Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | November 16, 2010Cloudy, gray. Maybe some links will help? Science:
The likelihood of pollen from GE cotton causing harm to the environment is about as likely as a poodle escaping into the wild
Empiric antibiotics in the ICU
Study shows reusable bags contain high levels of lead content
Other:
Money and the Midterms: Are the Parties Over? Interview with Thomas Ferguson
Straight Talk In Troubled Times
2 Dems claim Arianna Huffington stole website idea (Considering Peter Daou is one of the plaintiffs, this could get very interesting)
TSA Backlash week
Schools missing mark on MCAS (it seems impossible to expect…
mikethemadbiologist | November 15, 2010Just another Manic Monday. Links for you. Science:
Time Warp: Recent right-wing rejections of Einstein's theory of relativity echo Nazi dismissals of what they called 'Jewish Physics' (they're not attacking science, they're just trying to defend their culture space)
Juiced
Serious Fun With Numbers: We're drowning in data, but few reporters know how to use them (you could also hire some scientists who know how to do this. Just saying)
What It's Like to Live in a Science Museum for a Month
Other:
Jewish Leaders Take Beck to Task for Creepy Soros Accusation: Scurrilous, Grotesque, Monstrous…
mikethemadbiologist | November 14, 2010Yesterday, it was 62 F. In Boston. In mid-November. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Obesity behaves like a contagious disease agent
30,000 people is not actually that many people
The world's best underwater photographs 2010
Other:
My Application for Peter Thiel
Tragedy of the technocrats
Second, somewhat positive thoughts about the Catfood Commission
Erskine Bowles, Morgan Stanley, and the Deficit Commission
Fix The Economy
mikethemadbiologist | November 12, 2010Links for you. Science:
Obfuscatory Vaccination Math
New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years
Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
Other:
Segregation: The Invisible Elephant in the Foreclosure Debate
This Is How Michael Caine Speaks
Can liberalism save capitalism from conservatism?
Analyzing crazy beliefs
Also, Too, And Such (anyone who lives in a city will agree wholeheartedly)
Faith-Based Economics
The great education/jobs deception
What If ? HOLC
mikethemadbiologist | November 11, 2010It's Veterans Day. Here are some links. Science:
The American System
Humans aren't the only creatures that grow their own food. Leaf-cutter ants, trees, and even protists do it too
Energy and science in America are in big, big trouble
Other:
Donovan McNabb, the Race Card and the Giving Tree
Budget Deficits and Trade Deficits: NYT Reporters Do Not Understand National Income Accounting
Olbermann Suspension is Lunacy (of course, this has nothing to do with ethics as traditionally understood, but corporate marketing)
MarkZism: What's Not To Love?
The New Religion for America's Jews: Israel
mikethemadbiologist | November 10, 2010Links for you. Science:
An ID anniversary missed
The case against evidence: From fingerprints to high-tech CSI, forensic science plays a much smaller role than you would think
Great Migrations
Other:
Huzzah! Take That, Socialism!
White House thinks it was the stimulus that killed them (so they're going to try to win election by not helping people?)
Affordable Care and the Election
Digg Patriots Censorship Part 2: The Evidence
Will Education Be a Bipartisan Issue in 2011?
mikethemadbiologist | November 9, 2010Still at a meeting. But I've got links. Science:
Vaccination, Confirmation Bias, and Knowing Your Audience
Yes, please, let's have hearings on the evidence of climate change (a bit optimistic, but, if they happen, I hope this is how they play out)
Bear versus Bison
Other:
Why a Soccer Momma for Obama Hung Up Her Cleats
George Takei gets medieval on this douchebag
Music Education in Public Schools: Benefits and Challenges
How Obama Enables Rush: President Obama lowered taxes. Why doesn't the country know that? Rick Perlstein on how Rush Limbaugh helped mislead a nation--and why the Democrats…
mikethemadbiologist | November 8, 2010I'm at a meeting today, but no reason not to give you some links:
No Half Steps, No Equivocation
"Protest works. Just look at the proof"
Nov. 2: The Death Knell of Corporate Liberalism
Here We Go Again
Shirts vs. skins (I, too, have wondered why people think Sestak is so much better than Specter: Specter actually pandered to Democrats, which is more than Sestak, who went back on his campaign promises, ever did)
Nobody Cares About Process
Skeptical at the spectacle: moderate American liberalism jumps the shark
Another Mathom From The Time Closet *
mikethemadbiologist | November 7, 2010ScienceBlogs was screwed up earlier, but we're back in business. Have some free links--they're on the house. Science:
Climate change legislation didn't hurt Democrats
Same poop, different gut: For physicians and researchers alike, fecal transplants present an opportunity to gain insight into disease
Beyond the Genome: Uncovering evolution's driving forces in the human genome
Getting a firm grasp on HIV control
Other:
All 95 Candidates Who Pledged Support For Net Neutrality Lost On Tuesday
Meet Congresswoman-Elect Sandy Adams: Conspiracy-Theorist, Religious Extremist (don't forget the…
mikethemadbiologist | November 6, 2010It's Friday Saturday. Celebrate with some links. Science:
Alarm over "pig MRSA" -- but not in the US
Heritability - what you get from your folks
What Do We Want?
Other:
Boston schools at a crossroads (Harmon is right, but he needs to convince parents)
How the Banks Put the Economy Underwater
Flashback: How Donald Luskin Earned His Title (of World's Stupidest Person)
Coming Boomer pension cuts: what impact on economy?
