Links 7/13/11

By mikethemadbiologist on July 13, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Great Moments in Deceptive Graphs
Life and death of GFAJ-1
A second case of meat farming
The Unexamined Society (broken clocks and all that...)

Other:

Ah Well. Never Bet Against Applebee's Salad Bars
Suddenly tone matters (personally, I'm willing to admit that the approach is context-dependent)
Frankly, atheists, skeptics, you're embarrassing as fuck
Job Satisfaction, Education, and the Hedonic Treadmill
Extremes of Craziness: Bernard-Henri LÃ©vy explains why you're wrong about Dominique Strauss-Kahn (the title is snarky)
Don't try taking pictures at Frog Pond (apparently, taking a picture of someone else's child in public now makes you a pedophile)
Where The Money Went
The Risks--and Potential Rewards--of Pre-K 'Testing'
John Mackey: The Death of a Football and Union Legend

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