Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | August 31, 2011Links for you. Science:
Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the AmazonWhat do accommodationists do about creationist politicians?I've Been Told You Can Get Flu From the Flu Shot: False!Federal Work Suspension of Leading Arctic Scientist Ended as Investigation of His Investigators Deepens
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Conservatives, Nostalgia, and RacismThe Chapter That Went Missing From Dick Cheney's BookTech Wizards (are other professors and teachers also seeing this?)The New AtheismCrime in the Wake of Hurricane IreneRats emboldened by Rick PerryWhy I'm not voting for Obama in 2012Colleges…
mikethemadbiologist | August 30, 2011Links for you.
Another Scientist Calls Out Sen. Coburn's Misleading, Juvenile "Report"XMRV: ITS EVERYWHERE! UUUUUGH! ITS IN MY RACCOON WOUNDS! AND MY QIAGEN COLUMNS!Coulter Goes All Science-y in Bid to Disprove EvolutionYet another bad day for the anti-vaccine movement 2011Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria... For Good?
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Case study: why economics and addiction do not mixRepublican Politician Naked, Bending Over on Gay Sex Site (not surprising, not safe for work)FOUND BLOETRYMarrying Tech and Art: Steven Johnson on the magic of his first Mac--and how it changed his lifeWhat's…
mikethemadbiologist | August 29, 2011Not much of a storm, at least in Boston. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Teh Wimminz in Academia Thingy AgainRacial Disparity in NIH Grants: Solutions from Your Humble NarratorWorst Excuse Ever (to not disclose ties to pharma companies. For Intelligent Designer's sake NIH, even Darrell Issa would be embarrassed to use that excuse)Cost of Compassion: Drug Resistance in Military Hospitals (what's interesting is that drug resistance is so much higher in bacteria from Afghans than from U.S. soldiers)Friday Tiger Blogging
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Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker DealMore on the…
mikethemadbiologist | August 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
Something in the water: What drugs are local residents abusing? A researcher's solution to that vexing problem suggests just how much our sewage knows about usModern Rivers Shaped By Trees: Rivers were wide and shallow until the evolution of treelike plants, which got the waterways into line.HeritabilityOn science and liberalism
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It's Time For A New Kind Of Bank Of America Solution--The Right KindFenway Court (what is now the Gardiner Museum, when it was lived in and the shades were open)Your Home Birth is Not a Feminist Statement">Your Home Birth is Not a…
mikethemadbiologist | August 27, 2011Links for you. Science:
'Shrimp On A Treadmill': The Politics Of 'Silly' StudiesEvolutionary DiplomacyNHGRI funds development of revolutionary DNA sequencing technologies (lotsa nanoporey stuff being funded)Nat'l Academies Hope to Build a Better PostdocDoes Tenure Matter?
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The worst thing that Rick Perry said ...STD programs not sexy enough to avoid funding cutsOf the Tea Party, by the Tea Party, for the Tea PartyCall for Resignation: Kathryn S. Wylde, NY FedTom Ferguson: The English Riots - Just Meaningless Sound and Fury?Near-As-No-Matter FeudalismWhat could Obama have done better?…
mikethemadbiologist | August 26, 2011Links for you. Science:
Blog Debunks 13-Year-Old Scientist's Solar Power BreakthroughWhen Anthrax first came to North AmericaEco-labelled fish may be unsustainably fished, or the wrong speciesIf You Are Anti-Science, You Are Anti-JobsThe complexity of cancer
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Why isn't the climate left stronger?No App-etiteAnother Senior Journalist Confesses to IgnoranceDepartment of "Huh?!": What Obama Could Have Done Department (what I've found odd in all of this is how many of those who vehemently argue there's very little that could be done are so young. They sound old and crotchety)Rick Perry And…
mikethemadbiologist | August 25, 2011Links for you. Science:
Why biology (and chemistry) is not physicsThat's One Gigantic WaspDo You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?When you say flu, what do you really mean?Newly found: the world's oldest fossils!
