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By mikethemadbiologist on December 29, 2010.

Happy Wednesday. Links for you. Science:

An amazing, though clearly little-known, scientific fact: We get more snow storms in warm years!
Farm animals get 80% of antibiotics sold in US
The paradigm is dead, long live the paradigm!

Other:

KRUGMAN AND MINION
Kathleen Hanna and Kurt Cobain
It's Not That You're Racist...
Incompetent Economists, Not Pensions, Push Property Taxes Higher
The Blast Shack

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