Happy Friday! Links for you. Science:
We need to work together to save the Statistical Abstract of the United States
At odds with disease risk estimates
The other weaver ants
Unauthorized medicine: Leave important clinical testing to the professionals
Other:
What the Baby Joseph cases tells us about the anti-choice movement
Nobodies of Macroeconomics (Very Wonkish)
The God That Sucked
Bingaman tells the truth about gas prices, is lonely in doing so
America: You keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means.
It's School Admissions Season in New York City. Does your 18-month-old have what it takes?
Eff You (on the NFL lockout)
Clarity
More like this
Karo, Indonesia is back in the bird flu news. Another village in Karo district was the scene of the largest human bird flu cluster to date (eight cases, seven of whom died).
It wasn't easy keeping my 18-month-old son out of trouble in the crowd that had gathered yesterday to hear Hillary Clinton speak.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man." -Mark Twain