Links for you. Science:
BGI releases a complete de novo E. coli O104 genome assembly and is making their detection kit protocols and synthesized primers freely available to worldwide disease control and research agencies
How many blue lobsters does it take to start a business?
Australian climate scientists face death threats, cyberbullying
Sunday Spinelessness - Flat animals and biology's age of discovery
Bulb In, Bulb Out
Other:
The Lives of Homeless Children
False Fear Of A U.S. Grain Shortage
Our Fantasy Nation?
Late Night: Hey, Kids! Let's All Point and Laugh at the Homophobe!
The philosophy of mean
In defense of Canada
SlutWalks and the future of feminism
The Beatings Will Continue...
None Dare Call It Treason...
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...in Europe. I'll get to that in a moment. You've probably heard of the E. coli outbreak sweeping through Germany and now other European countries that has caused over one thousand cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome ('HUS'). What's odd is that the initial reports are calling this a novel hybrid…