Links 4/10/11

By mikethemadbiologist on April 10, 2011.

Still spring-like! Links for you. Science:

Rape is not an "adaptation"
Superbugs Found in New Delhi's Water and Sewage
Why 23andMe Genetic Testing Is A Waste Of Time And Money (most people just want the engine to run; they don't find the mechanisms interesting...)
Why should we care...? II. History as a way of knowing

Other:

Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster
Rational Inattention
Bristol Palin's Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention (professional conservatism has always been a con)
I know where I'd like to tighten THEIR belts!
Irritating pseudo-populism, backed up by false statistics and implausible speculations
Worrying About Demand-Pull Inflation Is A Distraction
Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom

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Links 2/23/11

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Links 10/22/10

Happy Friday. Links for you. Science: Science Blogs vs Scientific Literature A Spray of DNA to Keep the Robbers Away (this shouldn't work, but people are stupid) Bacteria 'R' Us How to hold an NSF panel hostage Am I partly Jewish? Testing ancestry hypotheses with 23andMe data Other: Part Two:…

Free personal genomics... sort of

Helix Health's Steve Murphy rather breathlessly announces the launch of the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative website (for the uninitiated: you can tell Steve is really excited when he uses five exclamation marks at the end of a sentence rather than four.) To be fair, it is big news.…

23andMe targeting pregnant women using "mommy bloggers"

Personal genomics company 23andMe has just launched an online community of "mommy bloggers" - a move I can only describe as sheer marketing genius. I'll give you a moment to let the vision sink in. Imagine a group of women hungry for information about the best way to ensure the future health and…

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