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By mikethemadbiologist on August 18, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Ringing the Warning Bell: Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella (one thing that's unclear is the mechanism of colistin resistance, since I haven't seen the paper yet)
Crosstown Traffic
The Physics of a Sad Balloon
Baby Fat: Do birth control pills make women gain weight?

Other:

Hard and Complicated Aren't Synonyms (very good point about political problems versus technical ones)
What's The Agenda
Did Rick Perry Have A Fake Black Guy Running A Twitter Account?
New Data: Tea Party is Authoritarian, Not Libertarian
Shorter Weeks, Longer Vacations
Can Suburbs Be Designed to Do Away with the Car? The public-transit goals of a "new urbanism" town can fail if residents don't foresee true travel benefits
One Less Bell to Answer: Further Thoughts on Neoliberalism By Way of Mike Konczal (and Burt Bachrach)
Returning to the scene of the class war
We have been here before

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Lotsa Links

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