Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | August 3, 2010Some links for you. Science:
Why You Should Stop Drinking Bottled Water
How Physiology was Cooler 40 Years Ago
Grantham: Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes
Other:
WikiLeaks in Baghdad
Why every AG in the country should be suing the credit-rating agencies
"You Don't Look Sick" - The Face of Invisible Illness ... Arthritis Sure Ain't Pretty!
Towards a Libertarian/Austrian Modern Money Theory
Free Market Showdown: David Frum Poses the Question; Here's the Answer
mikethemadbiologist | August 2, 2010I'm taking a break from hate-mongering to give you some good links. Science:
Drug-resistant strain of E. coli emerges in U.S.: New strain may be on way to becoming 'untreatable,' researchers say
Update: The French case --not MRSA but so interesting
Effects of sleep loss linger longer than you think
Yellow lobster pulled from Narragansett Bay
Other:
Corporate Profits Are Up Because of the Unemployment Crisis
Civil rights groups top mounting wave of criticism for Obama's education "reforms"
The filibuster is giving enviros unwarranted self-esteem issues
Four More Years Of War -- Just For…
mikethemadbiologist | August 1, 2010Happy Sunday. Links for you. Science:
Traffic reduction: An urgent public health priority
Working With Jerks
Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us
Flying giants: Incredibly rare display as manta rays leap 9ft out of water into the air
Other:
The Senators Who Gave Us 15 Million Unemployed Want to Deny Them Benefits
The nation's 120,000 dams: Much more inspection, repair needed
Why Land Is Part of Capital in Neo-Classical Economics
Our Jew-Run Media, But Not In An Anti-Semitic Way
Gut-level Legislation, or, Redistribution
To bigotry no sanction
Black Power's Gonna Get You…
mikethemadbiologist | July 31, 2010It's nice outside, but if you're stuck inside, here are some links for you. Science:
'Friendly bacteria' in pregnancy may prevent eczema in childhood
Drug discovery in academia and NIH, a new type of U01
Fleming Painted With Bacteria
Other:
A crime story
College Students Hide Hunger, Homelessness
HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN MEGAN McARDLE PIECE
Megan McArdle's Hack Post on Elizabeth Warren's Scholarship
Clive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call
Scamming the Rubes
Obama's tragic infatuation with meritocracy without merit
mikethemadbiologist | July 29, 2010Some Thursday links for you. Science:
The familiar Matamata, known to us all since the 1700s, and its long, fat neck (matamatas part II)
Sunday Protist - Farming forams: a case of protistan agriculture
The Pepsi Challenge: A controversy at ScienceBlogs raises questions about whether "institutional" blogs have editorial integrity
Other:
Defining Lynching Down.
Liberalism and Big Business
HAMP Is Hurting Liberalism
THE NAIVE BELIEF THAT IT'S NO LONGER GROUNDHOG DAY
Court says property owners better do an extra good job of clearing snow and ice this winter
The Apple Genius Bar could learn some…
mikethemadbiologist | July 28, 2010Some Wednesday links for you. Science:
It's more than genes, it's networks and systems
Unsafe at Any Meal
It's My Genome and I'll Do What I Wanna
Other:
License plate of the week
The 5 Signs You're Talking To A Social Media Douchebag.
The Art of the Deal as Entertainment
Gall
'WE WILL REGRET IT'....
Enough right-wing propaganda
mikethemadbiologist | July 27, 2010It's hot. Damn hot. Hopefully not too hot for some links. Science:
Evil weed in Baltic Sea puts marine life at risk
Lost in Translation: New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish
On Nature Network
Other:
Why Friends Don't Let Friends Cite The Atlantic's "Business and Economics Editor": Further to the Megan McArdle is Always Wrong chronicles.
President George Washington on religious tolerance
Too Bad Not to Fail. Just what are derivatives, and how much more damage can they do? (nothing…
mikethemadbiologist | July 26, 2010Just another manic Monday. How's about some links? Science:
Can chance make you a killer?
Hearing loss from iPods and other MP3 players
Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well
Heroin in Vietnam: The Robins Study
Other:
Whites and Privilege
Think Again: Economist, Heal Thyself (about Nouriel Roubiny)
No To Oligarchy
Fake femme fatale shows social network risks: Researcher Thomas Ryan says fictitious Robin Sage character fooled many holding security, military and intelligence posts
The editors endorse this message (Drink Coffee)
mikethemadbiologist | July 25, 2010Kinda sticky and gross outside. Stay cool with some refreshing links. Science:
One principal component to rule them all?
Hospitals want patients to eat antibiotic-free meat
Joe Mercola's shampoo woo
Real Math Doesn't Use Calculators
Other:
An email (about teenage pregnancy and forced childbirth)
Lessons learned from Breitbart and Sherrod
response to deficit dove letter
Who's Next?
