Sunday Links

By mikethemadbiologist on December 6, 2009.

Winter has finally arrived. Time to read links! Science:

Statistics, damn statistics and well kept secrets

How to report in vitro cancer studies: maitake mushroom extract doesn't "fight cancer"

Because As We All Know, The Green Party Runs the World.

Repeated break-ins point to 'orchestrated campaign' by climate skeptics

Other:

This is central to his point, I guess

New Agers and Creationists should not be President

Hacked E-mails and "Journalistic Tribalism": Climate coverage is imperfect, but is it ideologically biased?

Michael Shermer: False profit of Libertarian education

The wrong jobs summit: The White House's economic policies, which were calibrated to address a less severe crisis than the one we've endured, need a tuneup. But until the key mechanics can agree on the nature of the problem, there's little to be gained from a 'jobs summit.'

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'Leading the Way' with the 2010 PLTW Innovation Summit

Inside Al Gore's army

SEED magazine has just published my report on the 2009 Summit of The Climate Project, Al Gore's effort to spread the word on the climate crisis with the help of 2,500 volunteers trained to present his "Inconvenien

and it is goodbye from him...

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

(Long) Weekend Diversion: Northwest String Summit 2013

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." -Victor Hugo

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