Why Is the TEM-1 Beta-Lactamase So Common?
One word: ampicillin.
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July 31, 2008
One word: ampicillin.
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July 30, 2008
A possible way to reduce virulent E. coli on farms.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 3 Comments •
July 29, 2008
Do campaign reporters routinely huff airplane glue? Because that's the only explanation for this level of stupidity.
Posted by Mike at 11:05 AM • 4 Comments •
July 28, 2008
Who woulda thunk it? To obtain reliable scores with a precision of 0.01, a proposal would require 38,416 reviewers.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 5 Comments •
July 27, 2008
Category: Religion
Getting the power of God without God.
Posted by Mike at 11:56 AM • 10 Comments •
July 26, 2008
are stupid morons together.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 14 Comments •
July 25, 2008
Chloroquine therapy leads to increased ciprofloxacin resistance. This is why we need new classes of antimalarials that kill malaria in novel ways.
Posted by Mike at 10:05 AM • 5 Comments •
July 24, 2008
Using Sizzle's logic, economists are to blame for the misunderstandings surrounding Social Security.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 5 Comments •
July 22, 2008
Category: Economics
Matt Taibbi describes the intersection of crony capitalism and economic inequality.
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 5 Comments •
July 21, 2008
There are a lot fewer 'real' evangelicals that we're led to believe.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 9 Comments •
July 20, 2008
Category: Iraq
...and you'll be surprised who said that.
Posted by Mike at 11:40 AM • 4 Comments •
July 19, 2008
Category: Bloggity Blog
Go check it out.
Posted by Mike at 5:11 PM • 1 Comments •
Obama has strong support among every denomination except for the Orthodox, where McCain cleans up. But, like every other political poll, there's no way to find the correlations.
Posted by Mike at 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •
July 18, 2008
at least in Houston, Texas. No transit system, whether it be rail, automobile, or aviation, can survive without massive subsidies.
Posted by Mike at 11:08 AM • 8 Comments •
July 17, 2008
Olivia Judson's right: get rid of the term Darwinism. Unfortunately, the creationist morons won't agree.
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 4 Comments •
July 16, 2008
In some conservative circles, claiming a genetic basis for intelligence is all the rage. Thankfully, one prominent conservative isn't doing so.
Posted by Mike at 4:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Mandating crony capitalism is just as bad, if not worse than healthcare 'socialism.'
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 2 Comments •
July 15, 2008
Randy Olson's Sizzle isn't bad, but it's not that good either.
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July 14, 2008
seven years later?
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 2 Comments •
July 13, 2008
the Crazy Twenty-Sevens.
Posted by Mike at 10:56 AM • 4 Comments •
July 12, 2008
The Washington Post deathwatch continues.
Posted by Mike at 11:12 AM • 4 Comments •
July 11, 2008
After watching the Weather Channel for a while, you actually start to worry about that cold front moving through some other part of the country. Well, I've got an even better way to drive yourself nuts about scary things that won't affect you.
Posted by Mike at 12:18 PM • 2 Comments •
July 10, 2008
Jonathan Eisen has an informatics pipeline for analysis of 16S rRNA sequence. The Mad Biologist has opinions and questions.
Posted by Mike at 11:09 AM • 6 Comments •
July 9, 2008
More DHS follies. In this case, what we have here is a failure to communicate. From a Californian living near the wildfires (the good folks at skippy don't like capital letters):...
Posted by Mike at 10:55 AM • 4 Comments •
July 8, 2008
Money is fungible, so how is the government not supporting sectarian dogma?
Posted by Mike at 10:57 AM • 6 Comments •
July 7, 2008
Category: Publishing
The anger can largely be reduced to one word: Elsevier.
Posted by Mike at 11:00 AM • 4 Comments •
July 6, 2008
I'm surprised that I haven't seen a spate of posts from certain quarters proclaiming that the Lenski-Schlafly dustup is good for creationists.
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 19 Comments •
July 5, 2008
stop rapists over here.
Posted by Mike at 5:27 PM • 0 Comments •
July 4, 2008
What's the incentive for writing a non-peer reviewed book chapter?
Posted by Mike at 10:51 AM • 1 Comments •
July 3, 2008
If you're not for the pornographers, then the terrorists win? Or something.
Posted by Mike at 2:50 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Worms
Do parasitic worms lessen inflammatory bowel disease?
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 5 Comments •
July 2, 2008
Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin is a true hero without any doubt. But would that make him a good president?
Posted by Mike at 4:39 PM • 1 Comments •
Natural selection can be a result of human activities.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 10 Comments •
July 1, 2008
How mathematical epidemiology can be used to better understand bee colony collapse.
Posted by Mike at 5:19 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Terrorism
Wasn't DHS supposed to stop terrorists?
Posted by Mike at 4:37 PM • 4 Comments •
Who woulda thunk it?
Posted by Mike at 10:51 AM • 10 Comments •
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