Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls.
I'm excited about Glenn Beck's "I Have a Nightmare" Rally in DC this weekend (I'm sure my relatives in the area are not). Anyway, links. Science:
What the Egg Recall Says About Our Food Safety System (a surveillance success and regulatory failure)
Tara Parker-Pope and the New York Times Well Blog: Acupuncture woo takes over
Cheap PCR: new low cost machines challenge traditional designs
Greening the Big Apple
Other:
PBR aka "Symbolic Solidarity"
House Price Expectations
The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century
The Strange World of Wall Street Journal Commenters (good examples, but he misses the point: this is exclusionary identity politics, not a discussion about improving politics)
An optimistic diary (for once)
