Links for you. Science:
Small amounts of antibiotics generate big problems
Vaccine has nearly eliminated chickenpox deaths in children
L'Eau Pour Chien: Why do dogs rub up against things that smell bad?
Rule Changes Proposed for Research on Humans
Other:
Black Student Can't Be Valedictorian
How a 1995 court case kept the newspaper industry from competing online
A Vision for Economic Renewal -- An American Jobs Agenda
Google's gormless "no pseudonym" policy
BlaBlaMeter - how much bullshit hides in your text?
Breaking: The President Has Options to Raise the Debt Limit
Means Testing is a Marginal Tax Increase, Ctd
Jonestown D.C.
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