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Today is World Health Day, and the World Health Organization is using the occasion to draw attention to a serious global health problem: the rapid spread of bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The development and widespread use of antibiotics counts as a public health triumph, as infections that…
Illustration by David Parkins, Nature Today, Nature released a news feature by Geoff Brumfiel on the downturn in mainstream science media. We've all known that this is happening; the alarms become impossible to ignore when Peter Dysktra and his team at CNN lost their jobs last year. For mainstream…
Links for you. Science: More on the mega lab Bats are worth billions What Is This Fallacy Called? Hold Onto Your Floppy Disks, Nerdz! Other: BANANA REPUBLIC The Real Housewives of Wall Street: Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley…
It's a grey, shitty Sunday. Here are some links that probably won't cheer you up. Science: Primary care antibiotic resistance for common infections The Arc of Evolution Is Long and Rarely Bends Towards Advantageous Alleles: Why Does Popular Science Ignore Neutral Theory? Two modest proposals Are…