Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. mikethemadbiologist
  2. Thursday Links

Thursday Links

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user mikethemadbiologist
By mikethemadbiologist on October 8, 2009.

Merry Thursday! Here are some links for you. Science:

How to decide when to close a school because of swine flu

Protection Or Peril? Gun Possession Of Questionable Value In An Assault, Study Finds

E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection

Aquacalypse Now

Do Moderates Have a Responsibility to Be More Vocal in S&R Discussions? Josh Rosenau Answers

Other:

LaHood: "If You Don't Want an Automobile, You Don't Have to Have One"

The joint Post/Obama defense of the Patriot Act and FISA

Tony Perkins and White Supremacy

Don't ever try to Jew down an atheist.

Tags
Lotsa Links

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Radiacode Zero - A Powerful New Radiation Detector
  • MRSA Infections In Hospitals Are A Problem: This Simple Change Can Help
  • On The Annihilation Risk From AI
  • Why Does Anyone Still Get Married?
  • Epidemiology Reduced To Sounding Alarms About Fake Eyelashes

Science Codex

More by this author

Program Announcement: I'm Moving
September 1, 2011
I've dropped some hints in the past that my relationship with ScienceBlogs would be...altered. Well, I've decided to leave. Mostly, it had to do with the issue of pseudonymity, although I'm very excited to hang out my own shingle once again. I don't want to rehash the issue of pseudonymity,…
Note to Unions: This Is Not How You Build a Coalition
September 1, 2011
The old saw that 'we hang together or we get hung separately' is a perfect description of how the left has disintegrated into irrelevance. Too often, groups will focus on modest gains for their own narrow constituency, while selling out other allies. Over the long term, each component of the…
Links 8/31/11
August 31, 2011
Links for you. Science: Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the Amazon What do accommodationists do about creationist politicians? I've Been Told You Can Get Flu From the Flu Shot: False! Federal Work Suspension of Leading Arctic Scientist Ended as Investigation of His…
Meet the New New Math, Same As the Old New Math? What We Can Learn from Finland
August 31, 2011
Recently, The New York Times published an op-ed calling for curricular changes in K-12 math education: Today, American high schools offer a sequence of algebra, geometry, more algebra, pre-calculus and calculus (or a "reform" version in which these topics are interwoven). This has been codified by…
Links 8/30/11
August 30, 2011
Links for you. Another Scientist Calls Out Sen. Coburn's Misleading, Juvenile "Report" XMRV: ITS EVERYWHERE! UUUUUGH! ITS IN MY RACCOON WOUNDS! AND MY QIAGEN COLUMNS! Coulter Goes All Science-y in Bid to Disprove Evolution Yet another bad day for the anti-vaccine movement 2011 Antibiotics: Killing…

More reads

Plagiarism or convergent evolution?
Thylacine Dingo Comparison Carl Buell In Slate, Matt Gaffney explains how the constraints of a given system - in this case crossword puzzles - may lead to suspiciously similar yet independent solutions. Gaffney wrote a Poe-themed crossword with the elements BRAVE NEW WORLD, INTRAVENOUS DRIP, CONTRAVENE, COBRA VENOM, and VENTNOR AVENUE (all of which have "raven" embedded in them). He was very…
Some like it hot - receptors for capsaicin and wasabi
To have an effect, a molecule must bind to a receptor and trigger a signal.  Studying a receptor's structure can give us insights about the way this triggering process works. Capsaicin is a fascinating molecule that puts the "pep" into peppers.  Curiously, the amount of capsaicin in a pepper is measured with a test devised in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville.  Dried peppers…
Should you get your PhD? (Synopsis)
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” -Benjamin Franklin It's graduate school acceptance season, and many people out there have big decisions coming up. Some of you will have questions about where to go to graduate school, while some will have questions about whether to go to graduate school. Image credit: Jorge Cham of PhD Comics. For those of you in the latter…

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.