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Legal academia and the problem of bad faithWhy 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 databookThe Taking Care of Our Shit InitiativeOpinion: A White, Powdery Substance in Copley SquareOur Broken Democracy, in One HeadlineFood Safety in China, and the Risk to the U.S.Make…
mikethemadbiologist | August 23, 2011Links for you. Science:
Warning: Killer fungi could run amok againRepublicans and Democrats Differ on EvolutionSewage Treatment, Coral Disease, and Koch's PostulatesRacial Disparity in NIH Grants: Priority Scores
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The Purpose-Driven LieTwo bad polls for Obama (liberal blogs and the Cassandra complex)Krugman and the Firebaggers: Hippie Punching DepartmentPrint vs. Online: The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers.What the U.S. Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen SexRick Perry's 'Texas Miracle' consisted of 125,000 new government jobsTaxing Capital Gains at…
mikethemadbiologist | August 23, 2011Erm, better late than never? Links for you. Science:
Sentences You Will Probably Never Read in a Published PaperThe GOP candidates have no time for your "science," scientists13-Year-Old Looks at Trees, Makes Solar Power BreakthroughGlobal Warming is a Litmus Test For US Republicans
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Does Rand Paul question the HIV AIDS link?TentpoledThe real grand bargain, coming undoneFree sucks. I want my privacy backRick Perry Talks About SexBrian Moynihan and Empress EudoxiaTeaching Sexuality EducationAs He Turns 75, Thoughts on the Legacy of Robert RedfordWhy a Strong Dollar Is a Terrible IdeaThe…
mikethemadbiologist | August 21, 2011Links for you. Science:
NIH Uncovers Racial Disparity in Grant AwardsOtters are back in EnglandScientists engineer suicide bomber bacteria to kill other bacteriaProject Nim - The Untold Story
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Painstaking, dot-point summary - bond issuance doesn't lower inflation riskWhat I Learned in Two Years at the Tea PartyWelcome to the Poorhouse: The tragic, heartrending, poignant plight of the moderately rich.The Secret Language CodePerry Keeps Treating `Em UglyThe death of pseudonyms? Not so fast...Oh DearU.S. debt--let's do the numbersAnti-Date Rape Straw
mikethemadbiologist | August 20, 2011Links for you. Science:
Just What is the Brain-Eating "Amoeba" Naegleria fowleri?OA doesn't cost jobs: it creates them. And saves lives.Why Sequence Microbes?Tests confirm that roaming deer caused fatal E. coli outbreak in Washington County, elsewhereScientific Literacy by Gender (only ~50% of people know it takes a year for the earth to travel around the sun?)
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The dual-taxation memeIs the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?Another One Bites the DustRick Perry's heroes have always been cowboys, although apparently the ones wearing the black hatsCase Study: How a notorious spammer was…
mikethemadbiologist | August 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
Texas Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe Responds To Rick PerryWhat Will You Earn With a Ph.D.?Pig-Size South American Rodent Spotted in Central CaliforniaCan Math Beat Financial Markets?
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Paul, its time to update your textbook (wonky, but must-read)Rick Perry for President? My Experience with "The Texas Unmiracle" (Krugman)Back to school in the USA: 4 chartsJohn Singer Sargent muralsRick Perry Is Now Sorry He Banned Parental Honor KillingsEnd This FedSummer jobs reduce crime and we can prove itWhat Michele Bachmann's submission theology really meansIn defense…
mikethemadbiologist | August 18, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ringing the Warning Bell: Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella (one thing that's unclear is the mechanism of colistin resistance, since I haven't seen the paper yet)Crosstown TrafficThe Physics of a Sad BalloonBaby Fat: Do birth control pills make women gain weight?
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Hard and Complicated Aren't Synonyms (very good point about political problems versus technical ones)What's The AgendaDid Rick Perry Have A Fake Black Guy Running A Twitter Account?New Data: Tea Party is Authoritarian, Not LibertarianShorter Weeks, Longer VacationsCan Suburbs Be Designed to Do Away with…
mikethemadbiologist | August 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
Breast Cancer Awareness Marketing has a Pink ProblemHomosexual zebra finches form long-term bondHere's what it actually costs to run a university science labWhat Does It Cost to Run a Small College Lab?
