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By mikethemadbiologist on August 25, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Why biology (and chemistry) is not physics
That's One Gigantic Wasp
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
When you say flu, what do you really mean?
Newly found: the world's oldest fossils!

Other:

Legal academia and the problem of bad faith
Why the World hates economics (the end has a really good discussion of the actual--not economist-postulated--role of bank reserves)
Don't kill America's databook
The Taking Care of Our Shit Initiative
Opinion: A White, Powdery Substance in Copley Square
Our Broken Democracy, in One Headline
Food Safety in China, and the Risk to the U.S.
Make It In America: How We Can Bring Manufacturing Back (No, Really): Bringing manufacturing back to our shores is good policy wedded to great politics. So why aren't we talking about it?
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