Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | March 30, 2011Merry Wednesday! Links for you. Science:
The Real Reason Women Quit EngineeringAntarctic lake hints at a world of virus-attacking virusesThe flat and the fit
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A reason to cheatBeyond Erase to the Top: The Myth of Michelle Rhee ContinuesIllustrating How Infrastructure Deals Result in High Fees and Diminished ServiceConservative Think Tank Seeks Michigan Profs' Emails About Wisconsin Union Battle ... And MaddowConfessions of a Black GentrifierDoes the Highway Patrol Keep Us Safe?The Broken Mousetrap Board Game of Growth Through Austerity Deficit ReductionWHAT DOES IT MEAN (on Wisconsin…
mikethemadbiologist | March 29, 2011Links for you. Science:
The High Water Mark of American ScienceAncient America: The Mammoth HuntersA Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students
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Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic FreedomPublic 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 GreecePaul Takes Another Swipe at MMTPaul Krugman gets it wrong.... Again.Hathaway conquers sage and screenWhat's really driving the GOP's abortion war
mikethemadbiologist | March 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
We need to work together to save the Statistical Abstract of the United StatesChina pig crisis: Drug residues in porkElizabeth Taylor: Beautiful Mutant
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The trouble with fund managementNonprofits Must Stand Up and Fight for Themselves, or PerishIt's Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even KnowHow Wall Street Crooks Get Out of Jail FreeThe Innocence of the Liberal HawkA Dream Still DeferredThe editorial search engineAt Least Five Babies Have Died Since Nebraska Denied Undocumented Mothers Prenatal Care
mikethemadbiologist | March 27, 2011Links for you. Science:
Big dust-up about kin selectionWriting Popular Science Books Doesn't Make You a ScientistWhy are these trees completely wrapped in spider webs?
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Humanitarians of the YearThe Gang That Couldn't Lobby StraightBachman For President (the Tea Party is the theopolitical right)How Not to Respond to Political Bullies: Lessons from the Smithsonian's Response to the Manufactured Right-Wing Controversy Over Hide/SeekNot Good (why cuts made in future payouts don't reduce deficits. If you care about that sort of thing)'Scuze me while I wave the bloody shirt...The Washington…
mikethemadbiologist | March 26, 2011Links for you. Science:
Congress and Science Education: Wolf Berates NSF on Overdue ReportInclusive Fitness: Return to the Wrestling RingResearchers Challenge E. O. Wilson Over Evolutionary TheoryRobert Trivers and colleagues on Nowak, Tarnita, and Wilson's "The evolution of eusociality"Re: Homophobia and Evolutionary Psychology
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Turkeys at Longwood Medical Area and Harvard Medical School. (AAAIIEE!!!)Gassy (as I've been saying, reducing energy use really involves changing how people live. Not easy to do)CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program'Death…
mikethemadbiologist | March 25, 2011Happy Friday! Links for you. Science:
We need to work together to save the Statistical Abstract of the United StatesAt odds with disease risk estimatesThe other weaver antsUnauthorized medicine: Leave important clinical testing to the professionals
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What the Baby Joseph cases tells us about the anti-choice movementNobodies of Macroeconomics (Very Wonkish)The God That SuckedBingaman tells the truth about gas prices, is lonely in doing soAmerica: You keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means.It's School Admissions Season in New York City. Does your 18-month-…
mikethemadbiologist | March 24, 2011Links for you. Science:
Study finds reports of domestic violence rise 10 percent after NFL upsets: NIH researchers suggest unexpected disappointment may underlie loss of control and violent behaviorA Guide to Smarter, Safer Antibiotic UseRat RaceWhy Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power
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The Painless Way to Reduce the DeficitHow to Write A Clichéd Love Song, With The Axis of AwesomeAfter creationists got stickers in textbooks, so did the existentialists...Snobbery and unions in academiaGlenn Greenwald: How the US Government Strikes Fear in Its Own Citizens and People…
mikethemadbiologist | March 23, 2011More, um, snow expected. Sigh. Links for you. Science:
Virophage, the virus eater (this is really cool)On Baby Harp Seals, Coal Plants and Nuclear PowerLet's do the numbers. Again. (every three Tomahaw cruise missiles equal two NIH R01 grants)Bacterial Burglary
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It's not structural unemployment, it's the corporate saving glut (must-read; yes, accounts must balance...)Japan disaster shows U.S. journalists unpreparedJust a Bad, Bad IdeaShaping State Laws With Little ScrutinyJapan: The Post-WW2 Rise, the 1980s Peak, and the Decline - A Simple TheoryWhy Teachers Like Me Support…
mikethemadbiologist | March 22, 2011Links for you. Science:
Geographic variation in human penis sizeIgnorance of the way review goes down is a dereliction of duty, NIH. Out of options: A surprising culprit in the nuclear crisis
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How Bill Gates misinterprets ed factsMiss Grundy Was Fired Today. Once deified, now demonized, teachers are under assault from union-busting Republicans on the right and wealthy liberals on the left. And leading the charge from all directions is a woman most famous for losing her job: the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. (far too kind to Rhee, but worth the read anyway)…
mikethemadbiologist | March 21, 2011It's...snowing. Links for you. Science:
The Lionfish Is Delicious. And it needs to die.Glimpses of the Fourth Domain?Charting the Human Cost of Different Types of Energy
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On Political Talk Shows, Liberals Can't Finish Their--Beyond AusterityThe NYT Gives Voice to the Educated Ignorant YoungDoes the pharmaceutical industry exaggerate their R&D costs?Pinching has cut 1,050 city jobsDeath By a Single GOP Cut? The scary consequences of slashing the CDC's immunization fundingAnti-Gay State Senator's Secret Gay Life Is Revealed In Bribery Indictment (I don't care how cynical you are,…
mikethemadbiologist | March 20, 2011There's a big parade today. But if you're not going, then here are some links for you. Science:
Genome Assembly InformationHerds on the Street: Why messaging traders are like scared fishShark Cleaning Stations IdentifiedFelisa Wolfe-Simon (of arsenic infamy) is no more convincing in person than in printThe story behind the story of my new #PLoSOne paper on "Stalking the fourth domain of life"
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Book Squad 911: When your library's underwater, who you gonna call?Report from Central Falls, RI: How Do You Change a School's "Culture?"Why Do We Hate Rebecca Black?Grant Hill on the Fab Five…
mikethemadbiologist | March 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
The Electric Taxi Company You Could Have Called in 1900Glimpses of the Fourth Domain?Natural-Born Homophobes?
