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Links 11/15/10

By mikethemadbiologist on November 15, 2010.

Just another Manic Monday. Links for you. Science:

Time Warp: Recent right-wing rejections of Einstein's theory of relativity echo Nazi dismissals of what they called 'Jewish Physics' (they're not attacking science, they're just trying to defend their culture space)
Juiced
Serious Fun With Numbers: We're drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them (you could also hire some scientists who know how to do this. Just saying)
What It's Like to Live in a Science Museum for a Month

Other:

Jewish Leaders Take Beck to Task for Creepy Soros Accusation: Scurrilous, Grotesque, Monstrous
Moral heuristics, public policy, and self-defeating tribalism
But it's just an hour!
I Finally Got a Kindle and I Love It but I Am Scared of Fascism
War Criminal Now a Republican Congressman (what is this 'torture' thing you speak of? We certainly don't do that)

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