Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | February 16, 2011I am linkbot, hear me roar. Links for you. Science:
Views of an Unfunded Established ProfessorEgyptian science community celebrates a free EgyptUA Experts Determine Age of Book 'Nobody Can Read'Cell Phone Towers To Be Replaced By Tiny Antennas
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The Trouble With Foul Trouble (Syracuse-Georgetown)Social Security and Pie!My Governor, as usual, Fails Math"Taliban Dan's" Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard's Authoritarian Subculture (this is the theopolitical right with which we are supposed to be civil and compromise)Is This Beijing's Suburban Future? (meanwhile, in the wealthiest metro region,…
mikethemadbiologist | February 15, 201154F yesterday, 25F today. Oh well, we still have links. Science
Q&A: The insidious -- and incestuous -- risks of genetic testingHow to Photograph Army AntsWhy havent we cured cancer yeeeeeet?Friday Sprog Blogging: science fair experimental design.What would you do with $500 million? (interesting post about research in New Zealand)
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Deficit Hawks Down: The Misconstrued "Facts" Behind Their HypeMichelle Rhee, first-year teacherLOW HANGING. AND DIMINUTIVE. (about Republican budget cuts)NPF: THE LAND OF SMILING MILKMEN (the 1950s must have involved some serious drug use...)The anti-…
mikethemadbiologist | February 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
Fear and Its Consequences: Why States Should Get Tough with VaccinationsIf you love nature, move to the cityNew antibiotics: Not many and fewer all the timeResearchers are punks: The fields of science and punk rock share some surprising similarities, according to the people who love both (I'm more of an old-school ska/rockabilly guy myself)
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No Pension, No ChanceIt's Not PersonalBuried by Bad MortgagesDiscover The Network Out To Crush Our Public WorkersAmericans love government spending -- when you start to talk specificsWorld's Only Superpower Has 32…
mikethemadbiologist | February 13, 2011Links for you. Science:
Women "computers" of World War II (great post, but no reason to put computers in quotes--at the time, computing was a full-time job)Opposing industrial-scale pig farming -- in EuropeOne database to hold them allAnglerfish: Lophius piscatoriusRavens stressed by 'gang life'
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New Video Shows Planned Parenthood Employees Doing Their JobAdbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down tooSpeculation is the main driver behind higher world food prices - the evidence is there in the dataThe Wrong Crisis: The FCIC forgets the housing bubbleTyler Cowen and "…
mikethemadbiologist | February 12, 2011Sunny and above freezing! Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
What is systematics and what is taxonomy?Less Is More: Sequencing on the BenchtopNew Zealand scientists record 'biodiversity breakdown'Toddler obesity tied to introduction of solid foods (Does a really good job of putting 'breaking findings' in context--wish this happened more often)Some Important and Weighty Stuff in Statistics
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The Malcolm Gladwell Book GeneratorDirty MoneyWith friends like these.....White House throws OSHA under the busMore on Omar Suleiman, Alleged Hands-On TorturerVision: How Small, Mostly…
mikethemadbiologist | February 10, 2011Links for you. Science:
Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains: British team's success with jab that targets proteins common to every type of flu virusSexual discrimination against women in science may be institutionalOn Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray From Lesson PlanScientific Perspiration
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Crooked Morality Cops.The local view on AOL/HuffPo: we're still where innovation is happeningBad News for Charter SchoolsWill the Three Birds Sing? (Republican freshman congressman David Rivera will probably be the first to join Tom DeLay in the hoosegow)The Boring Centrist…
mikethemadbiologist | February 9, 2011Links for you. Science:
Equations that Spell Disaster: Researchers are pinpointing the factors that combine to produce complex diseases.What are army ants?Angry Sunday rant on behalf of my friends in the Minority Academic Ghetto*Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in AcademiaWill you still love me if I don't win the Nobel prize?Review of data supports virus link to diabetes
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On not passing the Turing Test (I hate that Turkish spam)Does Behavioral Economics Undermine the Welfare State?Economists and IncentivesSarah Palin Trademark Refused. Why? She Didn't Sign The ApplicationHow…
mikethemadbiologist | February 8, 2011Rain, but no snow. Links for you. Science:
A crustacean genome at lastBerg defends NCATSOysters disappearing worldwideUnraveling Arthropoda
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The Most Feminist Place in the World2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police's Methods FirsthandThe courage of journalists, the cowardice of LimbaughRush OwwwMaster and Slave MoralityLearning To Walk: Fear, Shame And Your Underwater Mortgage (I don't see why shame is involved; this is a property transaction, nothing more)Why do some countries' economies grow faster?
