Wednesday Links

By mikethemadbiologist on March 3, 2010.

Happy Wednesday. Links fahr ya. Science:

Thoughts on how to pick a graduate school
Answering "scientific" arguments of animal rights extremists
New players in sequencing debut at AGBT
Do Scientists Want to Bridge Science and Society?
The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation

Other:

New York Times Article on Myth of "Racial Bias and Abortion" Omits Critical Analyses
The war on health care access
Announcing The New Tea Party Mascot: Slow Moe, The Tired Randian Squirrel
Ask DrugMonkey: Will you comment for attribution?
Why Rahm's historical revisionism is dangerous for the Democratic party
Unemployment Compensation has Broad Based Benefits
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
Deaths Rising for Lack of Insurance, Study Finds

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Quantitative genetics strikes back! (?)

The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation:

Genetic draft - selection is stochastic, sometimes....

Over the past month or so I've been blogging chapter 5 of Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts & Case Studies.

FOXP2, language & Neandertals

The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals:

Casual Labor Day: Our readers' "creative" song interpretations

It's Labor Day, the kids are home from school, and Greta has to work (why is it that only professors and manual laborers work on Labor Day?), so I hope you're not expecting to see much serious thinking on CogDaily today.

What was scientific about that bat and alcohol consumption study you posted?
What exactly was the purpose of doing that test? to see if they could drink you under the table?

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