The Negrological Constant
mikethemadbiologist | July 24, 2010Happy Saturday. Links for you. Science:
Eleven Amazing Things About The Haleakala Silversword
Detoxifying cassava
Japanese giant salamanders are in a fishbowl of sorts, for research
Global Model Confirms: Cool Roofs Can Offset Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Mitigate Global Warming
Other:
State Plans to Eliminate 170,000 Canada Geese
The civil rights heroism of Charles Sherrod
When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist
Parking takes up space
mikethemadbiologist | July 22, 2010Links for you. Science:
Under The Microscope: Feminism, Scientists and Sexiness
The 2 billion dollar protein sequencing error
How to read a genome-wide association study
Other:
Feds getting ready to mislabel another key Revolutionary battle
Whither ScienceBlogs?
A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem
mikethemadbiologist | July 21, 2010Happy Wednesday! Links for you. Science:
The Tiny Ant That's Taking On The Big City
Where stingrays reign
French Scientists Crack Secrets Of 'Mona Lisa'
Privately funded science
Other:
Ugly truth about Maryland's crab industry; no wonder the locals don't want the jobs
Kool-Aid, Mainline Protestant Edition
Wall Street Notices Main Street; Stocks Fall
The Sign of Things That Have Already Come
What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate, About Communications
The Diaspora Need Not Apply
mikethemadbiologist | July 20, 2010Somethings going with the Notorious H.M.P. No reason for forgetting to give you some links. Science:
Unscientific California: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Serpentine and Biodiversity
Getting someone fired: the most fun wingnuts can have while avoiding prison
The Big Green Buy
Other:
Conservative slams the right on New Black Panther lies
Firms cancel health coverage. With cost rising, small companies turning to state
RelayRides challenges Zipcar, marketing with teams on foot
mikethemadbiologist | July 19, 2010Merry Monday! Links for you. Science:
Personal genomics: the importance of sequencing
Gulf's Artificial Islands Already Failing
Scientists vs. Engineers: One prefers the unknown, the other can't stand it. Now more than ever, we have to find a way to get along.
Other:
Conservative Groups Demand High Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rates
The Coming Birth Control Battle
Should Businesses Be Run Like the Post Office?
Sarah: Why we love her!
mikethemadbiologist | July 18, 2010Still hot. Cool down with some nice links. Science:
Race to find damaging beetles turns to radar
How Neanderthal Are You?
Honey's anti-bacterial properties found?
There Is A Reality
Other:
Drive with care over those 151,394 obsolete, unsafe bridges
Ain't No Money in Being Productive
Yes Our Press Corps Is a Joke. Why Do You Ask?
The Miracle of Dick Cheney
Hybrids in Haiti
Tea Party Poop
mikethemadbiologist | July 17, 2010Say Yoda, "Friday, thank goodness, it is." Links for you. Science:
The Vaccine That Came In From the Cold
Plants 'can think and remember'
Risks and benefits of population screening
Other:
Lincoln and Kyl Trying to Make Budget-Busting Tax Cut Appear Cheaper
Conservatives Don't Care About the Deficit
The stickiest price
58% of Real Income Growth Since 1976 Went to Top 1% (and Why That Matters)
mikethemadbiologist | July 14, 2010It's a wild and wacky Wednesday, in no small part because I got my parking ticket expunged (the BPD was actually very efficient about this). Yes, regular readers will wonder how I, He Who Does Not Own a Car, got a parking ticket in the first place. Somethings are best left unsaid....Science links:
The Creativity Crisis. For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong--and how we can fix it.
Solar-Powered Plane Flies for 26 Hours
Go it alone? or form a collective?
Belly-buttons key to success in sport: study
Comments on the "Synthetic Cell"
Other:…
mikethemadbiologist | July 13, 2010Some Tuesday links for you. Science:
Amazon River Dolphins Being Slaughtered for Bait
GPS from the 1920s
Children and genomics - the underworld of DNA talent testing
Other:
How to Lose $1,100,000 in Irvine Real Estate
Poll: Majority Of Americans Not Quite Sure What 'Progressive' Means
Too Old For A Job, Too Young For Medicare Or Social Security
Left Ed: Race, Income and School Reform
No Coke, No Pepsi Either?
mikethemadbiologist | July 12, 2010Just another Manic Monday...with links! Science:
Linezolid resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LRSA) emerging
Facebook Is Not A Brain, And Other Failed Metaphors
Wild Cat Found Mimicking Monkey Calls; Predatory Trickery Documented for the First Time in Wild Felids in Americas
Other:
Impeach (Insert Demon's Name Here)!
Tremble, Banks, Tremble. The key to financial recovery: restoring the rule of law on Wall Street.
The Poor Stay in the Houses, the Rich Walk Away
Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now
Disaster Capitalism's Catastrophic Success In Ireland ... And…
mikethemadbiologist | July 11, 2010Here are some links for you. Science:
Using the General Social Survey
FCC broadband plan will put US in "second tier of countries"
Other:
Show Him the Money. Tom Donohue scares millions of dollars out of corporations and Republicans. But is his U.S. Chamber of Commerce good for business?
David Brooks hasn't been reading his own newspaper...
Democrats Face 200 million Republican War Chest Without the Strong Allies They Should Have
Appointing Bernanke not a mistake?
The Obama shock doctrine. Conservative economics reaches peak absurdity: The recession is the president's fault
So What If They…