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Links 11/9/10

By mikethemadbiologist on November 9, 2010.

Still at a meeting. But I've got links. Science:

Vaccination, Confirmation Bias, and Knowing Your Audience
Yes, please, let's have hearings on the evidence of climate change (a bit optimistic, but, if they happen, I hope this is how they play out)
Bear versus Bison

Other:

Why a Soccer Momma for Obama Hung Up Her Cleats
George Takei gets medieval on this douchebag
Music Education in Public Schools: Benefits and Challenges
How Obama Enables Rush: President Obama lowered taxes. Why doesn't the country know that? Rick Perlstein on how Rush Limbaugh helped mislead a nation--and why the Democrats let him get away with it.
Mike Russell Talks BLOOM COUNTY And More With Pulitzer-Prize Winning Humorist Berkeley Breathed!
Understanding Excess Supply (The Non-Algebraic Version)
How The Founding Fathers Taxed The Country (and/or I Would Seriously Have Ben Franklin's Baby)

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"Music is the basis of education."

-- Confucius

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When in London, Benjamin Franklin was asked what explained the prosperity of the American colonies. Franklin replied, "Colonial Scrip." :)

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