Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | September 29, 2010Big ball of fire in sky. Is it the sun? Anyway, links for you:
An Open Letter: To the Awesome Speaker
Getting even with the odds ratio
Other:
How Obama Screws His Base
Paul Ryan is a Man Who Takes His Responsibilities as a Public Official Seriously
Left Ed: Waiting for Sanity
If the Nazis Do It, It's Torture
Behind the drumbeat for charter schools
mikethemadbiologist | September 28, 2010Links for you. Sciencey stuff:
Four types of scientists (While I think Myers-Briggs is crap in that the underlying normally distributed data are shoehorned into binary variables, it's a pretty funny post)
Former Air Force Officers: UFOs Tampered With Nuclear Missiles (???)
DNA sequencing and the Chocolate Factory
Right wing propaganda machine adopts anti-vaccination stance
Other:
Forbes blogs for sale
Thomas Friedman Sums Up the Iraq War: "Suck. On. This." (video; worth reminding ourselves how morally degenerate Thomas Friedman is)
New Rule For the Internets, Six-Figure Income Division (and…
mikethemadbiologist | September 27, 2010A cruddy, rainy Monday. Let's brighten things up with some links:
The only chart you need to see why Obama and the Ds will slash Social Security if they can
Montana woman fends off bear attack with zucchini
Man without Mortgage Loses Home in Foreclosure
The Method To Their Madness
Testing, 1-2-3
Does Andrew O'Hehir hate black kids
As Luck Would Have It
Who You Gonna Believe?
NY-18: Lowey's challenger opposes interracial marriage and school integration; supports eugenics.
mikethemadbiologist | September 26, 2010I think we had our last weekend day of summer yesterday. Let's mourn with some links. Science:
Another new bad resistance factor. (Bonus: Another city stigmatized!)
Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting (TEH DARWINISMZ! AAIIIEEE!!!!)
What's not to love about baby seahorses?
Other:
Curse of the control freaks
We Should Have Gone Swedish . . . (file under, "It wasn't just predictable, but it was predicted")
Going Galt
Why We Don't Need to Pay Down the National Debt
THE DRIVE TO BREAK FROM FORCED NEUTRALITY....
Obama's Forgotten Base
mikethemadbiologist | September 25, 2010It's a sunny Saturday here. If you're stuck inside, here are some links. Science:
Cocaine detectors for parents are a terrible idea: Nearly being arrested for drug smuggling provided me with an excellent introduction to the problem of false positives
The Revolution Will Not be Blogged, Either
The truth about vaccines and toxins: less aluminum than breast milk
Who are you calling a boffin? What do the public think scientists are like? And what do stereotypes matter anyway?
Other:
Anyone Wanna Blame The People In Charge?
Epiphany
The Internet Can't Kill College Journalism
People Who Make Too…
mikethemadbiologist | September 24, 2010It's Friday. Celebrate with some links. Science:
Danger, Will Robinson? Safety in scientific field work
We are exposed to more viruses as we age. In other words, A VIRUS IS MAKIN MAH BABBY FAT! (I can't believe that neither the reviewers nor the authors thought to control for age)
How to Take a Government-Approved Poop
Other:
The smart Dutch take on teen sex: Despite parents' allowing romantic sleepovers, the Netherlands has one of the lowest youth pregnancy rates
It's Only Class Warfare When We Fight Back
'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'?
Left Ed:…
mikethemadbiologist | September 23, 2010Thursday already? Oh well, links. Science:
Amazing Sight in the South Pacific
Balancing scientific rigor versus patient good in clinical trials
Is page reading different from screen reading?
Scientists investigating oil spill unsettled by calls from federal commission
Other:
Million Masturbator March
A Terrifying Situation
Jackie at the crossroads
Barack Obama: The conservatives' liberal / The futility of neo-liberal identity politics (while on vacation, I had a similar realization: Obama, and his fellow progressive/neo-liberal travellers are just as dogmatic as Bush et alia, but their…
mikethemadbiologist | September 22, 2010Links are back! Science:
Q&A: Antibiotic resistance: where does it come from and what can we do about it?
Detecting natural selection: a pika's tale (nice post about molecular evolution)
Bleach: Not a cure for obesity
Other:
The Rich Need Our Help - $$$ Addiction
With high-calorie dishes, restaurant chains put obesity on the menu
How Perry Mason Ruined America
You're Rich. Get Over It.
People who make $250,000 or more a year can afford a tax hike.
mikethemadbiologist | September 10, 2010Links for you.
Greenwashing - Is there really a sustainable Orange Roughy fishery?
Transplanting Gut Microbes to Treat Disease: Scientists examine new ways to manipulate the microorganisms within us.
Surviving antibiotics...
Ocean of Pseudoscience: Sharks DO get cancer!
Insect brains 'are source of antibiotics' to fight MRSA
mikethemadbiologist | September 9, 2010Gut Yontif! Let's start the New Year, linky style. Science:
Do School Lunches Plump Up Poor Kids?
And the short answer is, no, we could not still put a man on the moon
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test: A critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Peer review is no picnic
Other:
Great comment on neoliberalism
Rollover Minutes: How Adam Penenberg Has Legitimised New, New, New Journalism. Again.
