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By mikethemadbiologist on February 13, 2010.

Happy Saturday. Links for you. Science:

Robot Snowplow from Japan Eats Up Snow, Poops Out Bricks
Immunization for Addiction: the Cocaine Vaccine
Why are demented women still getting mammograms?
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
Is the Evolution Debate Over?
Parsing NIH's 2011 Budget: Is Big Science Up, Small Science Down?

Other:

Ben Nelson Wants College Kids to Pay for Nebraska Jobs
Will the Real Pam Tebow Story Please Stand Up?
Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car
The Eternal Delusions of the Right-Wing Mind
Robert Samuelson Doesn't Know About the Social Security Tax
Here's Looking at You
Towards A World of Smaller Books

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Ah, the liquid glass. You can easily smell hype over it, along with fine particles of silicon dioxide eager to enter your lungs causing silicosis and whatnot.

They are also my concurrents. Silver nanoparticles FTW!

By Gabriel (not verified) on 13 Feb 2010 #permalink
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