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By mikethemadbiologist on February 18, 2011.

It's warm here. For a day. But I'll take it! And in exchange, you get some links. Science:

The NIH threatened
Bizarre mammals filmed calling using their quills
Robert Samuelson Is Dead Wrong About High Speed Rail (he's wrong about everything else too)
At AGBT, Sequencing Centers Provide Updates on Capacity, Projects
Potential NIH budget cuts

Other:

One-third of Dorchester households now use food stamps
The Ring Leader: The greatest team player of all time, Bill Russell was the hub of a Celtics dynasty that ruled its sport as no other team ever has
What happened to Black Wall Street on June 1, 1921?
New York Times Article Perpetuates Short-Sighted Management Attitudes
Astroforging Returns: Lobbyists Write Fake Letters in Support of Derivatives Rules (if it deals with the markets, the starting assumption should be that deceit and fraud are involved, until proven otherwise)
How regulation came to be: Filling it up with Ethyl
Who's Unemployed?

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