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Links 1/21/11

By mikethemadbiologist on January 21, 2011.

It's snowing. Big whoop. Links for you. Science:

Meet Dicty the amoeba - the world's smallest farmer
On sharing genes with friends
The rise of genetic architecture
Are synthetic associations a man-made phenomenon?

Other:

Americans Are Far Less Conservative Than the Right Wing Claims: New research suggests that only a quarter of self-identified "conservatives" may actually be true conservatives on the issues. Many aren't conservative at all.
Steve Jobs Bought Human Liver Like Foie Gras
Shoup to O'Toole: The Market for Parking Is Anything But Free (a good wonky smackdown)
Life with an STD
Rick Perlstein wants us to remember that Martin Luther King Jr., so casually lionized today, was far from lionized while he was alive
Imagine if we treated humiliation itself as a cost
Deficit Hawkoprite Watch

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