Tuesday Links

By mikethemadbiologist on March 16, 2010.

There's this big ball of fire in the sky. It scares me, so how about some links? Science:

The language of elephants
Anti-HIV properties of... bananas?
Journalistic malpractice on global warming
The value of "this is cool" science stories
Measles week, part II: Emerging disease
NASA finds shrimp dinner on ice beneath Antarctica
MRSA research round-up: hospitals, vitamins, pets

Other:

Library branches won't hang separately: Backers form citywide group to fight for them; will oppose Liberty Mutual tax cut
Father FOXy
Beyond Helter Skelter
The Trouble With Textbooks
Excerpts From the New Texas History Textbooks
Two Pictures Tell the Story on Health Care Debate
Economics of Weblogging...
We Wouldn't Want To Be Simplistic And Naive, Now, Would We?
Strategic default: In come the waves again
Here's an Idea . . .since the Geithner-Summers team seems to be looking for them.

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You dont have to be an HIV Denier to be an HIV Kook

Im going to have to add a 'C' to 'How kooks are made'-- The easy answers are rarely the right answers. Heres what I mean-- Lets say scientists do a high-throughput screening on a whole bunch of compounds and find a protein made in bananas inhibits HIV-1 infection. The 'easy' conclusions you make…

Anti-HIV properties of... bananas?

[insert random collection of Ray Comfort jokes here] Well, this is a welcome bit of good news! A lectin isolated from bananas is a potent inhibitor of HIV replication. Lectins are proteins that bind to specific sugars. For example, in humans, lets say you are infected with Staphylococus aureus.…

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I'm old enough to remember when there was sun in the sky. Anyway, links for you. Science: Can we overfish the lionfish? Simpler Genome Sequencing (I'll believe it when I see it--nanopore technology is like Zeno's paradox, the spear never hits the wall) Hospital-Acquired Infections: Beating Back…

Thanks.

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