Sunday morning roundup

"I Am Malala" is apparently a very good book.

Kick-ass Virginia woman travels to China to comfort a dissident and let the government know that the world is watching.

Our broken health care and political systems drive the price of drugs up to absurdity.

A lot of non-Jews "feel Jewish."

Mark Kelly, too, has thoughts on "Gravity."

A silver lining of the furlough is that I get to stop trying to understand physics until I get back to work, but then those people have to go and ruin crosswords for me.