Bank capital ratios and standing on tippy-toes
Holding Wal-Mart Accountable: The road to unionized Wal-Mart runs through obscure towns where…
mikethemadbiologist | September 8, 2010How was your Recovery Summer? At least we don't have a shortage of links! Science:
Fat and Health. (the best explanation of BMI I've read yet. My Inner Statistician is very happy: the second paragraph is brilliant)
STUPIDITY 1, THE REST OF US 0
Does it matter to your P.I. what you did this weekend?
About My Job: The Scientist
Other:
SYLVESTER MATUSCHKA
SELF-PRESERVATION FAIL
Making Social Security less generous isn't the answer
A Pirate's Dare
mikethemadbiologist | September 7, 2010Back to work, unless, like me you're on vacation. Still, I have links for you. Science:
Ants work with acacia trees to prevent elephant damage
Fluoride in Water Prevents Adult Tooth Loss, Study Suggests (but does it make you more susceptible to alien mind rays?)
Bella and Tara
A complete summary (probably TMI) about my time at the human #microbiome meeting #HMP2010
Other:
Labor Day Irony: The People Who Want to Cut Social Security All Have Great Retirement Plans
So... "School Professionals" Are Responsible for "Inputs?"
Barack Obama is Not The Commander-in-Chief Of The United States (And…
mikethemadbiologist | September 5, 2010A beautiful day here. Why are you reading links? But if you are, I got some. Science:
Light Rail and Obesity in one NC City
But Science Doesn't Work That Way : Miller and Chomsky (1963)
Viking Experiment May Have Found Life's Building Blocks on Mars After All
Other:
THE AGE OF MAMMON
Outside View: PowerPoints 'R' Us
The Revenge of Main Street
Shroomz!
The crime war of Juarez
Payroll Tax Holiday a Poor Stimulus Idea: "Making Work Pay" Credit a Better-Targeted Alternative
mikethemadbiologist | September 4, 2010Links for you. Science:
My E. coli brother's keeper
A Message To The Sciency Elite: Step Out Of The Lab And Into The Real World
Wild chimps outwit human hunters
Other:
Why Paul Krugman Is Perhaps The Biggest Economic Optimist There Is
My Iraq War Retrospective
Brother, Can You Paradigm?
How Companies Turn People Against Unions
Slow Boil
mikethemadbiologist | September 1, 2010Links for you:
Problems with the use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers
Left Ed: Arne Duncan Flunks Race to the Top
Fed admits: Money is a spreadsheet
T-bagging at the Glenn Beck rally in DC
What Can Obama Really Do?
mikethemadbiologist | August 31, 2010Links for you. Science:
Estimate Lowered of Typical Flu Toll
Don't Just Sit There! How bathroom posture affects your health.
Other:
Failure To Rise
SMART POLICY, SMART POLITICS....
The Confederate Party has always been about 'Honor'
MOVEMENTS ARE ABOUT SOMETHING REAL....
75 years of unqualified success
mikethemadbiologist | August 30, 2010I'm hopefully in Atlanta by now, en route to St. Louis for Microbiome-y goodness. Links for you:
God, I Need a Cup of Placebo Coffee
Tiny, New, Pea-Sized Frog is Old World's Smallest
On the Luxury of 'Coming Out' When You Feel Like It
Building a Nation of Know-Nothings
A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint
Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's All About Age (say what one will about unions, unionized workers don't get treated like this)
FREDDIE MISHKIN DOES ICELAND: YOU'VE GOT TO TRUST THOSE CENTRAL BANKS
LA's Value-Added Kerfuffle
Struggling Cities Shut Firehouses in Budget Crisis
mikethemadbiologist | August 29, 2010Hotter than hell today. Stay inside and enjoy some refreshing links. Science:
White Flight in Social Networks? A Story of Another Digital Divide
Cavemen Accused of Wiping Out Cave Bears ('cavemen' implies they weren't human. Bad title)
Tricky margay wildcat mimics its prey
Other:
Identifying Cyclical vs. Structural Unemployment: A Guide for Slate Writers (hypothesis testing! In economics? Pinch me)
Russia in color, a century ago
Slow Violence and the BP Coverups
The Return of The Piddler
Divided we stand...stock still
mikethemadbiologist | August 28, 2010Sunny. Warm. Links. Science:
Brief data analysis interlude
Wave of Rhabdomyolysis in Oregon High School Football Players
Darwin wrong--again??
Dude, where are my copy number variants?
Other:
PAC-Man Ate My Ballot
An Infrastructure Perfect Storm: New York Trains Shut Down En Masse
Managing The LA Times Teacher List Fallout
LA Times Value-Added Release - Problems and Solutions
mikethemadbiologist | August 27, 2010I'm excited about Glenn Beck's "I Have a Nightmare" Rally in DC this weekend (I'm sure my relatives in the area are not). Anyway, links. Science:
What the Egg Recall Says About Our Food Safety System (a surveillance success and regulatory failure)
Tara Parker-Pope and the New York Times Well Blog: Acupuncture woo takes over
Cheap PCR: new low cost machines challenge traditional designs
Greening the Big Apple
Other:
PBR aka "Symbolic Solidarity"
House Price Expectations
The Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century
The Strange World of Wall Street Journal Commenters (good…