Merry Tuesday. Links for you. Science:
Intensive care unit (ICU) infections can lengthen hospital stays
Hospital workers fired for refusing vaccinations
The science boys' club strikes again
Yet another nail in the coffin of the myth that the MMR vaccine causes autism
Solar Cell 40% Efficiency Breakthough, becomes Product Ready
MIT Breakthrough can generate electricity w ZERO CO2 atmospheric emissions from Natural Gas
In Pictures: Moose on the loose
Prejudice vs. biology - testosterone makes people more selfish, but only if they think it does
Other:
Ten Ways to Move the Budget Back Toward a Sustainable Path
Obama's Financiers Okay Extra $60 Billion for Pentagon
'I Stopped Denying People': Ex-Bank Of America CSR Tells All
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As you may know, Landsbanki, one of the three former Icelandic commercial banks, left a few billion euros in uninsured deposits lying around, when it collapsed in ignomy.
Mostly in the UK and Netherlands.
The Dutch are getting irate about this...
I have always scoffed at people who say there is only the Republicrat party in this country, but after reading this depressing piece by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone I'm not so sure.