Links 3/11/11

By mikethemadbiologist on March 11, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Corner piece
Palm Oil Plantations Equal Deforestation
Elephants give each other a helping trunk
What Killed Europe's Hyenas?
High (school) honors

Other:

Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America' (Good for Klein. I'm so sick of this self-righteous heartland bullshit)
Ross Douthat sells sex and young people way too short
Dogg Days
Our Serious Intellectuals
We're doomed!
Responsible Retirement
Late Night: Rich People are Oppressed

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Thank you, Mike. I suspect the retirement problem is one of those things that's too big to get anyone to address, but at least when we crash, I can sell a book on my status as prophet and help keep the economy going. :p

Thanks for the links. I loves me some sweet linkage.

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