Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | January 25, 2011Snow, you bore me. Links don't, however. Science:
Membership has its privileges
One-Slide Explanation of Tides
Two forms of world's 'newest' cat, the Sunda leopard
Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA acknowledges a hand in one mass bird death
Other:
Eurosclerosis, Then and Now
Dying to Work
Libel in the New York Times and Reuters (there are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize Obama though)
GOP's State of the Union Responder Would Set Higher Taxes on Middle-Class Than Millionaires (in other news, man bites dog...)
The Fed Works... for Chinese Workers
How academic physicians turn into drug company…
mikethemadbiologist | January 24, 2011The high today is supposed to be 12 degrees. Warm up with some hot links. Science:
For Many Species, No Escape as Temperature Rises
Explain yourself: Master Science Blogger Bora Zivkovic
Ayaan Hirsi Ali should not testify before Rep. Peter King
Misunderstandings Regarding State Debt, Pensions, and Retiree Health Costs Create Unnecessary Alarm
One in Three College Students Is Coasting. This Is News?
Homicide Rates Linked to Trust in Government, Sense of Belonging, Study Suggests
Memo to Scott McClellan: Here's what happened
Hensarling: Keep your government paws off of my mother's Medicare…
mikethemadbiologist | January 23, 2011Happy Sunday. Links for you. Science:
Field of Discord: At public colleges' sustainability centers, farming groups sow influence
New Language Discovered: Prairiedogese
How to give effective oral presentations
The Mass Extinction of Scientists Who Study Species
Other:
The 'new normal' of unemployment: Mainstream economists are preaching a decade of pain and historically high joblessness - as if no alternative policy existed
There ain't nothing like the real thing baby
Why Great Teachers Quit: And How We Might Stop the Exodus
Shooting Black People for Sport
When Teddy Roosevelt was shot
The…
mikethemadbiologist | January 22, 2011It's kinda cold. Warm up with some links. Science:
Conspiracies Don't Kill Birds. People, However, Do.
A 34,000 year old bacteria has come back from the dead and is breeding
Octopus tool use
Woman science bloggers discuss pros and cons of online exposure
Global vaccine efforts offer hope to millions (Stopped clock, twice a day, and all that)
Other:
5 Things I Love About the New BPL Online Catalog
What Makes Abortion Dangerous.
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798
The Civility Diversion
A requiem for Israel's Labor Party
Maybe Jared Loughner Was a Bigot…
mikethemadbiologist | January 21, 2011It's snowing. Big whoop. Links for you. Science:
Meet Dicty the amoeba - the world's smallest farmer
On sharing genes with friends
The rise of genetic architecture
Are synthetic associations a man-made phenomenon?
Other:
Americans Are Far Less Conservative Than the Right Wing Claims: New research suggests that only a quarter of self-identified "conservatives" may actually be true conservatives on the issues. Many aren't conservative at all.
Steve Jobs Bought Human Liver Like Foie Gras
Shoup to O'Toole: The Market for Parking Is Anything But Free (a good wonky smackdown)
Life with an STD…
mikethemadbiologist | January 20, 2011We have ice, ice, baby. Also, some links. Science:
The Antibiotics Crisis
Time for Astrology to Sign Out (for the Huffington Post, astrology seems to be a woo too far)
Superbugs, Agricultural Antibiotics, and Farm-Worker Infections: A New Study Connects the Dots
Sit. Stay. Parse. Good Girl!
Other:
On MLK Day, Some Thoughts on Segregated Schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama
The Role of the Dollar: Who Cares?
MLK's Legacy -- Let's Launch a People's Campaign for the Unemployed
The Dangers of the Investment Bank Franchise Model
Stop treating monsters as reasonable people
Are Public Service…
mikethemadbiologist | January 19, 2011Rain, rain, go away, come back....NEVER. Oh well. Links for you. Science:
The Ivory Ceiling of Service Work
Martin Luther King, Jr., on science and religion
Bull sharks spotted swimming down the main street in Goodna - 30km from the coast
The Assyrians and Jews: 3,000 years of common history
Other:
Think Israel's a lost cause? Ten reasons to think again. Something's started to happen here, and for the first time in a long time, something good, the decency that still somehow informs people here, has a chance of taking wing.
