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Happy Wednesday. Links for you. Science: Genetic Genealogy and the Single Segment Fungi Developed to Fight Malaria in Mosquitoes What a real astrobiologist at NASA has to say You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential Other: Why employee pensions aren't…
Now if former head of the OMB Peter Orszag were only so charitable when it came to disability benefits. From AMERICAblog, here's the timeline: 2005 Peter Orszag, already at the Brookings Institute, proposes the Diamond-Orszag Plan, "Saving Social Security" (pdf; intro here; comment here). He wants…
A friend cc:ed me on a letter to his Congressman, and I think he's basically right about the Wall Street bailout. He writes Congress: Please say NO. The Bush Administration's proposed bailout plan is overly broad, vastly too expensive, and lacks oversight and control that is absolutely necessary…
Happy Saturday. Links for you. Science: Robot Snowplow from Japan Eats Up Snow, Poops Out Bricks Immunization for Addiction: the Cocaine Vaccine Why are demented women still getting mammograms? Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything Is the Evolution Debate Over? Parsing…