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Tripped Up At The Finish Line: The Perils Of Unemployment After 50San Francisco to Start Smart Parking Management Trial SoonAnnual Mis-Reporting on Graduation RatesTimes paywall (this is the smartest solution to making online journalism profitable)Red light camera nabs drivers for blocking crosswalk, rolling right on redThe Ethics of The Quote
mikethemadbiologist | March 18, 2011Woozy is the city of Boston recovering from St. Patrick's Day. Links for you. Science:
Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore's law apply to solar cells?Why are there no (or almost no) disease-causing Archaea?For Whom the Cell Mutates: The Origins of Genetic QuirksHog Farmers Overuse Antibiotics, Government Data ShowGobsmacked by germ theory denialism. Again.Send in the clowns (gotta love homeopaths)
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GOP not doing a good job of hiding agenda on Head Start programDeath of the Anti-GonzoThe F-35: A Weapon That Costs More Than AustraliaNFL lockout: Owners get the keys to stadiums, fans…
mikethemadbiologist | March 17, 2011Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day with...links? Science:
No Face, but Plants Like Life Too (if plants had vocal chords, they would be SCREAMING)Ocean AcidificationAlien vs. Predator: Biocontrol EditionOlder female elephants are wiser matriarchs
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Tax Haven USA attracts over $3 trillion in foreign dirty money (my guess is that much of it isn't tax avoidance, but illegally acquired-gains)How House GOP spending cuts would add up to more spending laterThose Bastards Stole My Meth! (about many conservatives sudden horror at the movement they helped spawn)Whistling Past the Ruins: The "…
mikethemadbiologist | March 16, 2011Lots of thermonukular links! Science:
Nuclear OverreactorsNuclear energy 101: Inside the "black box" of power plants Sleep is More Important than FoodDTC, FDA, regulation, etc. (I don't agree, but different point of view)Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
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Burning down your house to generate heat (must-read)Power Concedes Nothing Without a DemandEventually Everyone Who Disagrees with Them is the EnemyHow the US Press Corps Lost Its WayClosing the Talent Gap. (about teacher pay)Justifying Progressive Tax Rates (the first paragraph will make you snicker)
mikethemadbiologist | March 15, 2011Links for you. Science:
Are Grad Students Smart?Taxonomy: The naming crisisAre antibiotics making our kids fat?Wind Power Without the Blades: Big PicsArsenic life, four months later: pay no attention to the internet
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James O'Keefe and Journalistic MalpracticeA child couldn't paint that - can people tell abstract art from a child's or chimp's work?The record needs breaking very soon! (about budget deficits)Due to his emotional blockage, David Brooks can't tell the truthDropping Rocks: Los AngelesThe Fukushima legacy
mikethemadbiologist | March 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
Everybody Thinks ScientificallyPublication 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)
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Fareed Zakaria Is Upset Because the Government Spends So Much More on Each Rich Person Than on Each ChildTeam Sex Is Dirty and their false assumptionsIf you don't already hate investment bankersThe Forbes 400 vs. Everybody ElseReal medicineFive Social Security Non-MythsStraight talk from a Green Line attendant (this is awesome)Greed is good…
mikethemadbiologist | March 13, 2011I like springing forward in the long run, but hate the day we do it. Oh well. Links for you. Science:
Drug-resistant bacteria: To humans from farms via foodTeaching Ambiguity and the Scientific MethodBudget cuts at the NIH: Department of nose-cutting, face-spiting (for a layman, gets most of the NIH grant stuff right)How I got to know thunder thighs, the dinosaur with a fearsome kick
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The New York City Bike Lane Backlash is Completely IrrationalAs history unfolds in Wisconsin, Smithsonian sends curatorWhy I Had an AbortionM.I.T. Economist David Autor Shows Soaring Demand for…
mikethemadbiologist | March 12, 2011Sunny. Kinda warm. Seems like a good reason for links. Science:
Small Beetles Massacre The Rockies' Whitebark PinesWhy the grass is always greener once you hit grad schoolNuclear ReactorsA More Ancient World: Bird Evolution for Birders Part II (WARNING! Super long and photo rich)
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Some Thoughts On The Expanding Service Industry: Nickel and Dimed, Decent Jobs, Pity-Charity Liberalism.Did the Singularity Already Happen?Who reaps the rewards of productivity? A 10% increase in productivity since 2008 is enough to cancel concerns about the deficit. But who gains is the crucial questionI'…
mikethemadbiologist | March 11, 2011Links for you. Science:
Corner piecePalm Oil Plantations Equal DeforestationElephants give each other a helping trunkWhat Killed Europe's Hyenas?High (school) honors
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Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America' (Good for Klein. I'm so sick of this self-righteous heartland bullshit)Ross Douthat sells sex and young people way too shortDogg DaysOur Serious IntellectualsWe're doomed!Responsible RetirementLate Night: Rich People are Oppressed