Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | December 10, 2010The work week is over. Now we get the work weekend! Anyway, links for you. Science:
Season of Birth May Have Long-Term Effects on Personality, Study Suggests (in mice, usual caveats apply, etc.)
The economic case for open access in academic publishing
When's the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts? (Bora told me this years ago, but it's still good advice)
Other:
FESTIVAL OF DIM LIGHTS: A Children's Treasury of Sarah Palin Facebook Commenters On Hanukkah
Escalators: Picking Losers
Trade policy and job loss
Wikileaks And The End of the Open Internet
Not Crass, Class
Note to Religious Liberals:…
mikethemadbiologist | December 9, 2010Links for you:
The NCAA Should Shut Down Notre Dame's Football Program
Casting Light on "The Moment of Truth"
9.8%: The Number That The Deficit Commission Left Out
WikiLeaks and the Myth of Objective Journalism (the key point is that journalists serve as a filter, but why should they be the filter?)
Judges struggled to limit O'Brien: Record examined as Patrick seeks sway over probation
Obama's Deficit Frankenstein
The American Jobs Emergency Requires Action
The Infernal Commissions of Elites Should Give Way To One of Real People (I would set the income cutoff at $75,000, but the point is…
mikethemadbiologist | December 7, 2010Links for you. Science:
Congress Critters enlist the taxpayers in the war on NSF funded science
Another reason to avoid visiting Answers in Genesis
Polluted Air Increases Obesity Risk in Young Animals: Exposure to polluted air early in life led to an accumulation of abdominal fat and insulin resistance in mice even if they ate a normal diet, according to new research.
Citizens Against Peer Review
Eric Cantor Wants Our Grandmas to Decide Science Funding
Other:
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Credit Cards in Real Time
No Free Parking
Web bug reveals browsing history: Porn sites are…
mikethemadbiologist | December 6, 2010Merry Monday. Links for you. Science:
Antibiotics need to become controlled substances and regulated
The toll due to secondhand smoke
Oil, Ploughs, and Gender Roles
NBC's 'Biggest Loser' Contestants: Caricatures, Not Role Models
Other:
What Good Is Wall Street? Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless.
Congressmember Bob Filner: Confronting racist Tea Party violence on election night
The Great Urban Communication Divide
The Jane Hamshers Of The Left
Freezing Out Hope
mikethemadbiologist | December 4, 2010Links for you. Science:
Heavy sleep debt extracts a price for patients
More Bad News from Neverland. The FDA Guidance on Nosocomial Pneumonia.
If You're Gonna Touch My Junk, At Least Grab the Data
Other:
You Are No Longer Free To Move About the Country
Willful Self Destruction
Why We Fight (about neo-Confederates)
Meet the Hazzards
The Diary of a Wheelchair Experiment
mikethemadbiologist | December 3, 2010I wonder if Julian Assange has any information related to Pepsigate. While you ponder that, here are some links for you. Science:
Data visualization is cool
One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age
Meet the pangolin, the mammal that thinks it's a reptile
Other:
When Downtown Crossing had Christmas Magic (Amazing pictures)
Fairness and the cost of life for the poor in Britain
Ireland is Bankrupt...a letter from an Irish citizen
Taxing the Rich: It's All Relative
Parliamentary Parties in a Presidential System
mikethemadbiologist | December 2, 2010Happy Thursday! Better late than never. Science:
10 benefits (for my career) of blogging/tweeting/etc #fb
Insects: slaves in a fungal nation
Restricting Gene Patents: A Pro-Market Agenda
Other:
Guest blog: Now Nearing the BPS Lottery Starting Line... (As I've written several times, cities will ultimately turn around completely only if they can improve education)
Why men rape (Yes, the feminists were right)
Underclothes That Display The 4th Amendment When X-Rayed by TSA (I want an undershirt that says, "JUNK", with a big arrow pointing towards my 'groin area.' I like being helpful!)…
mikethemadbiologist | December 1, 2010Wednesday. Blah. Links--science goes firstest:
Thanksgiving Science: Tryptophacts and Tryptophantasies
Where have all the data gone?
The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook
Other:
More thoughts on junk touching
Will Saletan Seemingly Determined to Miss the Point on Scanning vs. Groping
"Effects of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession on American Households"
Sarah Palin's Brand of 'Feminism' More Popular With Men Than Women: Palin peddles a shallow narcissism dressed in 'empowering' feminist language.
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the Congress with His Head Up His Ass While…
mikethemadbiologist | November 30, 2010Happy Tuesday. Links for you. Science:
GQ Rockstars of Science - the demographics
New research on bedbug insecticide resistance
The antidepressant reboxetine: A headdesk moment in science
Other:
Bernanke hints dollar standard is flawed (trade war? Could be)
Learning About KIPP: Lesson 1
Is Student Debt the Next Front in the Consumer Debt Crisis? (problem is that it's nearly impossible to default on)
The real reason for grope-athon and porn-scanners
The cost of being cheap
Falling in love with a life of adventure when the grown-ups want you to go into accounting
mikethemadbiologist | November 29, 2010Links for you. Science:
Let Loose the Coyotes? Chicago Embraces Rat-Hunting Predators (if they go after those annoying little yippy dogs, that's an extra bonus)
The boundaries of mental illness
On jargon, and why it matters in science writing
Other:
The Mandate
BARRY RUBIN GETS THE FJM TREATMENT
LOOK AT ALL THAT RED!
