Here are some links for you. Go read some science, you goddamn kids:
- I ask a question about the coming human microbiome projects. Give me an answer.
- Here are two posts about scientists and journalism.
- I also have some thoughts about evo devo.
- Here's an interesting take on the 'minimal microbe.'
- Why calculus matters.
- Dick Cheney's war on the environment.
- ScienceBlogling Jason Rosenhouse visits the Creationist Museum.
- The Bestest Exclusion Cage EVAH!
The other stuff:
- The must read post: tristero frames the abortion debate. More politics of abortion: what Waldman sez. While we're on the topic, Katha Pollitt has a helpful suggestion.
- Why is Giuliani defending a child-molesting priest?
- Here's what actually happens in a women's health clinic that performs abortions.
- Tyler Cowan argues that China's economy will go in the crapper in five to ten years.
- Some debunking of the cultural conservatives' claims that comprehensive sex ed curricula are 'error-filled.'
- El Jefe Maximo is destroying our national parks.
- Rick Perlstein discusses the emerging Democratic majority.
- I've always thought that a good bureaucrat is worth his or her weight in gold too.
- ScienceBlogling Razib takes down the phrase "Judeo-Christian."
- Someone other than the Mad Biologist [link] thinks that Bush's crocs are a fashion disaster (lighten up, it's called humor).
More like this
Forty years ago, the US Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that states could not ban first-trimester abortions.
One of the problems with denialists is that they simply can't accept that science doesn't conform to their ideology.
The July 28 edition of the Lancet has a superb editorial about the need for legal and safe abortion in the developing world, particularly in Latin America (I've snipped parts; italics mine):
Inspired by this Jeffrey Feldman post, I'm putting together a post about abortion, evolution, and the dislike by some scientists of framing.