Here's some good reading for your long weekend. Science:
How global warming sealed the fate of the world's coral reefs
Great Barrier Reef facing 'catastrophic damage' from climate change
Great Barrier Reef faces catastrophe
200-pound snake killed in Okeechobee adds to mounting python woes
Other:
A Missing Ingredient in Health-Care Coverage
The Gestapo Precedent for "EITs"
Confusion is not the word you're looking for
The system Republicans and other crazies are defending
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Deep coral biologists like myself are continually looking to shallow reefs for applicable paradigms.
For Darwin's Birthday Weekend, a reposting of my review of David Dobb's Reef Madness:
Here's a video from the Guardian on the current status of the reef:
He was in 1952, anyway. By way of Oliver Willis, from Glenn Hauman: