Sunday Links

By mikethemadbiologist on January 25, 2009.

Heckuva week. Science first:

What will January 20th do for science-based medicine?

Growing Taste for Reef Fish Sends Their Numbers Sinking

Ah, them gold rush days!

Lack of Sleep Increases Susceptibility to the Common Cold

Carnivorous dung beetle shuns dung and decapitates millipedes

Other:

Retooling an economy based on the endless buying and selling of toys and gizmos

The Beautiful and the Clueless

Need to fill your CareFirst Blue Cross prescription? Good luck.

Oscar insults from MSNBC's Courtney Hazlett

EVERY PUNDIT A KING! Uh-oh! A famous film-maker--and a famous professor--wasted time about low-income ed

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