Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. mikethemadbiologist
  2. Links 1/22/11

Links 1/22/11

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user mikethemadbiologist
By mikethemadbiologist on January 22, 2011.

It's kinda cold. Warm up with some links. Science:

Conspiracies Don't Kill Birds. People, However, Do.
A 34,000 year old bacteria has come back from the dead and is breeding
Octopus tool use
Woman science bloggers discuss pros and cons of online exposure
Global vaccine efforts offer hope to millions (Stopped clock, twice a day, and all that)

Other:

5 Things I Love About the New BPL Online Catalog
What Makes Abortion Dangerous.
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798
The Civility Diversion
A requiem for Israel's Labor Party
Maybe Jared Loughner Was a Bigot, After All
President Obama moves to the right on regulation; appeasing business has real life costs

Tags
Lotsa Links

More like this

Two Great Boston Public Library Exhibits

(from here)

Around the Web: Potternomics, PeterSuberNomics, #ScholPubNomics and more

Great Photography Exhibit at the Boston Public Library

There's an ongoing exhibit of photographer Jules Aarons' work at the Boston Public Library, "Man in the Street: Boston Photographs by Jules Aarons" that is worth seeing.

Sunday Links

There's some kinda local race tomorrow or something. While I figure that out, here are some links. Science:
Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Sending Health Care To Homes Is Better And Cheaper Than Hospital Stays
  • Conferences Good And Bad, In A Profit-Driven Society
  • $0.50 Pantoprazole For Stomach Bleeding In ICU Patients Could Save Families Thousands Of Dollars
  • If You Want To Golf Better, Don't Play With A Democrat
  • If You Like MAHA, Thank Obama

Science Codex

More by this author

Program Announcement: I'm Moving
September 1, 2011
I've dropped some hints in the past that my relationship with ScienceBlogs would be...altered. Well, I've decided to leave. Mostly, it had to do with the issue of pseudonymity, although I'm very excited to hang out my own shingle once again. I don't want to rehash the issue of pseudonymity,…
Note to Unions: This Is Not How You Build a Coalition
September 1, 2011
The old saw that 'we hang together or we get hung separately' is a perfect description of how the left has disintegrated into irrelevance. Too often, groups will focus on modest gains for their own narrow constituency, while selling out other allies. Over the long term, each component of the…
Links 8/31/11
August 31, 2011
Links for you. Science: Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the Amazon What do accommodationists do about creationist politicians? I've Been Told You Can Get Flu From the Flu Shot: False! Federal Work Suspension of Leading Arctic Scientist Ended as Investigation of His…
Meet the New New Math, Same As the Old New Math? What We Can Learn from Finland
August 31, 2011
Recently, The New York Times published an op-ed calling for curricular changes in K-12 math education: Today, American high schools offer a sequence of algebra, geometry, more algebra, pre-calculus and calculus (or a "reform" version in which these topics are interwoven). This has been codified by…
Links 8/30/11
August 30, 2011
Links for you. Another Scientist Calls Out Sen. Coburn's Misleading, Juvenile "Report" XMRV: ITS EVERYWHERE! UUUUUGH! ITS IN MY RACCOON WOUNDS! AND MY QIAGEN COLUMNS! Coulter Goes All Science-y in Bid to Disprove Evolution Yet another bad day for the anti-vaccine movement 2011 Antibiotics: Killing…

More reads

Sungudogo: A novel about an African adventure and more
As part of a fundraiser for the Secular Student alliance, I'm writing a novel as we speak. I'll post one chapter per hour (approximately) until it is done. I started several hours ago, so there are as of this writing seven chapters (plus front matter) up for you to read. Please visit "Sungudogo: A Novel" .... Start Here.
Your Brain On Music: Pure Joy
Figure 2: Evidence for dopamine release during pleasurable music listening. Listening to music invokes our emotions, ranging from pleasure to disdain. It is one of our most human experiences, sometimes so profound that words cannot convey the intensity. One of my closest friends, a professor of musicology, once asked me in a moment of self doubt, "You're a scientist, you do important things…
Dyson as Sociologist? Death Trains, Values, & Climate Action
This week's NY Times magazine runs a cover story by Nicholas Dawidoff on Freeman Dyson and his doubts about the urgency of climate change. Many critics have decried the article as another leading example of false journalistic balance. Yet I think there are much deeper issues at play here. On one hand, the social scientist in me views Dawidoff's journalistic narrative as a sociologically nuanced…

© 2006-2025 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.