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By mikethemadbiologist on February 1, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

So I have this data, now what?
Jeremy Berg Demystifies the Funding Decision Process at NIGMS
Amoebas in drinking water: a double threat
Invasive Bees Ravage Native Bees in Vicious Death Match (and here)

Other:

Rachel Maddow: In America Today, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower Would Be Bernie Sanders in the U.S. Senate
NSTAR Green Undergoes Major Rate Increase
From quality to quantity - and maybe back again
Another Day in the Blue Collar Life
A call to protest ignites a call to arms: The reaction to Frances Fox Piven's essay urging the unemployed to protest for change shows that we are no longer a democracy but a tyranny of the heavily armed.
The Hot Spotters: Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care?
We Were Winning The Revolution Until The Hippies And Negroes Screwed It Up
Bike Fight! (As a pedestrian, I find some cyclists to be really obnoxious, even dangerous)
Alison Snow Jones
Bureau of Salmon
Trapped by walls of white: For the disabled and for seniors, an unshoveled walk is more than an annoyance -- it is a barrier to life

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