http://johnpilger.com/articles/mandela-is-gone-but-apartheid-is-alive-and-well-in-australia
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-sad-and-puzzling-story-of-abbas-khan-the-british-doctor-found-dead-in-syrian-jail-9010993.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/as-we-move-towards-the-great-wars-centenary-its-time-to-recognise-the-reality-of-its-horror-9006197.html

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/australia-apartheid-alive-aboriginal-history
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=unraveling-the-mystery-of-ssris-depression

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/chinese-collider-expands-particle-zoo
http://www.nature.com/news/cosmologists-at-odds-over-mysterious-anomalies-in-data-from-early-universe-1.14368
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2013/mu2e-attracts-magnet-experts
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/12012013/article/discovery-pushes-back-the-clock-on-human-hand-evolution

we're slowly proving that there is no ether, i mean dark matter.
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/136

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/direct-measurements-of-the-wave-nature-of-matter/

this is awesome.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=inhaled-stem-cells-might-replace-lost-neurons

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-nsa-unconstitutional.html

i'm happy that the linnaean teleology is continuing to be dismantled.
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-ancestor-snakes-lizards-gave-birth.html

http://mitne.ws/1cwDL7P

their effect on bees is probably not as strong as claimed (it's not helping, but the truth is bees were already dying and the source isn't fully clear) but there's plenty of other reasons to reduce dangerous pesticide use.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/12/controversial-pesticides-linked-to-human-neurotoxicity.html

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/december-2013/four-things-you-might-not-know-about-dark-matter

kind of like blacks, whites, asians and native americans. these weren't different species. it's just variation.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/12012013/article/neanderthal-genome-sequence-reveals-interbreeding-in-four-early-human-species

http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2013/12/genome-neandertals-reveals-inbreeding
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-exposure-to-possibly-neurotoxic-pesticides-should-be-reduced-eu-safety-agency-recommends
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-trio-rsa-encryption-keys-noise.html