Links for you. Science:
How to Wipe Out a Family
Animal Domestication
The Bayh-Dole Act
Sequence Analysis 101: A newbie's guide to crunching next-generation sequencing data
The Mind of a Police Dog
Republican Budget Cuts at Heart of Medical Research: Albert Hunt
Other:
Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About
Dear Washington DC: The Public Is Smarter About Money (and Deficits) Than You Are
The Relationship between Union Membership and State Budget Deficits
It's the Inequality, Stupid
Free Trade, Efficiency, and a Punch in the Nose
Why our fascination continues: The Michelle Rhee story neatly captures the way our discourse works.
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One of the really difficult things for me to comprehend is why the idea of 'Fiscal Austerity' is so popular among politicians, especially too many Democratic ones, when Fiscal Austerity will lead to high unemployment.
As with history in general, I suppose the victors write--or rewrite--economic history too. One of the arguments for balancing budgets that's floating around is that Clinton got us a surplus, times were good, and therefore, we should do it again.
The headline:
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081001204.html">Federal
Deficit Sharply Lower.
Before I get into the meat of the post, if, after reading this, you end up obsessing over trade deficits too, then I've failed (just wanted to make that clear).