Links 6/12/11

By mikethemadbiologist on June 12, 2011.

Dear rest of the East Coast, please stop hogging all of the heat wave. As a gesture of good faith, I'll share some links with you. Science:

Advice for Grad Students
Gould's "Unconscious Manipulation of Data"
NDM-1 in a US military hospital in Afghanistan
Ruling Favors a 10-Inch Citizen of France

Other:

Carbon tax now
Troubling Economic Signs for Obama's Re-Election
Beck University's David Barton: The Founders settled creation/evolution long before Darwin
Why I Don't Hate On Weiner (good post, but I 'hate on' the phrase 'hate on'...)
ï»¿On Weinergate: Before Throwing Stones...
How to Cut Crime, Alcoholism and Addiction? It's Not Elementary, But Preschool
The Rich Complexity of Village Life: A Thai village study finds wide variation in risk attitudes, suggesting that policy to smooth economic volatility may need to be nuanced (more economics like this, please)
The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation
My Life As A Disabled Teenage Girl

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