Rattner's Overhaul
The Battle of Harris County: A firsthand look at early voting in Houston and allegations of voter intimidation
mikethemadbiologist | November 5, 2010Deep thought: Tom Brady changed his hair to look like Justin Bieber because he's going bald. Anyway, these links can't be any worse than that lead in. Science:
Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs
Herding Firesheep in New York City
Other:
Parents' effort key to child's educational performance
Paint it Blacker
On Wall Street: All Reward, No Risk
Year-round school gains ground around U.S.
The Big Lie About Social Security
America's war on teachers
Insidious Force Threatens Military Morale
mikethemadbiologist | November 4, 2010Too many scientific meetings, not enough Mad Biologist. Still enough though for some links. Science:
The Devolution of Evolution: Why evolution and biosystematics courses must be included in all biomedical curricula.
"Gene-whiz" science strikes again: Researchers discover a liberal gene
Raising Giant Insects to Unravel Ancient Oxygen
The problem with graduate student training fellowships
Other:
The World Liberal Opportunists Made
In which we betray our gender
Come Saturday Morning: Why the Professional Right is Obsessed with Alinsky
Unclear on the concept: shouldn't we want LOWER housing…
mikethemadbiologist | November 3, 2010Hopefully, I'm somewhere in the vicinity of National Airport. Here are some links for you. Science:
Wonder of wonders
Your PowerPoint and You
9 September 1945 : The "Bug" is Born
Biodiversity: More complicated than you think--A new, giant virus is confounding old certainties
Other:
Caucasian Nation
Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable
Lessons of 1995
The Devolution, And Subsequent Evolution Of Obama's Views On Marriage. (Apparently, Obama was for it before he was against it, and now he's kinda sorta for it, maybe)
How…
mikethemadbiologist | November 2, 2010Links for you. Science:
Lessons from a Recovering Postdoc
A Caterpillar to Avoid
Stories vs. Statistics
Other:
Municipal bans on smoking in restaurants and bars are highly controversial, but history shows they can also be highly effective. But are all smoking bans equally successful?
Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn? It's not fascism yet; but if the Tea Party manages to get its hands on the levers of power, it will be.
Misrepresenting the Moynihan Report--Will It Ever Stop? (No)
Getting out their old Red Shirts...
Automation Insurance: Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs
mikethemadbiologist | November 1, 2010I'm on the road, but that's no reason to give you some links. Science:
The worst idea this side of "Youre Not Helping".
An unpersuasive approach
The Neanderthal Romeo and Human Juliet hypothesis
Other:
Main Street America and getting to be middle class (one more way income inequality destroys the middle class)
If you don't like being called teabaggers....
What Was the Hipster?
For Thee But Not For Me
Blogger Meeting with Obama: A Missed Opportunity
"they are purging nonperforming students at an alarming rate"
mikethemadbiologist | October 31, 2010Happy Halloween! Links for you. Science:
The Rare Mountain Mammoth
Domesticating the Fennec: Dog Domestication 2.0?
The Allais Paradox
Other:
The Myth of the Bad Teacher
Hard questions loom for patronage 'king': Investigations are swirling around Representative Thomas Petrolati, a legislative leader with huge sway over Probation Department hiring and a history of acting as if ordinary rules do not apply to him.
Boot the Blue Dogs
The Myth of Charter Schools
Behind the Washington Consesus on School Reform Is the Washington Consensus on Poverty
GOP House Candidate Jesse Kelly Says 'It's Our…
mikethemadbiologist | October 30, 2010Thank goodness it's...Saturday. Crap. Well, I've got some links, anyway. Science:
Disease Experts: Antibiotics Are a Natural Resource that Needs Protection
Will Gulf science be compromised by politics?
Census of the Science Blogosphere 2000 to 2010: If you blog about science, you should fill this out
Other:
Authenticity
Enough Is Enough on Tax Cuts for Wealthy
NO MORE TEACHERS' DIRTY LOOKS
Why Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty Lost
Is it fair to be angry at Lindsay Lohan? The starlet heads back to jail after her latest fall off the wagon -- and reminds us of the realities of addiction (…
mikethemadbiologist | October 29, 2010It's Friday. Links for you. Science
Why don't we just leave it to antimicrobials?
Influenza Vaccine Mandates
Few health benefits from genomic discovery
Other:
On "looking forward, not back"
How to fix our schools
Ultimate $uperpower: Supersized dollars drive "Waiting for Superman" agenda
Backdoor Bailout, Tea Party Fakeout: The GOP's Secret $90 Billion Gift to Wall Street (describes how students will get screwed through loans)
CFTC Corruption: One Judge Accuses Another of Protecting the Banks (Dems could do well for themselves if they impeached this guy)
mikethemadbiologist | October 26, 2010What a difference a good night's sleep makes. I feel like I could conquer the world. I expect to hit Asia Minor sometime tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some links for you. Science:
Cracking the Mystery of How Sloths Got Long Necks
Smoking bans are good for barkeeps
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
Other:
The GOP Drive To Reinstitute Feudalism Gathers Steam
Stephanie Kelton: Are There Spending Constraints on Governments Sovereign in their Currency?
How Many Incompetent Teachers Are There, Really?
Story time, says these education journalists
Waiting for Superman... to get bored and drop you…
mikethemadbiologist | October 25, 2010Links for you. Science:
How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture
The Darkside of Scientific Competition
Is There Really a Systematic Problem in Medical Publishing? Or Just a Reporter With a Narrative?
Shifting to Second Gear in Obesity Prevention?
Other:
Concerned Taxpayers of America Represents Exactly Two Taxpayers
Texas Crackpot Louie Gohmert Wants Christian Zombies To Take Over America So "God Has Something To Smile About" (the reality of the sanctimonious right)
Theirs is the Lord our God, we are to worship no other gods before theirs…