It's cold here. Warm up with some nice links. Science:
The National Science Foundation calls it "peer review" for a reason, Mr. Smith!
Imagine A World Where Aspergers Was The Norm
(Don't) Keep it Simple: Why a Culture of Journalism Isn't Working for Science
NIH study identifies ideal body mass index
Other:
There's no crying in baseball and, apparently, no laughing in football
John Brown's body
Freezing Out Hope
Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
The corporate takeover of American schools: The trend for appointing CEOs to the top jobs is symptomatic of a declining commitment to public education and social justice
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It's Thursday. And that means links. Or something. Science:
China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020
Research Project Grant Support For "Younger Researchers"
On the latest NIH soft-money kerfuffle
Collins warns Universities to roll back soft money jobs...sortof
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Kinda cold here. Let's warm up with some links. Science:
From the Trenches of the War on Science
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Before I get to an excellent NY Times article by David Leonhardt about taxes, I want to say why taxes shouldmust matter to scientists.
Even so often, I get a link or a comment which decries my posts about politics*. But the lay of the political landscape is vital for scientists--and not just for…
Inside Higher Ed has an article on athletics and admissions based on an investigative report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The report compares the SAT scores of football and basketball players to those of other students, but what it really highlights is the difference between science and…
That article on Wikileaks was interesting. It was a little teal deer for work, but I breezed through it because I had been thinking that it was a bit weird for the press to be assassinating Julian Assange's character like they have been. I thought the press would like him, because he gave them all this great material for stories but they seem to hate him. I figured maybe they were mad that he gave them so much stuff to have to read?