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It's Thursday. And that means links. Or something. Science: China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020 Research Project Grant Support For "Younger Researchers" On the latest NIH soft-money kerfuffle Collins warns Universities to roll back soft money jobs...sortof Shrimp's Dirty Secrets…
It's Friday. Here are some links. Science: Why you CAN have your $1000 genome - so long as you learn what to do with it A Physicist Solves the City Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street (Got Transaction Tax?) How does bleach work? Other: "Don't politicize this tragedy!" Let's Get This Straight…
A balmy....27 degrees. At least the link supply isn't frozen. Science: Reviving 100-year-old resting spores of diatoms Electric Vehicles: Myths vs. Reality Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis offers a radical new way to treat infectious diseases as the effectiveness of our current antibiotics…
Many years ago, during The Roe v. Wade Fight (Part II: The Rise of the Right Wing Yahoos) a student came to me and asked for a break because she wanted to join a bus full of Brandeis students heading down to DC to protest stuff. I told her not to worry about the quiz coming up, just go and do her…