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By mikethemadbiologist on June 11, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias
Once more unto the "government waste" breach
Announcing The Batavia Open Genomic Data Licence
No joke: This is the biggest battery breakthrough ever

Other:

Making work
Beyond the Drug War: Drug Policy, Social Interventions, and the Future
The Rentier Regime
Against prudery
Weiner, Spitzer, Clinton and the Web of Authoritarian Sexual Politics
In defense of nekkid pictures, even of dudes
Hyperinflation for Hyperventilators
Our Wasteful Health Care System

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