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A Tuesday that feels like a Monday. Ugh. Links for you. Science: Opening scienceHomeopathy: Cure or Con?Local Health Department Costs Associated with Response to a School-Based Pertussis Outbreak --- Omaha, Nebraska, September--November 2008New User-friendly Resource Connects Human Genes To…
This is soooo funny. So funny it hurts. Ok, so maybe I've been guilty of one or two of these. Ok, maybe you have too. The more you're guilty, the funnier it is. To many, the Internet is a world full of promise. To others, a ripe field ready to be harvested by douchebags. Both are true. I think…
Links for you. Science: Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus in Childcare WorkerNew paper: Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in a childcare worker"Castrated" Spiders Are Better Fighters, Study SaysThe spread of superbugs Other: Greg Mankiw: Budget Arsonist Screaming for a Firehose...Journamalism…
I didn't see this before yesterday's post about Twitter, but over at SciLogs, Kirk Englehardt gets evangelical, offering a very chipper list of "Ten Reasons for Academic Researchers to Use Social Media." I'll just put the item headers here, though each of these has a more complete description, with…