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Krugman Taken to the Modern Money Cleaners"Almost treasonous"Chinese authorities find 22 fake Apple storesWashington, Capital of Economic Optimism (as someone who visits Washington regularly, this definitely rings true; the economy there is doing well, much to the detriment of the rest of us)Physician Administrative Costs in the US vs. CanadaThe Enlightenment in…
mikethemadbiologist | August 16, 2011Links for you. Science:
Poo3d!!!!Creationism: That (Not So) Old Time ReligionA few notes about SCIENTISTS for those attending 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'...
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Income inequality is bad for rich people tooWho's Really Responsible For U.S. Debt Downgrade (words do have meaning)Governor Perry Caught in Explosive Dirty Deals ScandalIf Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder WomanEver Meet A Republican Anti-Gay Fanatic Who WASN'T A Closet Case?Most Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency expenseGoing to the Food BankThe Big Washington Consensus LieThe moral decay of our society is as bad at…
mikethemadbiologist | August 15, 2011Links for you. Science:
Universal Flu Vaccine Another Step Closer, But Still FarThe annotated apocalypse: Anthropologists tackle 2012Drug Resistance in Food -- Coming from Aquaculture?
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I blame the British government for the riots (I think everyone who prattles on about the 'culture of poverty' should read this)It's the Political Economy, Stupid!The Great Splintering"Hop on the Welfare Wagon" (from 1932. Things change, not always for the better)Rick Perry's Unanswered PrayersThe Hijacked CrisisEvery single GOP 2012er would walk away from a 10-to-1 deficit deal on spending and taxesIs…
mikethemadbiologist | August 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
New drug could cure nearly any viral infectionFever in children: 5 facts you must knowHalf the variation in I.Q. due to variation in genesGoing Organic Cuts Poultry Farms' "Superbug" Bacteria in Single Generation
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Can Teachers Alone Overcome Poverty? Steven Brill Thinks SoSimple questionsField PositionThe Good Old DaysWhy Michelle Malkin Should Be Caged Like a Rabid Shih Tzu (Teacher Edition)THERE ARE NO LIBERTARIANS IN AIRPLANESThe redistribution of federal taxes from state to state in the USTurning Poverty Into an American CrimeToo Big To FailThey'd Better…
mikethemadbiologist | August 13, 2011Links for you. Science:
"We Win": Conservative Media Celebrate Public Misconception That Climate Scientists "Falsified" DataEvangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve (it's actually about how human genomics is forcing a reality check. For some).A Fox News Science LessonIt's not a freaking spider bite
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The Bad Deal (by James Galbraith. Must-read)New York Times' Panic Reporting Gets S&P, Markets 180 Degrees WrongGood Thing I Read the PostTent Cities and DemonstrationsThe myth of the job creatorThe debt ceiling, the White House and the damage of 'compromise'Chinese Menu…
mikethemadbiologist | August 12, 2011Links for you. Science:
Economic Astronomy: Gender Gaps in Lifetime EarningsCrohn's disease is about barely keeping you aliveA crowd psychology analysis of the riotsThe spread of disorder - can graffiti promote littering and theft?
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For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide FraudThe Ideology of NoWhy the Meat Industry Sells SalmonellaClimate change deniers spout B.S., says Al GoreCan the Middle Class Be Saved?Rick Perry is not too smartIs Obama Smart?An excuse for slashing entitlementsThis is why your flight is delayedThe Unappeasable Financial Markets
mikethemadbiologist | August 11, 2011Links for you. Science:
IonTorrent: longer reads, longer homopolymers?The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up SteamHow people in science see each other (hysterical)The Mangled Web of Scientific Misinformation
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102 Things NOT To Do If You Hate TaxesWhat You Need When You're Poor: Heritage Foundation Hasn't a ClueMarshall Auerback: A Beer(s) Hall Putsch From the Rentiers?most of the kids are alrightPassword StrengthLetter to Senator Kerry on Social Security CommentsDo Liberals Understand American Politics? (Willis makes a very good point, although he seems confused as to…