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Links for you. Science: Underwater 'windmills' may feed power gridBiosimilars are back... Or are they?Ion Torrent: What is the impact of the new longer reads on assembly? Other: On S&P, Downgrades, and IdiotsCheating report confirms teacher's suspicionsHow Right-Wing Ideology Works In The Real World: Post OfficesWhy did Japan surrender?Obama's Passive Conservatism Is Making a Lot of People AngryIs Wikipedia's real problem really that it's become un-"cool"? (how conservatives and corporations are running Wikipedia)The error of political prayerThe Economic Cure That Dare Not Speak Its Name…
Links for you. Science: On the leaves of sea lettuce, the luckiest surviveMost in GOP field would scale back stem cell fundingThe too-smart-for-its-own-good gridAntimatter belt around Earth discovered by Pamela craft Other: "No, I Don't Want Your 'Rewards Card'" (as a curmudgeon, I bow in awe to this) The governance of money The NYT Misrepresents China's Options and Accounting IdentitiesGlobalizing Healthcare: A Prescription with Benefits (I would love to read a response by MD's who blog)Are Public Libraries Obsolete?: The Shelf Life of a "Dream Vision"'Jesus loves nukes': US Air Force…
Links for you. Science: Is This The End Of Illumina's Great Run? (it seems the whole sector is in a downturn)Wikipedia Is Slowly DyingCan't an Ugly, Slimy Bottom-Feeder Get Some Love?CDC stresses need for flu shot every year Other: What Happened to Obama? (must-read)Is Standard and Poor's Manipulating US Debt Rating to Escape Liability for the Mortgage Crisis?Why S&P Has No Business Downgrading the U.S.Prattle and PrejudiceThe Hidden History of ALEC and Prison LaborLibrary Workers Step In For Teachers In Atlanta Amid Budget Shortfall5 Things I Can't Believe Websites Are Still DoingI…
Links for you. Science: What a selfish little piece of...Bacterial TraitorsNotes from an E. coli "tweenome" - lessons learned from our first data DOI.Leaving the Game Other: Why Van Halen demanded "no brown M&Ms"Day by day the evidence mountsAnd another thing ... (about why deficit reduction is stupid)The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take DownThe myth of the extraordinary teacher: Yes, we need to get rid of bad teachers. But we can't demand that teachers be excellent in conditions that preclude excellence.Not only Arab countries are in turmoil; protests wrack IsraelThe Bizarro…
Links for you. Science: Wasps Turn Ladybugs Into Flailing "Zombies"Scientists always anger those who prefer the Earth to be flatIn which my heart goes out to Postdoc BResistant Salmonella: Deadly Yet Somehow Not Illegal Other: White House blames lib groups for deficit deal debacle at secret meetingProof Platinum Coin Seigniorage: A Political Game Changer for Progressives!The Best Facebook Update Ever Posted By A Teenager's DadThe eternal pivotThere's A Hole In Daddy's Head Where All The Money GoesUnited Steelworkers Report Offers Six Ways To Build A Progressive EconomyWhite House's Scooby…
Links for you. Science: Will Carrots Help You See Better? No, but Chocolate MightA theory that could finally explain how the Great Pyramids of Egypt were builtCrested rat slobbers tree poison on its fur, dares predators to bite itHoney I shrunk the Kids! Daily variation in Height and Weight and it's Implications for BMI Based Public Health Surveillance Other: The Importance of Good StatisticsPorn on the MindThe Mathematics of BasketballSenate Democrats and Bill Clinton Stab Us In The Front (worth keeping in mind about Obama)The Necessity of HumanismFirm gives $1 million to pro-Romney…
Links for you. Science: Blinded and BlindsidedIs Polio Eradication Slipping Out of Reach?Don't forget the parasites! Reevaluating the pyramid of numbersHunting Pathogens in Siberian Permafrost Graves Other: Scott Fullwiler: Coin Seigniorage and InflationMy comment, in moderation at Hullabaloo (progressives are being played for suckers)It's My Party, and I'll Whine If I Want To (kinda gets at the role of race in the Democratic Party)Beat Up Your Favorite News Reporter, What Would It Mean for the U.S. to be Unable to Pay Its Debt?Tyler Cowen Doubles Down (Doesn't Know When to Quit Department)…
