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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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