Some Sunday Links
Category: Lotsa Links
Happy October! Here are some links for you. Science-related stuff firstest:
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September 30, 2007
Greenwald Asks and the Mad Biologist Answers
Category: News Media
Regarding political journalists, Glenn Greenwald asks why one would "want to become a political journalist and then spend most of their time engaged in this sort of petty, substance-free chatter about which campaign has inched ahead and which one has fallen behind every day." I have an answer.
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Republican Outreach to Jews Is Working Almost as Well as the Outreach to African Americans
When public figures badmouth Jews, um, we don't like that.
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September 29, 2007
Saturday Sermon: Maha on Non-Violence
Why are the failures of non-violent resistance always remembered, but the many failures of violent failure forgotten?
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NASA Scientists Are Terrorist Sexbots
Category: NASA
Because if NASA scientists do science, the terrorists win. Or something. The Republican Nanny State runs amok.
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September 27, 2007
Myanmar: This Is What Courage Really Looks Like
It's not like the movies.
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Intelligent Design Creationists: Still Liars
And, thankfully, the NY Times' Cornelia Dean calls the intelligent design creationists out on it
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Good Schools and 'Bad' Students
Category: Education
While resources are necessary for remedial education, they are not sufficient.
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September 26, 2007
Professional Wingnuts: IDiots and Gay-Haters
There's a lot of bucks to be made if you're a professional wingnut.
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More on Kuhnian Revolutions: the SteveG Edition
Hey, he's the one who brought up Imre Lakatos.
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September 25, 2007
Little Rock Remembered: The Problem We All Live With
Category: Racism
And there's still a long way to go.
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Right-Wing Militarists Beat Father of Marine
When you justify your beliefs based on authority, your beliefs are threatened, not by logic, but by an equal and countervailing authority. One can't have that, so one just beats the crap out of your opponent.
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September 24, 2007
Science Doesn't Have Kuhnian Revolutions Everyday
Regardless of the cause of paradigm shifts, the notion that they are the primary mode by which science operates seems to be prevalent. They're not.
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September 23, 2007
Quote of the Day: The Surge Edition
Because it's never too late to have lots of surgetastic goodness.
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Sunday Sermon: Books Are Weapons
Category: Books
...in the of ideas--one war I'll gladly get behind.
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September 22, 2007
Evolution, Truth, and Politics
A follow up to yesterday's blast from the past.
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September 21, 2007
Is Our Children Learning: Why Yglesias Is Was Wrong About Evolution
Let no one say I won't call out liberals when they're idiots about evolution.
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September 20, 2007
The Difference Between Good Science Reporters and Most Political Reports Is...
Category: News Media
most good science reporters like science. Most political reporters don't like governance.
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September 19, 2007
This Will Make the M.D.s' Heads Explode
Or maybe not? Should doctors be salaried workers?
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September 18, 2007
A Modest Proposal to Protect the Sanctity of Marriage
Just a thought.
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September 17, 2007
Some Good News on the College Loan Front
This is why elections have consequences: the Democrats have decided to increase the funding for college schloarships.
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September 14, 2007
Quote of the Day: Scientific Results Should Be Vetted First and Foremost...
by scientists, not journalists
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September 13, 2007
What's the Worst Feature of Bad Science Reporting?
Genomicron has a great satirical post about how to write a bad science story. So, I ask you, readers, which of these ten journalistic 'sins' is the worst?
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September 12, 2007
Iraq, Guilt, and Counter-Intuitive Polling
Category: Iraq
People are less likely to say that want to leave Iraq the worse they think the situation is. But this isn't surprising or counter-intuitive at all: it's called guilt.
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Philanthropy, Tax Deductions, and Art
To pose deductions for charitable contributions as a choice between helping the poor versus supporting the arts is a false choice.
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September 11, 2007
Homework (for You) While I'm Away
Category: Bloggity Blog
Because nothing says solemn commemoration like using the deaths of 3,000 people to sell the Surgegasmic Surge.
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Some Reflections on Sept. 11
For me, the most visceral images of that day weren't from NYC, but from DC.
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September 10, 2007
Iraq and the Catastrophic Failure of the U.S. Political System
What happens when the public overwhelmingly holds an opinion that isn't even represented in the government or among the Mandarin class? Tyranny.
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September 9, 2007
Some Sunday Links
Category: Lotsa Links
It's super surgetastic, surgegasmic (surgical?) Surging Sunday. Here are some links for you.
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The Statistics of the Surge
It's really hard to say that the surge is working: even where the trend is in the right direction (e.g., total civilains killed), it basically looks like the surge has only brought things back to where they were before they became really awful. For the other metrics, the only conclusion is that either it has had no effect (car bombs and IEDs) or has made things worse (mortar and rocket attacks).
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September 8, 2007
Now I'm Starting to Get Really Scared That We're Going to...
...attack Iran.
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September 7, 2007
Bee Colony Collapse Is Associated with a Virus
We don't know if the virus is the causal agent, but a recent Science paper used a metagenomics approach to find that bees from colonies that have collapsed are infected with a virus (and it's the same virus in different colonies).
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Democratic Voters: We Have Met the Enemy and...
he is us.
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September 6, 2007
Iraq: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
The statistics of getting shot in the head in Iraq. Or something.
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I See Demon Worshipers
Category: Demonic Possession
Actually, before I get to this post about people who believe in demonic possession, I have a very simple question.
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September 5, 2007
Sometimes, Phylogenetic Analysis Takes a Really Long Time
This analysis is never going to end (stupid GTR models).
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If You Have Had MRSA...
then please take this survey.
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September 4, 2007
Influenza and Low Hanging Fruit
Very few problems can be solved solely by throwing buckets of money at them. Annual influenza is one of those problems than can be solved that way.
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Shrimponomics and Lobsternomics
Category: Lobstah!
With resources that can be depleted, it's first supply that drives consumption, then demand. That's what the history of lobsternomics tells us, anyway.
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September 3, 2007
What a Tangled Web They Weave
First, rock snot. Now, giant spider webs that cover acres. One more screwy thing, and I'm stocking up on canned goods.
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The Labor Day Speech You Won't Hear
...or too much of anyway. One of the most eloquent speeches that I have ever heard was by Martin Luther King to striking sanitation workers. Take ten minutes and read it before you head out to the barbeque.
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U.S. Workers Are the World's Most Productive...
...but they don't need no stinkin' healthcare.
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September 2, 2007
Some Sunday Links
Category: Lotsa Links
It's the 'freshmen are invading Boston' links edition. By the way, if you're at the corner of Exeter and Boylston and you can't find the Prudential Center--which is right below the really tall building that has "PRUDENTIAL" on it--you are prima facie evidence that admissions standards are indeed slipping. To the links; science first:
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What's Up With Lucky Number Slevin?
Category: Movies
Why did this very good movie get virtually no exposure?
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September 1, 2007
"These Are Law-Abiding Citizens Who Did Everything They Were Told to Do"
One of the most shameful things about the destruction of New Orleans was the attempt to blame the victims.
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