Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | August 10, 2011Links for you. Science:
Underwater 'windmills' may feed power grid
Biosimilars are back... Or are they?
Ion Torrent: What is the impact of the new longer reads on assembly?
Other:
On S&P, Downgrades, and Idiots
Cheating report confirms teacher's suspicions
How Right-Wing Ideology Works In The Real World: Post Offices
Why did Japan surrender?
Obama's Passive Conservatism Is Making a Lot of People Angry
Is Wikipedia's real problem really that it's become un-"cool"? (how conservatives and corporations are running Wikipedia)
The error of political prayer
The Economic Cure That Dare Not Speak…
mikethemadbiologist | August 9, 2011Links for you. Science:
On the leaves of sea lettuce, the luckiest survive
Most in GOP field would scale back stem cell funding
The too-smart-for-its-own-good grid
Antimatter 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 Identities
Globalizing 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…
mikethemadbiologist | August 8, 2011Links for you. Science:
Is This The End Of Illumina's Great Run? (it seems the whole sector is in a downturn)
Wikipedia Is Slowly Dying
Can'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 Prejudice
The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor
Library Workers Step In For Teachers In Atlanta Amid Budget Shortfall
5 Things I Can't Believe Websites Are Still…
mikethemadbiologist | August 7, 2011Links for you. Science:
What a selfish little piece of...
Bacterial Traitors
Notes 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 mounts
And another thing ... (about why deficit reduction is stupid)
The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down
The 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 Israel
The…
mikethemadbiologist | August 6, 2011Links for you. Science:
Wasps Turn Ladybugs Into Flailing "Zombies"
Scientists always anger those who prefer the Earth to be flat
In which my heart goes out to Postdoc B
Resistant Salmonella: Deadly Yet Somehow Not Illegal
Other:
White House blames lib groups for deficit deal debacle at secret meeting
Proof Platinum Coin Seigniorage: A Political Game Changer for Progressives!
The Best Facebook Update Ever Posted By A Teenager's Dad
The eternal pivot
There's A Hole In Daddy's Head Where All The Money Goes
United Steelworkers Report Offers Six Ways To Build A Progressive Economy
White House's…
mikethemadbiologist | August 5, 2011Links for you. Science:
Will Carrots Help You See Better? No, but Chocolate Might
A theory that could finally explain how the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built
Crested rat slobbers tree poison on its fur, dares predators to bite it
Honey 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 Statistics
Porn on the Mind
The Mathematics of Basketball
Senate Democrats and Bill Clinton Stab Us In The Front (worth keeping in mind about Obama)
The Necessity of Humanism
Firm gives $1 million to pro-…
mikethemadbiologist | August 4, 2011Links for you. Science:
Blinded and Blindsided
Is Polio Eradication Slipping Out of Reach?
Don't forget the parasites! Reevaluating the pyramid of numbers
Hunting Pathogens in Siberian Permafrost Graves
Other:
Scott Fullwiler: Coin Seigniorage and Inflation
My 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…
mikethemadbiologist | August 3, 2011Links for you. Science:
Operation Cat Drop
Possible Key to Life's Chemistry Revealed in 50-Year-Old Experiment
Evolution Right Under Our Noses
The 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 Ceiling
Email re: debt ceiling
There is no federal public debt problem in the US
A 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…
mikethemadbiologist | August 2, 2011Links 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 odds
What's Up With Conservative White Men and Climate Change Denial?
Yet another "post-Darwinism"
Other:
Good news day, as hard as it is to believe
Matt Damon Is an Education-Loving Crybaby
GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF BALLS: GROUP CAPTAIN J.M. STAGG
Random 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 PowerPoint
Government Can't Help? Tell…
mikethemadbiologist | August 1, 2011Links for you. Science:
My front yard is a battleground
Myth of the climate science gravy train: scientists studying Greenland forced to pay their own airfares
Targeting an audience of monkeys: Ad seeks to plumb roots of human behavior
The 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 DC
New Entrant for Worst. President. Ever.
Matt Stoller: What Presidency?
