Some of the stuff here is a little over my head every now and then, to be fair (it is aimed as people with engineering degrees after all), but it is a good break from a lot of the watered-down or hyped-up stuff the mainstream newspapers report on science articles. http://cen.acs.org/index.html aldaily.com is a really good curated website that focuses on literature and intellectual correspondence. It puts out three articles a day - a book review, an in-depth article, and an essay, as well as bearing a long list of special links on the sidebar for respected sources of news and insight. Being a South African news website, http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/ might not be what all of you are looking for, but it has some of the world's best investigative journalism (something that seems to be evaporating the world over), and provides a good outside perspective on US politics, as well as well-written literature reviews and broad coverage of African goings-on. Just a really good paper.