‘This Was an American Experiment to See If It Caused Harm to Human Beings’

Nature revises the 1940s U.S. venereal disease experiments in Guatemala.

Thursday Is The Cruelest Month

* Lori Nix’s tiny apocalypses.

* Stephen Colbert vs. the death penalty. Last night’s Daily Show had some really good bits too.

* The year in photos, 1, 2, 3. Tough year.

* The top ten climate events of 2010. It was another hottest year on record.

* The past is another country: Americans in the 1930s were strongly pro-socialized-medicine, strongly anti-venereal-disease, and only slightly pro-fascist.

* And the future has been canceled: The Arthur C. Clarke Award is out of funding. Via MeFi.

Before My Time

Jay Leno’s evil twin goes on Late Night with David Letterman c. 1984 to rant about Star Trek and venereal disease. This is so far before my time I can’t even begin to make sense of this clip. More on YouTube.