Links For A Sunday Morning

• My Bridge to Nowhere

  I am finally going to meet the birth mother, at her request, at a mall in Paramus, N.J.
  I have a lot of feelings about the meeting. I have had a lot of feelings for a long time now. After several years of trying to have a child, and after several more years of science trying on our behalf, my husband and I decided to adopt. Somehow we thought that once we let go of the genetic link, out of the ether, a child would appear. I have been wrong before, but never have I been quite this wrong.

• How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran
  How a failed 1979 sci-fi project called Lord of Light became the centerpiece of a C.I.A. rescue plan for six Americans captured during the storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
• First 3D Movie of Orgasm in the Female Brain
• Frequent Soccer-Ball Headers Linked to Brain Injury
• Jeff Bezos started with books. Now his company dominates the web in more ways than you think.
• Comment Moderator, the Dirtiest Job on the Internet
  Someone has to sanitize websites' comment boards. The toil and thick skins of online moderators.
• More Military Dogs Show Signs of Combat Stress
  At least 5 percent of the 650 dogs used by American combat forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder.
• 10 Books That You Might Have Missed but Shouldn't
  Some titles that might have flown under the radar.
• The Sex Addiction Epidemic
  It wrecks marriages, destroys careers, and saps self-worth. Yet Americans are being diagnosed as sex addicts in record numbers. Inside an epidemic.
• Retail Therapy?
  The UPA government's decision to allow FDI in the retail sector has spawned heated debates all over the country and rekindled fears of the East India Company.

  In an economy more globalised than ever in history, why is it so easy to scare Indians by raising the bogey of the foreigner?

• Kathryn Schulz: Don't regret regret
  We're taught to try to live life without regret. But why? Using her own tattoo as an example, Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and moving case for embracing our regrets.
• Serpentine
  A collection of images of the seductive and mythological snake, which will be published as a book in Fall 2012.
  The flowers one is neat too.
• Why does entering a room make you forget things?
  Have you ever strolled into the kitchen to get something only to immediately forget why you're even there? You're not alone. Psychologists from the University of Notre Dame have discovered a link between walking through doorways and lapses in our short-term memory.
• BigRock.com commercial - Savitri Bai
  Nice.
• Comic - Your opinion is very important to us
• The Secret of Life from Steve Jobs in 46 Seconds
• The Astonishing Visual Lists of Autistic Savant Gregory Blackstock
  From owls to lighthouses, or what a sixty-something retired pot washer can teach us about art and love.
• Louis C.K. Hates Twitter
  He is right. We are a generation who is more keen on documenting moments rather than experiencing them.
• Movie Trailer - Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
  Starring Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Directed by Shakun Batra.
• Japanese Engineers Create Extremely Lifelike Robot Girlfriend
  Like one of the commenters says...doesn't answer one obvious question.
• Grandmother Tips
  Just a few tips that my grandmother should have given me, but unfortunately never did.
  Nice.
• What Kind of Fish are You
  People who look like fish or the other way around.
• The 5 Best Toys of All Time
• Bangaloreans gear up for Jagriti Theatre's first season
  Wish it was closer to my place.
• Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born
  Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods.
• The next stage in our redesign
  Introducing the new Google bar.
• Little Printer
  Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.
• Infographic - Why Running Shoes Do More Harm than Good
• Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies
  Locked up in the bowels of the medical faculty building here and accessible to only a handful of scientists lies a man-made flu virus that could change world history if it were ever set free.
  The virus is an H5N1 avian influenza strain that has been genetically altered and is now easily transmissible between ferrets, the animals that most closely mimic the human response to flu. Scientists believe it's likely that the pathogen, if it emerged in nature or were released, would trigger an influenza pandemic, quite possibly with many millions of deaths.
  In a 17th floor office in the same building, virologist Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center calmly explains why his team created what he says is "probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make"-and why he wants to publish a paper describing how they did it.
• Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011
• Pictures - Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle
  Striking images via Google Earth.
• Flash Mob Hits Mumbai
  A flash mob of around 200 dancing to Rang De Basanti at CST.
  Also - Meet Shonan Kothari, the Woman Behind Mumbai's Flash Mob
• Zynga Builds Its CastleVille Walls, As Its Facebook Traffic Flattens And Falls
  Also - In Some Virtual Worlds, the Thrill Is Gone
  Zynga and other social game developers search for the next FarmVille-scale hit.
• Comic - Privacy
  :)
• Aadhar, A Few Basic Issues
  The much-feted UID project acquires a few enemies who take to attacking its methods.
• All the Single Ladies
  Recent years have seen an explosion of male joblessness and a steep decline in men's life prospects that have disrupted the "romantic market" in ways that narrow a marriage-minded woman's options: increasingly, her choice is between deadbeats (whose numbers are rising) and playboys (whose power is growing). But this strange state of affairs also presents an opportunity: as the economy evolves, it's time to embrace new ideas about romance and family—and to acknowledge the end of "traditional" marriage as society's highest ideal.
• The man who's been photographed with 2,000 celebrities
  Over 23 years Richard Simpkin has collared more than 2,000 celebrities to have his picture taken with them. Why, asks Tim Dowling.
• Critics reviews and ratings this week - I Am Singh, Land Gold Women and The Dirty Picture.