Links 2/4/11

By mikethemadbiologist on February 4, 2011.

Ugh. What a week. Links for you. Science:

Perspective on the Parenting Debate: Rich Parents Don't Matter?
Children's Genetic Potentials Are Subdued by Poverty
The shape of social progress - I

Other:

Too Bad Facts Don't Deter Anti-Choicers
The danger of certainty (it really is astonishing just how ignorant some atheists are of religion and religious people)
Update on conditions in Ireland...another letter from Ireland
Follow the Money (like Yves Smith, I find it perplexing that many people can't bring themselves to realize that some people wanted to sell loans that would fail)
Vernon Smith on Balance Sheet Recessions, Left-Right-And-Center on Underwater Homes and Bankruptcy Modification
Math and Economics Are Hard!
The National Health
Eyes on the Prize: A Social Security summary

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