Links for you. Science: Operation Cat DropPossible Key to Life's Chemistry Revealed in 50-Year-Old ExperimentEvolution Right Under Our NosesThe Amazing Spider Wasp Other: The Grand Crap Sandwich (Willis was a huge Obama supporter. Not so much anymore)Because the Bible Tells Me So: Why Bachmann and Tea Party Christians Opposed Raising the Debt CeilingEmail re: debt ceilingThere is no federal public debt problem in the USA DISCUSSION YOU'VE NEVER HEARD!The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white Southern extremism: The goal, methods and passions of the Tea Party in the House are all…
Links for you. Science: Private companies own your DNA - again (I guess the sun can be patented)Coin tosses don't really give you fifty-fifty oddsWhat's Up With Conservative White Men and Climate Change Denial?Yet another "post-Darwinism" Other: Good news day, as hard as it is to believeMatt Damon Is an Education-Loving CrybabyGREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF BALLS: GROUP CAPTAIN J.M. STAGGRandom Observations Regarding the Debt Deal (Which May or May Not Become Law) (#5 is brilliant)Number of the Day (for the wonky version, go here)In defence of PowerPointGovernment Can't Help? Tell That to…
Links for you. Science: My front yard is a battlegroundMyth of the climate science gravy train: scientists studying Greenland forced to pay their own airfaresTargeting an audience of monkeys: Ad seeks to plumb roots of human behaviorThe World's Only Analog Blogger Other: Even Peggy Noonan of Murdoch's WSJ gets it!Matt Damon's Powerful Education Speech at the Save Our Schools Rally in DCNew Entrant for Worst. President. Ever.Matt Stoller: What Presidency?Between the lionsBroken LotteriesWhat are people like Melanie Phillips calling for then?Is Cash the Best Way to Help the Poor?College (why…
Some fiddling while Rome burns. That is, links for you. Science: FFS: TVC's new NIH boogeyman - CHINAFriday Weird Science: Knights in Shining Armor, Not as sexy as you might thinkHow Greedy Corporations Are Destroying America's Status as 'Innovation Nation'A quick dive into the protist world (Part I) Other: Debunking the Big Lie Right-Wingers Use to Justify Black Poverty and Unemployment: Economic factors and changes in public policies, not manifestations of "black culture," explain African Americans' relatively poorer economic outcomes.Religious fanatics and the debt ceilingWho Funded…
Links for you. Science: Facts vs. Skills and Content vs. Pedagogy Expertise: Tensions in Science EducationOn Green Dread and Agricultural TechnologyTrue single-molecule DNA sequencing of a Pleistocene horse boneBattleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites (pictures of a post-coal world Other: A Game Plan for Rational, Self-Interested RepublicansObama is NOT "Caving" to Corporate InterestsHas S&P Become Our Rupert Murdoch?Anders Breivik, Stieg Larsson, and the Men with the Nazi TattoosProfiteering and Union-Busting Repackaged as School ReformThe Feral Genius Applies For A…
Links for you. Science: Scientists Retract Report on Predicting LongevityOn idiocyGenome data sharing goes global - how not to let the most selfish publish the sexy bitsAnnals of Stupidity Update-More on the GOP Hates Science beat Other: The Burger EconomyIt is the official position of this blog that Jesus Loves Manatees.Bonfire of the Manatees (I like manatees)"One of the easiest ways to differentiate an economist from almost anyone else in society"When Patents AttackThe Price is...ummm....errrr.... Wrong (Part 2)The Souls of White FolkThe Only Social Security Reform Worth Considering:…
