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By mikethemadbiologist on August 21, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

NIH Uncovers Racial Disparity in Grant Awards
Otters are back in England
Scientists engineer suicide bomber bacteria to kill other bacteria
Project Nim - The Untold Story

Other:

Painstaking, dot-point summary - bond issuance doesn't lower inflation risk
What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party
Welcome to the Poorhouse: The tragic, heartrending, poignant plight of the moderately rich.
The Secret Language Code
Perry Keeps Treating `Em Ugly
The death of pseudonyms? Not so fast...
Oh Dear
U.S. debt--let's do the numbers
Anti-Date Rape Straw

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