Between the lions
Broken Lotteries
What are people like Melanie Phillips calling for then?
Is Cash the Best Way to Help the Poor?…
mikethemadbiologist | July 31, 2011Some fiddling while Rome burns. That is, links for you. Science:
FFS: TVC's new NIH boogeyman - CHINA
Friday Weird Science: Knights in Shining Armor, Not as sexy as you might think
How 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 ceiling
Who Funded…
mikethemadbiologist | July 30, 2011Links 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…
mikethemadbiologist | July 29, 2011Links for you. Science:
Scientists Retract Report on Predicting Longevity
On idiocy
Genome data sharing goes global - how not to let the most selfish publish the sexy bits
Annals of Stupidity Update-More on the GOP Hates Science beat
Other:
The Burger Economy
It 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 Attack
The Price is...ummm....errrr.... Wrong (Part 2)
The Souls of White Folk
The Only Social Security Reform Worth…
mikethemadbiologist | July 27, 2011Links for you. Science:
Small amounts of antibiotics generate big problems
Vaccine has nearly eliminated chickenpox deaths in children
L'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 Valedictorian
How a 1995 court case kept the newspaper industry from competing online
A Vision for Economic Renewal -- An American Jobs Agenda
Google's gormless "no pseudonym" policy
BlaBlaMeter - how much bullshit hides in your text?
Breaking: The President Has Options to Raise the Debt Limit
Means Testing is a…
mikethemadbiologist | July 26, 2011Links for you. Science:
Friday Weird Science: The Lion Eats Tonight
Behind The Horse's Ass
Painting Bill Clinton's "white roofs" into reality
Post Publication Peer Review: Blogs vs Letters to the Editor
Other:
Why "progressive" is getting progressively worse: part II
Cenk Uygur and the ethos of corporate-owned media
Modern Monetary Theory: The Last Progressive Left Standing
Barack 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 platform
Why Giving Standardized Tests to Young…
mikethemadbiologist | July 25, 2011Links for you. Science:
E-mail Address Harvesting on PubMed--A Call for Responsible Handling of E-mail Addresses
The autism generation
Adapting 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 Deficit
Reforming Education: Bonuses Aren't Enough
The Donkey in the Room
More Notes on the Debt Ceiling "Negotiation" (Obama had other concrete options besides massive cuts)
Bill O'Reilly: dumbest man alive
The Great Unraveling: Congressional Democrats Question Obama's Core Values,…
mikethemadbiologist | July 24, 2011Links for you. Science:
Is Something Fishy Going On? Citations Suggest Correction Comes Slowly, If It Comes At All
Tweeting Science
How the Valley was won: The birth of technology in Silicon Valley
Ants clean up the remains of Brood XIX
Other:
What Happens in Vegas
Mock my pants, not my sister
Social Security for Beginners
Why 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
mikethemadbiologist | July 23, 2011Links for you. Science:
News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation
Harnessing solar power, on a small scale
The end of evolutionary psychology
Is 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 Billionaireland
HE WHOSE NAME SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN
Matt Stoller: Elizabeth Warren Versus Barack Obama on Leadership
The World is Flattened
Got Jobs?
Robert Samuelson Wants Us to Follow the Example of a Country With 7 Years of Double-Digit Unemployment
The Wage…
mikethemadbiologist | July 22, 2011Hotter 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 Agriculture
Ancient 'Frankenstein' Insect Discovered
Campylobacter 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 Delusions
Scribblers and Madmen
The power of nouns - tiny word change increases voter turnout
Reception of Rape Victims: Silsbee, TX Edition…
mikethemadbiologist | July 21, 2011Links for you. Science:
Poor memory? Blame evolution, not Google
The Jellyfish that Conquered Land -- and Australia
The (Nonsensical) Politics of Fisheries Funding
Darwin's Great Blunder--and Why It Was Good for the World
Why 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 say
If Only the Czar Knew
The struggle to eat: As Congress wrangles over spending cuts, surging numbers of Americans are relying on the government just to put food on the table
How academic physicians…