Links for you. Science: Small amounts of antibiotics generate big problemsVaccine has nearly eliminated chickenpox deaths in childrenL'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 ValedictorianHow a 1995 court case kept the newspaper industry from competing onlineA Vision for Economic Renewal -- An American Jobs AgendaGoogle's gormless "no pseudonym" policyBlaBlaMeter - how much bullshit hides in your text?Breaking: The President Has Options to Raise the Debt LimitMeans Testing is a Marginal Tax…
Links for you. Science: Friday Weird Science: The Lion Eats TonightBehind The Horse's AssPainting Bill Clinton's "white roofs" into realityPost Publication Peer Review: Blogs vs Letters to the Editor Other: Why "progressive" is getting progressively worse: part IICenk Uygur and the ethos of corporate-owned mediaModern Monetary Theory: The Last Progressive Left StandingBarack Obama is gutting the core principles of the Democratic party: The president's attacks on America's social safety net are destroying the soul of the Democratic party's platformWhy Giving Standardized Tests to Young…
Links for you. Science: E-mail Address Harvesting on PubMed--A Call for Responsible Handling of E-mail AddressesThe autism generationAdapting evolutionary psychology Other: Barack Obama: The Democrats' Richard Nixon?Intro Econ for WAPO: Foreign Holdings of U.S. Debt Depend on the Trade Deficit, not the Budget DeficitReforming Education: Bonuses Aren't EnoughThe Donkey in the RoomMore Notes on the Debt Ceiling "Negotiation" (Obama had other concrete options besides massive cuts)Bill O'Reilly: dumbest man aliveThe Great Unraveling: Congressional Democrats Question Obama's Core Values, Don't…
Links for you. Science: Is Something Fishy Going On? Citations Suggest Correction Comes Slowly, If It Comes At AllTweeting ScienceHow the Valley was won: The birth of technology in Silicon ValleyAnts clean up the remains of Brood XIX Other: What Happens in VegasMock my pants, not my sisterSocial Security for BeginnersWhy the Left Gets Neoliberalism Wrong: It's the Feudalism, Stupid!Whose Responsibility Is it that the Public Doesn't Understand Public Finance? (sounds a lot like science communication...)Why Aren't There More Union Members in America? A Reply to Will Wilkinson
Links for you. Science: News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent InvestigationHarnessing solar power, on a small scaleThe end of evolutionary psychologyIs It Cold in Here? Other: Should fiscal policy always be counter-cyclical?Are You Smarter Than a 12th Grader?40% Less Government Will Be Fun!Alice in BillionairelandHE WHOSE NAME SHALL NOT BE SPOKENMatt Stoller: Elizabeth Warren Versus Barack Obama on LeadershipThe World is FlattenedGot Jobs?Robert Samuelson Wants Us to Follow the Example of a Country With 7 Years of Double-Digit UnemploymentThe Wage Is Too Damn…
Hotter than hell. It's 99F (~38C) as I write this. Somehow, I think I'm skipping the outdoor BBQ today we're having at work... Anyway, links for you. Science: Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional AgricultureAncient 'Frankenstein' Insect DiscoveredCampylobacter jejuni - hugely adaptable but how does it do it?"Randomized Field Experiments Were Tried and Rejected More Than a Century Ago" (also read the fourth comment) Other: Reaganite DelusionsScribblers and MadmenThe power of nouns - tiny word change increases voter turnoutReception of Rape Victims: Silsbee, TX EditionThe…
Links for you. Science: Poor memory? Blame evolution, not GoogleThe Jellyfish that Conquered Land -- and AustraliaThe (Nonsensical) Politics of Fisheries FundingDarwin's Great Blunder--and Why It Was Good for the WorldWhy Does Writing Make Us Smarter? Other: Beckhams a 'bad example' for families: With a fourth child, the couple have joined the ranks of the irresponsible, population experts sayIf Only the Czar KnewThe struggle to eat: As Congress wrangles over spending cuts, surging numbers of Americans are relying on the government just to put food on the tableHow academic physicians are…