NPF: HOW TO DRIVE IN SNOW
THE ORIGINAL ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION…
mikethemadbiologist | January 18, 2011A Tuesday that feels like a Monday. Ugh. Links for you. Science:
Opening science
Homeopathy: Cure or Con?
Local Health Department Costs Associated with Response to a School-Based Pertussis Outbreak --- Omaha, Nebraska, September--November 2008
New User-friendly Resource Connects Human Genes To Biological Functions
Other:
Fairy Tales of the Coming State of the Union: Our Grandchildren Must Have the Burden of Repaying the National Debt
"Who I Wanted to Kill Was Every Democrat in the Senate + House": Where the Notion of Right-Wing Political Murder Comes From
Right-Wing Media Paranoids Haven't…
mikethemadbiologist | January 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
Antibiotics do indeed relieve kids' ear infections
Farm worker infections with MRSA -- the first numbers
Genetic Soldiers? Advisory Group Urges Pentagon To Map Genes Of All Personnel (interesting, although eugenics claim seems overblown)
We're not ready for do it yourself genetic analysis (To me, most MDs and people with public health experience are cautious about DTC genomics; this is one reason why)
Other:
The lessons are clear
Monetary Morality
What Part Of "Nonviolence" Is Hard To Understand?
Outsized Pay on Wall Street Persists
The social sciences deal with…
mikethemadbiologist | January 16, 2011Happy Sunday. Links for you. Science:
Private ICU rooms in hospitals aren't just a luxury -- they could be a lifesaver
National Zoo's Anteater Pup Thrives after Rocky Start
Do private ICU rooms really reduce HAIs?
Does the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" exist?
Next generation sequencing information management and analysis system for Galaxy (just heard Brad speak. If you're a small center that works with a lot of faculty, Galaxy seems like a really good thing to have)
Other:
Don't you know that you can count me out
Tea party in the Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona…
mikethemadbiologist | January 14, 2011It's Friday. Here are some links. Science:
Why you CAN have your $1000 genome - so long as you learn what to do with it
A Physicist Solves the City
Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street (Got Transaction Tax?)
How does bleach work?
Other:
"Don't politicize this tragedy!"
Let's Get This Straight
Metaphors for the weak and frightened
Weimar Politics in AZ
Drawing The Line
The right wing isn't going to stop violent rhetoric
The Progressive Case Against Obama's New Team
It's the lies more than anything
mikethemadbiologist | January 13, 2011Thank goodness it's...Thursday. Crap. Some links to get you through. Science:
Oldest Homo sapiens fossil? Journalistic vaporware
A Fistful of Teeth - Do the Qesem Cave Fossils Really Change Our Understanding of Human Evolution?
How many species of elephant? (with bonus rants)
Other:
How a Different America Responded to the Great Depression (economically, Americans were more liberal back then. Most uncivil)
U.S. Still Richly Rewarding Banksters-- Demonizing Schoolteachers
What Newark Schools Need
Contrary to the NYT's Assertion, Japan Does Not "Face a Looming Demographic Squeeze"
Charlie,…
mikethemadbiologist | January 12, 2011It's snowing! Nuthin' to do but read some links. Science:
Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?
Next Generation Sequencing adds thousands of new genes
African Wild Dogs and the Allee Effect
Other:
The Economics of Economists' Ethics: If they read their own research, economists might disclose conflicts of interest more often
Pentagon cuts have impact in Mass.: In a state where defense is crucial to economy, losses could be offset
The End of New Deal Liberalism
No More Security
Who is Jared Lee Loughner?
No, the Jobs Crisis Isn't Over: What's the Progressive Plan?
The top marginal…
mikethemadbiologist | January 11, 2011All ones in today's date. Deepak Chopra is no doubt proclaiming some mystical significance. Let's counteract that with some intelligent links. Science:
Hope and Change coming to Texas State School Board: Dr. Michael Soto!
