Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | October 24, 2010Better late than never. Links for you. Science:
Bacteria using bacteria
Why boomerangs come back
This too, too solid flesh...
Double whammy reveals cholesterol gene
Colourful parrot feathers resist bacterial degradation
Other:
St Kern's way is the American Way
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann responds to Rep. Barton
Please Just Make Sullivan Stop Writing About This
Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana: Prop 19 will open up California to hemp, a multi-billion-dollar crop that has been a staple of human agriculture for thousands of years.
The Culture of Poverty Debate
mikethemadbiologist | October 23, 2010A nice, sunny Saturday. If you're stuck inside, and you don't feel like calling up Anita Hill and harassing her for no good reason, here are some links for you. Science:
Curious controversial case of colony collapse disorder afflicting bees in U.S.
Royce Murray and Caveat Emptor
50 More Urban Species #42: Phidippus audax
A hot bed of germ-y journalism (aka germs on gadgets)
Other:
TheDC OP-ED: One nation, under fraud (a good, if long summary, of the foreclosure mess. Notable as it occurs in a conservative publication)
This teacher reacts to seeing "Waiting for Superman"
Foreclosure Fraud:…
mikethemadbiologist | October 22, 2010Happy Friday. Links for you. Science:
Science Blogs vs Scientific Literature
A Spray of DNA to Keep the Robbers Away (this shouldn't work, but people are stupid)
Bacteria 'R' Us
How to hold an NSF panel hostage
Am I partly Jewish? Testing ancestry hypotheses with 23andMe data
Other:
Part Two: How white flight brought down the economy (it's interesting, but I'm not sure it's racism sensu stricto, but prejudice mingled with concerns over educational performance)
Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City?
Tax The Rich Now
Contingent Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and…
mikethemadbiologist | October 21, 2010Managed to miss all of the rain today. I'll celebrate with some links. Science:
Pessimistic Pooches? Depressed Doggies? Not So Fast!
How Fractals Can Explain What's Wrong with Wall Street
Völkerwanderung back with a vengeance
Other:
Public Education: Stop the Attacks and Fund Quality Education for All
'Suburban Nation': 10 Things To Hate About Suburban Sprawl (PHOTOS)
How Religion Is Killing Our Most Vulnerable Youth
The Dying Art of Political Explanation
Politicians, Watch Your Grammar
Minimal Wages for All (the argument at the end is key)
How did the American Left lose the working…
mikethemadbiologist | October 20, 2010Happy Wednesday. Links for you. Science:
Experiment vs. Theory: The Eternal Debate
What? The NSF allows unfunded people to review their grants?
Honey Bees Are Not Essential to Our Ecosystem
Other:
The Real Problem Behind the Foreclosure Crisis
"Perhaps"
Why Nerds Are Unpopular
Why Do Americans Have Yards?
Bro's Before Ho's and Fraternity Hazing Lows
mikethemadbiologist | October 18, 2010Happy Monday. Links for you. Science:
Throat bacteria that destroy invaders
Nuclear receptors show evolution is the greatest tinkerer
Why do women shop and men hunt?
Other:
How the Foreclosure mess would play out in an actual Republic Of Law and an actual Free Market
Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies, 2: What is a Note, and Why is it So Important?
Blame Employers for the Jobs Crisis
The Prison in Which We Put Our Children: In Memory of Sladjana Vidovic and Her Fellow Victims (violence by kids against other kids is a crime, and not acceptable)
Christians Let Houses Burn
mikethemadbiologist | October 16, 2010It's very hard to squeeze a president and his entourage, plus visitors, into Back Bay. It's not too crowded for some links though. Science:
The Earth Microbiome Project
Human Ancestors Hunted by Prehistoric Beasts
The unconscious expert
14 amazingly cool research facilities
Other:
DCCC Abandoning Weak Members Who Followed Their Awful Advice For Two Years
What's the Matter With Kids These Days?
Financial Institutions
Gutsy Goats Caught Scaling Super-Steep Dam (Pics)
Guest Post: Tim Geithner's Magical Mystery Tour Of TARP Propaganda Has Little Use For Truth
mikethemadbiologist | October 14, 2010Lotsa links. Science:
Can't we all just get long: evolution of altruism edition
The Failed Promise of Genomics
Natural selection in our time
Toxic algae rapidly kills coral
Other:
Unanticipating The Great Depression and the Great Recession
La vida en los Estados Unidos
Why Foreclosure Fraud Is So Dangerous to Property Rights
T inspector surprised to learn bus 100 feet away from him seemed about to burst into flames
America's dish detergent wars: The fuss over phosphate bans provides an object lesson in the paranoid politics of the Tea Party's anti-liberal backlash
Why printing money makes…
mikethemadbiologist | October 13, 2010Wednesday. Halfway towards the weekend (don't tell Scott Kern!). Some links to get you by. Science:
Gary Olsen's Talk on Lateral Gene Transfer at SDSU
It was the plague
The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi'
Other:
Mini vs Mega Burbs
Remember Cramdown? (I do!)
Hey, Small Spender
Shadowy players in a new class war
We Have to Trim the Bloated Pentagon Budget and Use the Cash for a 'Green Dividend' to Create Good Jobs (someone else remembers the 'peace dividend')
mikethemadbiologist | October 12, 2010A Tuesday that feels like a Monday. Blech. Anyway, links for you. Science:
Whooping cough in California: deaths caused by the anti-vaccination movement
Big cats hunting pumpkins
Photo safari - lion's mane jellyfish (in an amusing case of tangled tentacles)
Other:
American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress
Superman Does Not Exist and Teachers' Unions are Not the Villains
Musical chairs
Running For Cover
COGNITIVE SLAVES
mikethemadbiologist | October 11, 2010Links for you. Science:
Staph infection traps lobstermen
Epigenetics - what revolution?