The Problem of the Humanities
Stan Greenberg: Afghanistan War Likely Cause of Primary Challenge
mikethemadbiologist | November 28, 2010Links for you. Science:
How complexity leads to simplicity (video)
Lost & Cast Away: Ten Amazing Uninhabited Islands
Mapping fitness: landscapes, topographic maps, and Seattle
Other:
Mistaken assumptions: jobs, business and tax cuts
Corporate America Hearts Obama (from 2008, but worth reading in light of the last two years)
GE to state: Give us money or these jobs buy it
Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving
Compromise on Social Security and Medicare? Why My Center-Left Friends are Wrong
NONE DARE CALL IT SABOTAGE....
mikethemadbiologist | November 27, 2010Links for you. Science
The weird evolutionary story of cranberries
T. Rex Tail Built for Speed
BP Controlling University Research, and Professor Who Downplayed Oil Spill Called a "Shill" By Fellow Professor
Other:
The 'Giving' Season
Paycheck Fairness Dies in the Senate
Virtuous Sabotage
Did The Rich Cause The Deficit?
Why Can't We Be the Job Creators? (we are: demand creates jobs, not corporations, who, if they could, want to shed jobs)
mikethemadbiologist | November 26, 2010Links for you. Science:
Friday Weird Science: That MotherF**king HURTS!!!
Cane toads are evolving into super-invaders
Bacterial resistance to chronic antibiotics, and why it's a problem
Other:
Repudiating Liberalism or Obama
When School Improvement, Seniority and Talking Points Collide
Report looks at role of poverty, parents in student success
Aging
Hiding From Reality
mikethemadbiologist | November 25, 2010Links for you. Science:
Natural Selection and Macroevolution in your lifetime
Gluttonous amoeba
White House science office faces lawsuit
Other:
Unemployed Councils, Eviction Riots, and the New Deal
Misleading tax and spend rhetoric--public worker "overcompensation" and "too-high pensions"
Welcome To Another Of Ken Buck's Ethical Misfires (where does the GOP dig these guys up?)
Ezra Looks Over There At the Debt-to-GDP Ratio
Seating All the Americas at the Same Table
mikethemadbiologist | November 24, 2010Links for you. Science:
Money CAN buy happiness...well, sort of.
Bridges that resist the rust: Strong, lightweight, easy-to-assemble arches with no steel bars may solve a New England problem
Other:
The Fastidious President
Calling Bullshit on The News
The ongoing, albeit amusing, battle to save Bristol
Tax the transactions?
Ensign played Reid in Angle debate prep; Angle once said dictators can have "good ideas"
How the elections taught me to understand a comic book
mikethemadbiologist | November 23, 2010Links for you. Science:
7 Deadliest Bacteria on Earth
The Army Ant Entourage (some amazing pictures here)
Graduate Student Becomes Target of Choice for Animal Rights Extremists
Taxing soft drinks to combat obesity
Other:
Unintended Consequences: Raising Retirement Age Could Cause Spike in Disability Payments
The Ten Lessons of Rahmses -- Lesson Seven (Daley makes Menino look fantastic)
Republicans Like Eric Cantor Aren't Actually Serious People
Hippies Punched
Sheriff Dart: 5% of Chicago's Foreclosures DON'T Have Problems
mikethemadbiologist | November 22, 2010Links for you. Science:
More to Pseudomonads than the kiwifruit crisis....
Rare Golden Sea Robin Landed and Released At Captain Joe's
A de novo paradigm for mental retardation
Other:
As the stomach turns
The NYT's Apocalypse: $1 Trillion a Year in Interest on the National Debt
UK Students trash British Conservatives' HQ ... the children's crusade
Businesses Do Not Create Jobs
Braun: Heroic N.J. teacher was sacrificed for political cause in hidden video (movement conservatives are slime)
Begging For Grown-ups (the last half is worth the read)
mikethemadbiologist | November 20, 2010Still kinda nice out. If you're stuck inside though, here are some links. Science:
News break: 1 in 7 Medicare patients seriously harmed by hospitals
Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
New Bacteria-Killing Light Can Destroy Superbugs With the Flip of a Switch
Other:
Seriously, Jail the Bankers or This Economy Will Never Fully Recover
Disinflation Continues
Health Care and Bailout Votes May Have Hurt Democrats
Touched by a Stranger (for some 'freedom touching' is more than a little creepy, it opens old wounds)
Lad tricks bully into drinking urine, needs advice (the bully deserved it.…
mikethemadbiologist | November 19, 2010It's Friday! Links for you. Science:
Evolutionary trees help to convict men who knowingly infected women with HIV
Superbugs call for super changes in drug-sale rules
My delightfully uninteresting genome
FDA Artificial Pancreas Hearing: Beating a Path to the Real World
Other:
Because This Type of Shit Happens Every Day
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Death vs. Taxes During a Storm
The Culture War Goes Ballroom
An open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Albany
This Much I Am Sure Of
mikethemadbiologist | November 17, 2010Links for you. Science:
You (patent pending)
Drug testing and basic statistics
HPV Vaccine: Why Are So Few Women Getting Vaccinated? (when HuffPo gets it right, reward good behavior)
Other:
Vouchers only for the faithful
Teachers Take Charge To Save Ailing Public Schools (interestingly, the very first charter schools were created by teachers who wanted independence from centralized administration)
Glenn Beck's Anti-Semitic Attacks
The Mandate
Generation Why? (since I'm a Facebook Luddite, I'm inclined to agree)
The man who writes your students' papers tells his story