Links 2/10/11

By mikethemadbiologist on February 10, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains: British team's success with jab that targets proteins common to every type of flu virus
Sexual discrimination against women in science may be institutional
On Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray From Lesson Plan
Scientific Perspiration

Other:

Crooked Morality Cops.
The local view on AOL/HuffPo: we're still where innovation is happening
Bad News for Charter Schools
Will the Three Birds Sing? (Republican freshman congressman David Rivera will probably be the first to join Tom DeLay in the hoosegow)
The Boring Centrist Confessions of a Radical Progressive
Beer Commercials Are Not Stupid
The real effect of 'Reaganomics': Ronald Reagan promoted the idea that conservatives prefer to leave the economy to the market. Nonsense - we've been gulled

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