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By mikethemadbiologist on March 14, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Everybody Thinks Scientifically
Publication Strategy...If I can't beat 'em, I'll wait 'em out...
Can libraries survive in a digital world?
Arsenic Author Dumps Peer Review, Takes Case to TED (but bloggers suck. Or something)

Other:

Fareed Zakaria Is Upset Because the Government Spends So Much More on Each Rich Person Than on Each Child
Team Sex Is Dirty and their false assumptions
If you don't already hate investment bankers
The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
Real medicine
Five Social Security Non-Myths
Straight talk from a Green Line attendant (this is awesome)
Greed is good in NFL labor talks
Older union member's fears

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