Wednesday Links

By mikethemadbiologist on May 19, 2010.

We're having a very wet Wednesday. Time for links. Science:

A Piece of Internet History: Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups
Brand-new research: Vast increase MRSA, CA-MRSA diagnoses among kids
CREDIBILITY
Troubling New Research on MRSA in Kids
Knowledge and Use of Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Data at a University Teaching Hospital
Near misses fuel gambling addiction

Other:

Hermeneutic Circle Jerk
NPF: WHY ED HATES RADIOHEAD, AND MANY OTHER THINGS
When you're an ed-deformist, who needs evidence?
Don't rush to link teacher evaluation to student achievement
More On Liberal Values And The Ruth Institute
Shut Up You Stupid Woman : Revisited.
How to attack the mortgage-interest tax deduction
A perfect storm for unemployment in June
Pornland, Oregon: Child Prostitution in Portland
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Troubling New Research on MRSA in Kids

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Over at Shakespeare's Sister, I came across this link to an announcement of a new Chlorox disinfectant that is "a one-step, labor-saving solution for killing both strains of MRSA." There seems to be some confusion here. Let's start with the basics. MRSA is the bacterium methicillin resistant…

MRSA, Needle Exchange, and the War on Drugs

There is a winner in the War on Drugs: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA. A recent article in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology reached the following conclusion: Injecting drug users accounted for 49% of CA-MRSA infections but only 19% of the HA-MRSA infections (…

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