Links 7/30/11

By mikethemadbiologist on July 30, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Facts vs. Skills and Content vs. Pedagogy Expertise: Tensions in Science Education
On Green Dread and Agricultural Technology
True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a Pleistocene horse bone
Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites (pictures of a post-coal world

Other:

A Game Plan for Rational, Self-Interested Republicans
Obama is NOT "Caving" to Corporate Interests
Has S&P Become Our Rupert Murdoch?
Anders Breivik, Stieg Larsson, and the Men with the Nazi Tattoos
Profiteering and Union-Busting Repackaged as School Reform
The Feral Genius Applies For A Government Job
I Don't Know If . . . (humor)
$22 trillion Social Security surplus revealed on C-SPAN
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Boehner's Constitutents Would Be Hurt By His Debt Ceiling Plan
Nationalism, the U.S. debt, and the "party of business"
Vintage Exercise Machines
America, Where Selling Out is the Right Thing to Do

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