Superstrong Space Magnets Are Just as Weird as We Thought [link]

Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science [link]

Obama's Climate plan [link]
UN climate change chief hails Obama commitments [link]
Wal-Mart's chief for the Obama era [link]
Video: Obama Outlines Job Creation Plan [link]
Obama’s Radio Address [link]

Meet Tim Geithner... [link] wikipedia: [link]
Geithner, apparent pick for Treasury, isn't a Wall Street man [link]

Luca Turin: The science of scent [link]

James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami [link]
Better and Better: The Myth of Inevitable Progress by James Surowiecki [link]

Update later with more:

George Smoot: The design of the universe [link]

Lee Smolin: How science is like democracy [link]

Alan Russell: Why can't we grow new body parts? [link]

Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play [link]

The top atheistic fallacy that plagues Youtube [link]

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? [link]

Evelyn Glennie: How to listen to music with your whole body [link]