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There's a Super Bowl to watch, but here are some links anyway. First, the science stuff: The terrifying predations of the Short Big-Eye. Public health notice: you're supposed to wash your hands with alcohol gel, not drink it. Russia has a outbreak of smelly, yellow snow. Maybe a giant dog was…
Just as we are preparing to wind up our marathon series of posts on a mathematical model of antiviral resistance, a new paper has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) with data on antiviral resistance from Japan, the country that uses more Tamiflu and Relenza (the two…
A paper has just been published that is a real wake up call. I am stunned more of us didn't think about this sooner. We all remember the Tamiflu frenzy that ensued in 2004 when people first realized the bird flu train might be coming down the tracks. There was a great deal of talk about how Tamiflu…
Over at Framing Science, Matt notes that the WaPo is running a series of pieces by historians putting Bush's presidency in historical context. Back in May 2004, History News Network reported that "eight in ten historians [...] rate the current presidency an overall failure." In particular, the …