mikethemadbiologist | February 7, 2011Links for you. Science:
Microbial LandscapesIN WHICH GALILEO PERSECUTES THE POPE.It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are LaggingDisease v. culture: Botulism in the Arctic
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How To Get Someone With Friends In Egypt To Lose His TemperGender divides in Philosophy and other disciplinesGeorgia Republican Bobby Franklin: You say you're a rape victim? Uh-uh -- not so fast. Prove it!Returning the Blessings of an Immortal LifeMegan McArdle is Always Wrong (Again!): Kitchen History EditionNo Prayers for David KatoThe Siege of Planned ParenthoodFive myths about Ronald Reagan's legacy"But…
mikethemadbiologist | February 6, 2011I hear there is some kind of major professional sporting event today. Until it starts, here are some links for you. Science:
Oral Contraceptives and Weight Gain: Data and AnecdotesParallel Parking Better For Pedestrian HealthIs Work Related Stress An Economic Disaster In Waiting?Let's get rid of bad teachers, right? Does that include those who water down or completely avoid teaching evolution?
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The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed (one more reason not to use it)Sam Houston, We Have a ProblemMobilizing the JoblessThe Founding Fathers Supported Socialized MedicineQuit…
mikethemadbiologist | February 5, 2011At least, it's not snowing. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
This post is about vaginasâââââ93 Percent of Wall Street Journal's Climate Op-Eds Misrepresent ScienceLand fizzing like soda pop: farmer says CO2 injected underground is leaking (I want my thorium-powered reactors)Scientists join protests on streets of Cairo to call for political reform
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Deriving Their Just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...The Civic Republican Roots of the Individual MandateAyn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But Grabbed Social Security and Medicare When She Needed ThemWhy are We…
mikethemadbiologist | February 4, 2011Ugh. What a week. Links for you. Science:
Perspective on the Parenting Debate: Rich Parents Don't Matter?Children's Genetic Potentials Are Subdued by PovertyThe shape of social progress - I
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Too Bad Facts Don't Deter Anti-ChoicersThe danger of certainty (it really is astonishing just how ignorant some atheists are of religion and religious people)Update on conditions in Ireland...another letter from IrelandFollow the Money (like Yves Smith, I find it perplexing that many people can't bring themselves to realize that some people wanted to sell loans that would fail)Vernon Smith on…
mikethemadbiologist | February 3, 2011I really, really wish it would snow. Regardless, here are some links. Science.
Throw the snow in the Harbor! (not convinced about the environmental impacts; I don't mind shipping some of them back to the burbs)Bats in Borneo roost in carnivorous pitcher plantsThe NIH reduces proposed budgets to fund more grantsLess punishment, less crime (80% of addicts still drug free after one year seems like a good intervention to me...)
