I think we had our last weekend day of summer yesterday. Let's mourn with some links. Science:
Another new bad resistance factor. (Bonus: Another city stigmatized!)
Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting (TEH DARWINISMZ! AAIIIEEE!!!!)
What's not to love about baby seahorses?
Other:
Curse of the control freaks
We Should Have Gone Swedish . . . (file under, "It wasn't just predictable, but it was predicted")
Going Galt
Why We Don't Need to Pay Down the National Debt
THE DRIVE TO BREAK FROM FORCED NEUTRALITY....
Obama's Forgotten Base
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In education circles, the education 'reformers' based on the recent release of the international PISA results, which placed the U.S. in the middle of the pack (as one might expect, high performing U.S. states did well).
Well thank goodness for that. It must be perfectly fine then, I suppose. Nevada Republican Senate candidate, Sharron Angle supported a prison anti-drug program that raised some controversy due to its ties to Scientology.
I've argued previously that economics needs to learn from biology and incorporate more of a data-driven,
So my first thought upon reading that a fraternity pledge ritual involved chanting in a public place "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" was "Frat boys are still assholes.