Links 8/28/11

By mikethemadbiologist on August 28, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Something in the water: What drugs are local residents abusing? A researcher's solution to that vexing problem suggests just how much our sewage knows about us
Modern Rivers Shaped By Trees: Rivers were wide and shallow until the evolution of treelike plants, which got the waterways into line.
Heritability
On science and liberalism

Other:

It's Time For A New Kind Of Bank Of America Solution--The Right Kind
Fenway Court (what is now the Gardiner Museum, when it was lived in and the shades were open)
Your Home Birth is Not a Feminist Statement">Your Home Birth is Not a Feminist Statement
Alan Greenspan Insists That He Knows Nothing About the Economy
Subprime, Shadow Banking and Liquidity Shocks: Lessons of the Great Recession
Maybe Reuters Should Have Talked to Someone Supporting a Financial Transactions Tax
The reform movement is already failing

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