How scientific journalism is, and should be done
Other:
Why I Won't Blog for U.S. News and World Report (this makes Pepsigate look tame by comparison)
Jim Quinn: Consumer Deleveraging = Commercial Real Estate Collapse (to mix metaphors, commercial real estate is Big Shitpile's other shoe waiting to drop)
Why Congress Doesn't Care About Unemployment
Montana woman arrested after controversial print shredded in Loveland Museum
Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite
mikethemadbiologist | October 10, 2010Today is 10/10/10; no doubt, woomeisters are reading great significance into the date. Instead of reading TEH STOOPD, read some good links. Science:
Scott Kern's Message
Cool Evolution Trick: Platinum Turns Baby Snails Into Slugs
Other:
Which Came First: The Regulation Or The Egg?
Job Tracker (find out who is firing U.S. workers and shipping jobs overseas in your neighborhood)
Why the Art Robinsons of America matter
Why Gallup's LV screen is the way it is (will Democratic turnout be at a historical low?)
Exclusive Bombshell of Foreclosure Fraud - Full Deposition of TAMMIE LOU KAPUSTA Law…
mikethemadbiologist | October 9, 2010Merry Saturday. Links for you. Science:
C. diff: Blame hospitals? Or food?
Stop eating before you become obese
A Marine Life Encyclopedia
Why I spoofed science journalism, and how to fix it
Other:
The Average Is Not the Typical...
Exclusive: First Autistic Presidential Appointee Speaks Out (deaf people have had the same arguments)
Larry Summers and the Subversion of Economics
Baltimore's New Teacher Contract--And How It's Different from D.C.'s
mikethemadbiologist | October 7, 2010Sun! Really! Now with extra bonus links. Science:
Disease + mosquitoes + climate change = Uh-oh
There was an old lady who swallowed a bat (and its viruses) to catch the insects (and their viruses) to catch the plants (and their viruses) and there are some bacteria in there too (and their viruses)...
Other:
Thoughts on a Plan B
INTERLUDE--STEPHEN WAS TINY, DESPERATE, UNWELL
TO THE FINLAND STATION
I Was A Firefighter, And I Am Disgusted. (this hits all the points)
"Guest Workers" and U.S. Unemployment (Rather makes the key point that most visas for 'skilled labor' are actually for low-paid…
mikethemadbiologist | October 6, 2010Rumor has it that the rain is supposed to stop tomorrow. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Your disease, your fault
How Science Museums Are Promoting Civil Religion-Science Dialogue (I really like the way the Smithsonian's human origins exhibit dealt with religion too)
More is better? Received widsom in the tribe of science.
Socially-Inept Scientists
Other:
The War Addicts
Payday Lenders: How Wall Street's "Undercover Brothers" Exploit Minorities
Drone Warfare on Trial
Midnight Shopping On The Brink Of Poverty
Christianity in the Military: Are Chaplains Becoming Increasingly…
mikethemadbiologist | October 5, 2010I've got a bunch of education-related links that I'll never get around to blogging about. Maybe you will? Anyway, here they are:
Has education reform jumped the shark? A teacher says 'yes'
What 'Superman' got wrong, point by point
Obama's Education Agenda Prioritizes "Reform" Over Resources
Are charter schools really innovative?
Obama Loses a Mayor: Adrian Fenty's defeat puts Washington, D.C.'s aggressive school reform efforts, spearheaded by schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, on the chopping block--and is a lesson for the president from voters.
PERSISTENTLY LOW-PERFORMING INCENTIVES
Left Ed…
mikethemadbiologist | October 4, 2010Just another Manic Monday...with links! Science:
Lab Notebook
Sex, Evolution, and the Case of the Missing Polygamists
Spam Journalism #81
Other:
Leftists Should Take Credit for Bringing Down Democrats
Full Employment: The golden age is in us
Signing Out
Dwight Was Right
Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Deal
We can conquer unemployment
mikethemadbiologist | October 3, 2010Fall is definitely here. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Science journalists: no more simplistic pseudo-genetics, please (it would help a lot if journalists started using the word allele)
Strange insect encounter: Carrion Beetle with Mites
Other:
You're Very Stupid; Now Vote for Me.
I Trust It Is Now Clear Democrats Hate The Left
We Need A Tax and Spend Party Again
Welcome to my Sweatshop
FAILURE TO PERCEIVE
mikethemadbiologist | October 2, 2010Happy Saturday. Links for you. Science:
NIH-Wide Correlations Between Overall Impact Scores and Criterion Scores
Why can't I reuse these tables and figures?
When Speech Recognition Software Attacks!
Obsessed With Genes (Not Jeans), This Teen Analyzes Family DNA
Other:
Student suspended for sharing antibiotics.
White America Has Lost Its Mind: The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion
For US Corporations the Whole of the Law Shall Be 'Do What Thou Wilt'
James Fallows on the Whinging Rich, as Exemplified by University of Chicago Law Professor Todd…
mikethemadbiologist | October 1, 2010Thank the All Father it's Frejyasdaeg. Links for you. Science:
The Passion of the Scientist (Science is a job, not a calling; also, wives now have jobs--some of them are even scientists!)
Next-Gen Sequencing Software: The Present and the Future
Dolphin species attempt 'common language'
Why dampness and homeopathy are key dangers in their fields
Other:
Boston Medical Center gets screwed by the Massachusetts government
HOW TO PAY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY (a bit intensive, but the summary paragraphs interspersed throughout are well worth it)
Using multiple price indexes to measure changes in…