."
Politics: Sojourners discusses evidence that our political, and other, strongly held beliefs influence our perceptions of the facts. Surprise.
National Public Radio reports that the head of the government's interrogation program says that waterboarding, and similar strategies, do not work.
Listverse reports on 10 controversial statistics often used by advocates of one side or another in the culture wars -- on rape, suicide, and gun violence.
Science: Wired discusses some electric fish, some new to science. They can communicate electrically with each other.
NPR, and many other news outlets, report on the discovery of gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein, and giving more evidence that black holes really exist. Nature also has a report on this.
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