...let's be honest.   You can't.

Back in September, researchers published the genome of Meleagris gallopavo, the domestic turkey and America's fourth most popular meat.It will be invaluable as future generations of scientists set out to optimize meat yield and quality without falling back on adding organic nonsense like water to make average turkeys seem better than they are.    

L-3 Communications, which sold $40 million in scanners to TSA, doubled its lobbyist spending in the last five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance its cause in Washington.

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN IPCC, says he was surprised that bogus data they printed as fact, that Himalayan glaciers were going to disappear by 2035, caused an uproar among the public and led to suspicion about what in their reports was accurate.When scientists first disputed that part of the report in 2007, he dismissed their statements as "voodoo science".  A few months later it was revealed to be the exact opposite; instead, that part of the 2007 IPCC report was voodoo, simply being a statement made to a journalist.

Disappointed that our solar system mnemonic "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" became "Mean Very Evil Men Just Shortened Up Nature" at the International Astronomical Union meeting which demoted Pluto as a planet?You're not alone but Mike Brown, the astronomer who ignited that spark, is unapologetic, and has even written a book on it, "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming", where he discusses the origins of his quest, which resulted in Eris and led to the elimination of Pluto as a planet due to a rather ridiculous, arbitrary of definition of planet specifically designed to exclude Pluto instead of being, you know, science.

How are actors able to absorb a TV or film script, hundreds of verses of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, or the bitchy, street-smart, exquisitely calibrated machine-gun dialogue of a contemporary playwright like David Mamet without blowing it when the eyes of an audience are upon them?For more than two decades, a pair of husband-and-wife researchers in Indiana — psychologist Helga Noice and actor/director/cognitive-researcher Tony Noice — tried to answer that question.  Steve Silberman has the story on PLoS Blogs.

Two anchors on WGN were rewarded for their patience in trying to show a bridge implosion live by...missing it.   After 5 minutes of trying to kill time, they segued to the studio to talk about the weather.    And as soon as they did, the bridge went.Watch them eat their papers in frustration.  No one likes to miss a bridge implosion.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is to the Obama administration what Dick Cheney was to G.W. Bush or Robert Rubin was to Clinton - it's better she not be allowed to speak.Yet speak she does.  Again and again.  And it will only get worse.   In response to outrage over the dilemma fliers face over state-sponsored sexual harassment or questionable scanners, she said "if people want to travel by some other means," they have that right.

A dedicated vegan has to make a difficult choice.  She realizes, as most culturally neutral people knew, that nutrition is a shockingly inexact science and that the human body may react to a strict vegan style for one person but moralizing and posturing that therefore everyone else is unethical if they aren't vegan is not an evidence-based claim, it is simply one of good fortune that they don't get sick.She isn't going all Texas barbecue about it, just eating a small bit of fish or an egg each day to achieve a little more balance than she had before, but says both her spirits and her physical health are better.

Forget those politically correct world leaders zipping around Lisbon in no-emission electric vehicles, an American president needs to cowboy it up, no matter which party he is.  Our honor demands it.   That means a stretch Limo - eight tons of diesel-fueled, middle-finger-flipping-to-environmentalists overcompensation while on trips abroad.Now, maybe he thinks Portugal is some third world country and the local police can't protect him from, you know, those terrorists he says don't exist, so he needs an armor-plated 6-miles-to-the-gallon ride.