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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:
- eigenFACTOR has a whole buncha shiny, new buttons to push.
- ScienceBlogling Razib makes a very important point about how heritable a trait is: heritability is always dependent on the environmental and genetic contexts.
- David Lindorff details the new security regulations that NASA scientists are facing.
- teacherken talks about the negative effect that mandatory standardized tests are having on learning. Since much of science isn't mandated either...well, you connect the dots.
- ScienceBlogling Bora has the definitive roundup of views of PRISM, the latest attempt to enrich scientific publishers at the expense of the taxpayer.
- With a post title like "Soniferous Toadfish", what more could you ask for?
- The phylogenetics of the binturong--one of the stinkest mammals around.
- More silliness from Kentucky about the Creationist Museum.
Other stuff:
- Commandante Kos is right: the 'big three' Democratic presidential candidates refuse to answer the most basic question about the Iraqi Occupation.
- Paul Krugman argues that when it comes to governing, it's Katrina all the time.
- Any time Shakes goes after Phyllis Schlafly, it's worth a read.
- Grand Moff Texan warns us about the post-Labor Day roll out of our invasion of Iran.
- Glenn Greenwald on the social conservatives' "politically exploitative, cost-free morality."
- Lots of people seem to be touchy right now. Here's one explanation for why that is.
- maha says were on the Road to Serfdom; I would rather be on the Train to Skaville. Oh well.
- Mark Schmitt describes the real hypocrisy of Idaho Republicans: their reliance on government handouts.
- driftglass has his own unique perspective on the U.S. failure to train the Iraqi police force.
- This Labor Day don't forget the most desperate of us all: the extremely rich.
- David Corn describes an Iraqi report describing how Iraqi corruption is crippling our efforts to restore some semblance of order to Iraq.
- Eric Alterman asks about our media, "what can possibly be the argument for giving people junk they don't even desire?"
- Matt Stoller describes the human cost of our healthcare system.
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