Links 6/24/10

By mikethemadbiologist on June 24, 2010.

Links for you. Science

Worry grows over white-nose syndrome's widening reach among bats
Clinical trial conflict of interest for doctors
Does greater competition improve performance or increase cheating?
NIH to examine payback on research grants
Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis
The internet: Everything you ever need to know

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Long-Term debt--it's ALL about health care, and we'd be fine if we spent like ANYONE else
Why It's Different This Time for Housing: Even with sharply lower home prices and mortgage rates, excess household debt will constrain new borrowing and spending.
How Much Oil Will Be Wasted In The Deepwater Spill?
Hoboken Launches First Citywide Car-Sharing Program in U.S.
Joe Barton Just Wants to Have His Life Back
Dangerous lying idiots

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