Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | July 20, 2011Links for you. Science:
The narrow mind of Greenpeace
Tom Coburn wrong on behavioral research
After 8 Decades, Tiny Toad Resurfaces in Asia
Food Companies Act to Protect Consumers From E. Coli Illness
Other:
On Early Retirement (must read)
Other People's Money
A Response to Corey Robin on The Political Idea of Monetary Policy (this is why I write about that new fangled technology known as money)
With ALEC Exposed, Common Cause Demands an IRS Audit of Corporate-Funded Group's Gaming of State Lawmaking
Law and law school economics
Google+ Circles? More Like a Hole
Questioning the Inca Paradox…
mikethemadbiologist | July 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
What Not to Say to a Pop-Science Author
The New York Times' Defense of Antidepressants
How to Sell Your Fellow Students for $100
Dr. Isis Issues Some Ad Hominems For Those Who Hang Their Hats on Rats (or Mice)
Other:
Greed, Excess and America's Gaping Class Divide
The Plague Doctor Will See You Now
Step 1: Get Your Rich Friends to Give You Money.
WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE FINLAND
WIC on the Chopping Block
Wal-Mart the Latest Victim of Global Labor Arbitrage
Obama's Speak/Doublespeak on Entitlements
Bizarroworld economics
"Pro tip: your opinion is probably awful if a bunch of…
mikethemadbiologist | July 18, 2011Links for you. Science:
How Well Do Miss USA Contestants Represent Their States?
Hacking the genome with a MAGE and a CAGE
The Bugs That Changed Human History
Trouble in the Fourth Domain?
Other:
A Feminist Economist Speaks Out: Deficits are a Grrrl's Best Friend
What Makes You Think Obama is Conceding Anything? (yes, Obama is a Rockefeller Republican)
Twitter drives 4 times as much traffic as you think it does (explains a lot of what I see when I look at my referrals)
A History of College Grade Inflation
The Moral Imperative for the Continuation of Low Tax Rates for the Top Income Fractiles…
mikethemadbiologist | July 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
File Under WTF: Did the CIA Fake a Vaccination Campaign? (the blowback from this is reprehensible even by CIA standards)
No Eureka Moments in Long U.S. Campaign to Crack Cellulosic Code
Petty controversy: Tea Partiers vs. endangered manatees
How To Drink Gatorade
Why the Biggest Energy Suck in Your House May Have to do With Your TV
Other:
Harvard and Class
Michelle Bachmann wants to fire my wife.
A Letter to Professor Dawkins from Victims of Sexual Assault
Building on history: Restaurant is set to be the latest tenant in the Old Corner Bookstore building, a site that…
mikethemadbiologist | July 16, 2011Links for you. Science:
Super Awesome influenza antibodies: Slightly more helpful than Super Awesome HIV antibodies
Bacteria resists the aroma of caffeine
A Partial Cure for the "Is Consistent With" Syndrome (a good reason to understand mechanism)
CIA's despicable Pakistan vaccination ploy (can't wait to see what the awful anti-vaxxers do with this...)
Other:
The Moneysburg Address
Deals Will Be Broken
Education Reform - the Fix is In
The NEA And Our Absurd Education 'Debate'
Choreographed Budget Cave In
Understanding Obama (he's a Rockefeller Republican. Once you recognize that, it all…
mikethemadbiologist | July 15, 2011Links for you. Science:
The Asian needle ant, an accidentally imported termite killer
A Journal Is Not a Data Dump
How Seawater Can Power the World
Tiny snails survive digestion by birds (I wonder what this does to your microbiome...)
Other:
Ann Coulter Confuses Liberal and Conservative Psychology
Not-So-Representative Investors
The selfish revolution
11 Things the Richest U.S. Households Can Buy That You Can't
More Proof That Obama is Herbert Hoover (when a former Goldman-Sachs employee argues using Marxist language that Obama is too conservative, he has gone way too far to the…
mikethemadbiologist | July 14, 2011Beautiful weather here. If you're stuck inside, here are some links. Science:
Casey's Case: What Psychology Says About Anthony's Acquittal.
Sunday AI: Leaping Cockroaches
The Clap Came Back: Multi-Drug Resistant Gonorrhea
The Path Of Increased Resistance
Other:
Rep. Ryan Tastes The Grapes Of Wrath
The Pathology of Elite Organizations
Whitey's generation: What was life really like for the tough boys of '30s and '40s Boston? From boxes in a basement, a startlingly clear portrait of their lives.
JP Morgan Chase Fine: Another Slap on the Wrist for Wall Street
10 Days in a Carry-On
State and…
mikethemadbiologist | July 13, 2011Links for you. Science:
Great Moments in Deceptive Graphs
Life and death of GFAJ-1
A second case of meat farming
The Unexamined Society (broken clocks and all that...)
Other:
Ah Well. Never Bet Against Applebee's Salad Bars
Suddenly tone matters (personally, I'm willing to admit that the approach is context-dependent)
Frankly, atheists, skeptics, you're embarrassing as fuck
Job Satisfaction, Education, and the Hedonic Treadmill
Extremes of Craziness: Bernard-Henri Lévy explains why you're wrong about Dominique Strauss-Kahn (the title is snarky)
Don't try taking pictures at Frog Pond (…
mikethemadbiologist | July 12, 2011It's a skorcha! Cool down with some links. Science:
On Algae Fuel
Ancient China: The 15th Century Fleet
The biology of Mauritius: part 2
The practice does not invalidate the principle
Other:
Fundie Americana
The three fundamentalisms of the American right
Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger's Rapist: or a guy's guide to approaching strange women without being maced
The Whiny Demographic
Test-Based Accountability and International Comparisons: Lessons Ignored
AskObama Is a Meaningless Marketing Stunt
Are Republican Voters to Blame for GOP Intransigence on the Budget?
