Links for you. Science:
We Won't Become Giants
Which is right: 'In your face' or staid professionalism?
Scientists Discover Bacterium in Mosquitoes' Gut That Destroys Malaria
Other:
Actually, "The Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do.
As the door turns
Feedback: Florida's Student Success Act & Value Added Assessments - The Rick Hess Infomercial
Hitting the Ceiling
Speculation explains more about oil prices than anything else
DestroyingEliminating Public EducationSchooling As We Know It [Today] (if you're like me, you just solve the problem by granting them the legitimacy they've earned--which is none at all)
PROHIBITION
How Microsoft Caused the DotCom Bubble and why their Skype 'Hail Mary' is irrelevant
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