Wednesday evening roundup

That Afghan six-year old refugee girl has (probably) been saved from the marriage she'd been bartered into.

The Muslim Brotherhood's classy response to Jon Stewart.

People (here) are probably not as conspiratorially minded as survey results would suggest.

I wanted to comment on a comment on that Mark Bittman piece I linked to this morning: what on earth is imitation protein? And if it was intended to connote imitation meat (which is not synonymous with protein), what makes it grosser than animal meat? I say this as someone who agrees with Mr. Bittman: I'd rather eat real food (the chickpea stew he mentions, for example) than isolated-soy products.

Is it too late to move the U.S. seat of the UN to Detroit?

Two takes on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and dark matter (or Alpha Muon, depending on the source). You may also want to read up on two takes on black holes, but either way, don't fall in. Do check out some cool photos of space.

Smiling has a measurable impact on other people. I'm not asking you to do it, though

Perhaps the best response so far to Princeton mom.

Okay, I can appreciate that some nominalizations are cringe-worthy, but some are nuanced: "fail" and "reveal" as nouns carry entirely different connotations, if not meanings, than "failure" and "revelation," respectively.