1. Indian is exporting a negative externality. This is one of the first mainstream articles to focus on plasmids in the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. They allow a transfer of resistance at a much greater rate than resistance would spread if only direct descendants of mutant bacteria were able to pass on resistance.
2. Even a crappy game like Mass Effect 3... the other views in this piece are not as contrarian as that one.
3. Interesting interpretation of the drawbacks to Hollande's victory. The policy markers seem to like playing chicken over there. If you are playing chicken with someone you don't trust do you flinch each time or do you get the collision over with so you don't have to keep flinching in subsequent games? It probably depends on how many times you think you'll have to play chicken.
4. Twitter does something very good. If more companies followed their lead then this would at the very least mitigate a significant amount of damage. Maybe eventually it will help public opinion turn against patent trolls in a way that can finally get the attention of lawmakers.