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By mikethemadbiologist on June 20, 2010.

It's a stormy Sunday. Might as well read links. Science:

Legionnaires' Disease Linked with Wiper Fluid
The Human Genome Project: Hype meets reality
Reebok inoculates workers after at least 1 gets measles (but VAKSEENZ R EVUL!!!)
Pan-resistant?? The rise of Acinetobacter
In which I have seen the future of science, and it is female

Other:

Memo to the President: No one is asking you to be Superman
The numbers game and education
Merit pay for teachers
Old Writers
Before the Sierra Club's New Director Invites Guests Over, He Needs to Clean House
Psychoanalyzing the Tea Partiers
What Would It Take to Fully Invest in the Northeast Corridor?

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