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By mikethemadbiologist on April 7, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all: I've discovered that when the facts don't suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounce
Significant (although we can correct for multiple comparisons...)
The Evolution of Prejudice
Alien-Wasp Swarms Devouring Birds, Bugs in Hawaii

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Blacklisted Economics Professor Found Dead: NC Publishes His Last Letter (brilliant satire)
Get Pumped! Introducing Metropolitan Boston's Newest Museum
Monday Mustelid
A Call to Shun
Stiglitz Tells Us the Redistribution Fairy is Dead, but She Still Lives in Economists' Fantasies
More Journalists Dignifying "TARP Was a Success" Propaganda
The Collapse of the American Empire Won't Be Televised...
Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich

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