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Paul Ryan's Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part OneReggae: the sound that revolutionised Britain. Punk may have got all the headlines, but reggae proved vital in…
mikethemadbiologist | February 2, 2011How many links would a linkbot link if a linkbot could bot links? Dunno, but here are some links. Science:
Development of resistant Staphylococcus aureus over timeOne of the first published accounts of sexual selection in koalas: What does it take for koala boys to get lucky?Do Not Eat the "Paleo" Diet ("In the reality based community, we know that dinosaurs and humans were separated by 60 million years, and we don't adopt people as lifestyle gurus who believe otherwise.")Nabokov was right - so was Stephen Jay Gould wrong?The Enema of Your Enemy is Your Friend
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Too young not to work,…
mikethemadbiologist | February 1, 2011Links for you. Science:
So I have this data, now what?Jeremy Berg Demystifies the Funding Decision Process at NIGMSAmoebas in drinking water: a double threatInvasive Bees Ravage Native Bees in Vicious Death Match (and here)
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Rachel Maddow: In America Today, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower Would Be Bernie Sanders in the U.S. SenateNSTAR Green Undergoes Major Rate IncreaseFrom quality to quantity - and maybe back againAnother Day in the Blue Collar LifeA call to protest ignites a call to arms: The reaction to Frances Fox Piven's essay urging the unemployed to protest for change…
mikethemadbiologist | January 31, 2011Links for you. Science:
First, Amoeba Farming. Next, THE WORLD.N.R.A. Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists SayGenetics will not be used to abort straights OR gaysHow The National Science Foundation Drives US InnovationSeparating Fact & Fiction: News about the proposed National Center for Advancing Translational SciencesJumbo Shrimps: Why Mega-Mammals Still Looked Puny Next to the Biggest Dinosaurs
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Anti-Missourian best-sellersPresident Romney vs. President Obama: Had Mitt Romney won the 2008 election, what would be different today? (economically, nothing; we would probably have…
mikethemadbiologist | January 30, 2011Links for you. Science:
Gender and blogging (and everything else)Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution Is VindicatedOf course scientists can communicateSend in the Creationist Clowns and Watch Science Education SufferWhy University Scientists Do Not Discuss Religion
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Hey You Men Who Yell "Nice Tits": STFUIs President Obama Playing Peter Peterson's Budget Game?When Big is FAILSetting new records in the art of callousness towards women (I can't stand these guys)Boston: Then and nowWrite A Negative Story About The NRA, Get Racist Hate Mail
mikethemadbiologist | January 28, 2011The snow berms now reach my shoulder. Ugh. Links for you. Science:
Phylogeny rules:Why P-values are EvilBelly Button Microbes: The First PeekPolar bear's epic nine day swim in search of sea ice (gee whiz amazing, but very sad in the context of global warming)
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TFA Founder Wendy Kopp: Don't Release Teacher Value-Added Scores to NewspapersThe Antidote to Deficit Hysteria - the Financial Transactions TaxHomework (don't really agree about homework, but the point regarding poverty is critical)10 flamethrowing contraptions that'll keep those dang kids off your lawnAyn Rand, parasiteBay…
mikethemadbiologist | January 27, 2011Big...ball...of...fire...in...sky. Must retreat to the safety of links. Science
Coral Bleaching Prompts Thailand to Close Diving SitesWhat You Need to Know About Infectious DiseaseThe Microbial MetagenomeHow to Explain Science in Blog Posts (#scio11)The Academia Ghetto
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Stealing the ConstitutionThe Best Healthcare News You Didn't Hear This WeekThe Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End PovertyThousands of Post Offices, "Lifelines" of Rural Communities, Set to CloseThe Market and Inequality: Progressives Lose When They Accept the Right's FramingDeath Threat for a Palin CriticTwitter And…
mikethemadbiologist | January 26, 2011Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this blogger from links. Science:
Leapin' BlenniesScience Online 2011: Even when we want something, we need to hide it.CloVR: A genomics tool for automated and portable sequence analysis using Virtual Machines and Cloud computingSolar car speed record smashed
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The Blue Collar LifeBeacon Hill: It's Time for 2 + 2The Data Shows that State "Beggar Thy Neighbor" Policies Don't Work.NYT: "You Think Houses Are a Slow Sell? Try a Yacht" (the last sentence is brilliant)Mass Supreme Court to Consider Whether Buyers Out of Faulty…