UPDATED Asian Carp DNA Found: Nothing Between Them and Great Lakes
A simple change would help the NIH grant process contribute less to the leaky pipeline
Other:
It's Time to Rethink the Charity Deduction
Norquist Triumphant
An Extremely Long Metaphor to Explain Mortgage Chaos
Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
We Are Ruled By Truly Stupid…
mikethemadbiologist | January 10, 2011A melancholic Monday. Let's improve the mood with some links. Science:
Energy Drinks
Why do women cry? Obviously, it's so they don't get laid.
NDM-1: More Evidence It Started in India
Conquering an Infinite Cave
Other:
The Shameful Attack on Public Employees
$1 Million Survey on Newark Public School Reform Proves Inconclusive
N.J. Supreme Court to decide on politics behind school funding
What Have We Learned from the Great Recession?
Modern monetary theory and inflation - Part 1
Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as "human shields"
YOU'VE BEEN VERBED
So Naomi Wolf is just…
mikethemadbiologist | January 9, 2011Links for you. Science:
George Will and Cognitive Dissonance
When adaptation doesn't happen
Tough bacteria use domesticated viruses to resist antibiotics
Ancient Jamaican bird used wings to go clubbing
Slimy secrets: Biofilm finding may provide new direction in antimicrobial research
Other:
What Do We Really Spend on Defense?
$400,000 for a Fish?
The Plan to Blame Unions For Everything
Republicans Read The Constitution Today. Maybe They'll Learn Something.
When the Messiah comes, Israel will deport him
Prison Populations, Crime and "Present Orientedness"
Resolutions someone should make for…
mikethemadbiologist | January 8, 2011Kinda snowy still, but no accumulation. Doesn't stop the links though. Science:
Bees in freefall as study shows sharp US decline: Disease and low genetic diversity might have caused US bumblebee decline over the past few decades, say scientists
Autism and the Affluent
On Tame Sows and Wild Boars
Other:
Dave Barry's 2010 Year in Review
How the Other Half Lives
Washington Post Somehow Doesn't Realize People Care About The Economy
If Homeschoolers Want Tax Credits, They Need to be Regulated
Breastfeeding: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
Tax-Exempt Bonds for Beginners (I wrote about this…
mikethemadbiologist | January 7, 2011It's supposed to snow here. Kinda. Sorta. Not really. Well, just in case, let's lay in a supply of links. Science:
Grad School Cost of Living
'Rev the Scientific Engine.' Great. How?
The Importance of Vacation
Other:
The world is socialist
Cory Doctorow: Net Neutrality for Writers: It's All About the Leverage
Tobacco and alcohol kill large numbers of Americans every day
There's One Huge State Budget Crisis That Everyone Is Refusing To Talk About
Taking Aim at Public Workers
To Beat Back Poverty, Pay the Poor
mikethemadbiologist | January 5, 2011Happy Wednesday! Links for you. Science:
Pacifists or pugilists?
A Modest Proposal: Take "News" out of "Science News" (a point that could be made about most news reporting)
A big experiment in big science: Broad Institute's attack on disease brings answers, questions
Other:
Year 2010, Republicans in Their Own Words, Part 3: It's a Party!
Polar Bears 'Playing' with Spy Video Cameras
Fascinating 1860 Map of the U.S. Slave Population
Say, What? (about the difference between charity and social obligation)
GOP House chair pushing TSA privatization while contractor is campaign donor (with the…
mikethemadbiologist | January 4, 2011Links for you. Science:
Why I don't debate creationists anymore, part whatever
Science is not dead (Superb treatment of the decline effect)
The science vs. creationism debate exemplified on a facebook page
Other:
Massachusetts Sets Targets to Slash Carbon Emissions
Most Minimum Wage Earners Can't Afford Necessities of Life
New York Provides A Snowy Glimpse Into America's Future
Pollster Reveal: Few Candidates Saw Deficit Reduction As A Major Issue (It's jobs. Someone's been saying that for a while now...)
Suicides in India Revealing How Men Made a Mess of Microcredit (this is worse than Big…