Links of interest for April 15th, 2008 through April 21st, 2008:

• The Seven Myths of Energy Independence
  - Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil
• Frequently asked questions about poetry
  - Why don’t modern poems rhyme? Answers to that and other questions, in the forms of the poems themselves.
• Scientists Flesh Out Plans to Grow (and Sell) Test Tube Meat
  - In five to 10 years, supermarkets might have some new products in the meat counter: packs of vat-grown meat that are cheaper to produce than livestock and have less impact on the environment.
• Trying to take bite out of summer’s West Nile risk
  - An unforeseen consequence of the bursting housing bubble: abandoned spas and swimming pools breeding hordes of mosquitoes
• Cogitamus: Who Will Lead Us, And How Will They Do It?
  - Stephen Suh asks: Where is the John Brown of our day? For be sure, America is storing up the grapes of wrath.
• Up and Then Down
  - Nicholas White walked onto an elevator one night, with his life in one kind of shape, and emerged from it 41 hours later with his life in another.