Links for you. Science:
So you think you knew Templeton? A new report. (Not really shocking: The Templeton Foundation: Lie Down with Templetons and End Up with Lawsuits Against 'Climate Hawk' Politicians)
Psych-Out Sexism: The innocent, unconscious bias that discourages girls from math and science.
The fight over teaching evolution, climate change
Other:
Stopgap Spending Bill Severs Array of Education Programs
The economics profession is a disgrace
Air Travel, Train Travel, and Republican "Freedom"
Ezra Klein buys Rhee
What the People Want
A fetus will "testify" about abortion bill (it was a flop, but the last paragraph is still cracking me up)
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The Wars of John McCain:
John McCain believes the Vietnam War was winnable. Now he argues that an Obama administration would accept defeat in Iraq, with grave costs to American honor and national security. Is McCain's quest for victory a reflection of an…
It only took Ezra Klein about much longer than me to figure this out:
...the position that Obama and the Democrats have staked out is the very position that moderate Republicans have staked out before.
Take health-care reform. The individual mandate was developed by a group of conservative…
Links, links, and more links. Lots of good stuff this week.
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Brains and Beauty: a three-movement concerto was written inspired by a poem written by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, and set to images culled from the research of Hanna Damasio.
How does beer become whiskey? At the Guardian…
Links for you. Science:
Congress and Science Education: Wolf Berates NSF on Overdue ReportInclusive Fitness: Return to the Wrestling RingResearchers Challenge E. O. Wilson Over Evolutionary TheoryRobert Trivers and colleagues on Nowak, Tarnita, and Wilson's "The evolution of eusociality"Re:…