Links 3/29/11

By mikethemadbiologist on March 29, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

The High Water Mark of American Science
Ancient America: The Mammoth Hunters
A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students

Other:

Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom
Public Pensions and Arithmetic Problems at Fox on 15th (a.k.a. The Washington Post)
Krugman Is Wrong: The United States Could Not End Up Like Greece
Paul Takes Another Swipe at MMT
Paul Krugman gets it wrong.... Again.
Hathaway conquers sage and screen
What's really driving the GOP's abortion war

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