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Happy Tuesday! Here are some links for you. Science: Transmission, pathogenicity, virulence and vaccines, I. Transmission, pathogenicity, virulence and vaccines, part II. An Iconoclastic Endosymbiont Other: Obama, Don't Feed Me to the Insurance Companies. I Want Medicare. Liberal Bloc Rebels…
Some Tuesday links for you. Science: Amazon River Dolphins Being Slaughtered for Bait GPS from the 1920s Children and genomics - the underworld of DNA talent testing Other: How to Lose $1,100,000 in Irvine Real Estate Poll: Majority Of Americans Not Quite Sure What 'Progressive' Means Too Old For…
Needless to say, the political pundits were hilariously wrong about the New Hampshire primary. I won't hypothesize about what actually happened, other than to say that I think many voters here wanted a longer primary. They didn't want an Obama coronation in the beginning of January. This says less…
One way to understand the collapse of the real estate bubble (and our current financial mess) is as a massive case of bad decision-making. The mistakes, of course, were made by many different people and organizations: the investment banks who bought subprime debt, the credit rating agencies who…