Why the Republicans…
mikethemadbiologist | July 11, 2011Links for you. Science:
The end of E. coli
E. coli: A Risk for 3 More Years From Who Knows Where
Bayesian vs Frequentist. A pragmatic bioinformatician's view
Can evolutionary psychology walk the walk over walking?
Other:
Bible's Different Authors Revealed By New Language Software
Cash Is Not the Problem
My day as a shark biologist!
Working Papers are NOT Working.
Income inequalities and social ills
Reckless Endangerment of the Truth
Education expert: Pay teachers more, expect more from them
George Will Spreads Some Lies About the Economic Crisis
Segregation in the land of limousine liberalism
mikethemadbiologist | July 9, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ye Olde Kitchen Garden
DNA is now DIY: OpenPCR ships worldwide
John Smith's genome sequenced
Turnabout is fair play and Can religious teachings prove evolution to be true?
Other:
Why Do We Fetishize Budget Deficits and Not Trade Deficits?
Systematic Cheating Is Found in Atlanta's School System
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space
Notes for Reporters Covering Rape Cases
Unsolicited Advice for Bristol Palin: Call It Rape
"College for All" Dissected (part 1)
Should All Kids Go to College?
mikethemadbiologist | July 8, 2011Links for you. Science:
We've heard that obesity and divorce can be passed from one person to another. Critics now wonder how the "social contagion" studies ever passed peer review.
The New Mathematical Formula To Determine Penis Size
Stop Experimenting With Science
Ten Simple Rules for Building and Maintaining a Scientific Reputation
Other:
Mothman: An Exposé
7 'Ancient' Forms of Mysticism That Are Recent Inventions
Setting the Record Straight: Correcting Myths About Independent Voters
The Sorrow and the Pity of Economists (Like DeLong) Not Learning from Their Mistakes
What We Don't Talk…
mikethemadbiologist | July 7, 2011Links for you. Science:
Five myths about NASA
Why couples look more alike as time passes
Jokes About the Democratic Party
Scientists Discover That Antimicrobial Wipes and Soaps May Be Making You (and Society) Sick
Other:
The Chinese Century?
14 Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans
Wanted: Leadership and the Willingness to Fight for Core Democratic Beliefs
The Horrible Plight Of The Not Quite Rich Enough
What's behind GOP attack on product-safety database?
BMW layoffs exemplify the evisceration of the middle class: Every working American should be dismayed by -- and…
mikethemadbiologist | July 6, 2011Links for you. Science:
Fisheries: How Much Damage Can One Hook Do?
Spiders Fleeing Pakistan's Floodwater Take to the Trees
Assassin Bugs, the Insect World's Most Cunning Killers
Trusting your instincts: Conservatives may actually be natural liberals at heart (the key part has to do with the role of fear)
Other:
Buy Lohan, Sell High: Why is Lindsay Lohan tweeting about the Federal Reserve's monetary policy?
Ron Paul's Surprisingly Lucid Solution to the Debt Ceiling Impasse
The Corrupt Corporate Incarceration Complex
New York's AG Takes on the Banks
Boston.com: Now free of pop-unders (it was…
mikethemadbiologist | July 5, 2011Links for you. Science:
Why is Anthropogenic Global Warming Denialism Important?
Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward
100 Years of IBM in Pictures
The Intelligence of Beasts: Cognition researchers move past 'chimpocentric' theories, raising new questions about human uniqueness
Other:
Earth to Democrats: It's Not Just the Tea-GOP Trying to Tank the Economy. Obama Believes Their Argument.
How the meat industry turned abuse into a business model
The Jews Aren't Going Anywhere
Ironic License, Please
They Want My Scalp. But They're Not Going to Get It.
Drug Company…
mikethemadbiologist | July 4, 2011Fireworks in a few hours. Links for you right now. Science:
When The Words "Just" And "Before" Foreshadow Bad Things For Medical Research
F#%& you and your red tape
Risky business
The Global Warming Crisis
Other:
Lindsay Lohan, financial pundit
Andrew Cuomo's Flawed Liberalism: Yes, he deserves credit for pushing gay marriage through. But New York's governor is still paying far too much attention to the millionaires, and not enough to the masses.
Why does Dean Baker keep misleading FDL's readers about medical school expansion - and when will he stop?
The Difference Between Testing and…
mikethemadbiologist | July 3, 2011Links for you. Science:
Four mysterious retractions in the JBC for a group whose PI recently passed away
Finches use their own form of grammar in their tweets (so do humans. Snare drum, please)
UC fears talent loss to deeper pockets: The departure of three star scientists from UC San Diego has officials worried about a possible brain drain tied to budget cuts.
Kansas outlaws practice of evolution
Other:
Why Is Jerry Falwell's Evangelical University Getting Filthy Rich off Your Tax Money?
We Don't Need to Cut Corporate Taxes, We Need to Raise Them (this is on Fox News. Really)
First, Blame…
mikethemadbiologist | June 30, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ion v. MiSeq - Is There a Competition, And If So, Why?
Is Drug Resistance in Humans Coming From Chickens?
Amazing looking fly (biodiversity is cool)
Is Rape Natural?
Did the PhD Kill the Masters Degree?
Other:
10 Of The Craziest Things Michele Bachmann Has Ever Said
At the front lines
Why Are Conservatives Scared of Cameron Diaz? "White Hispanics" are white people who trace their origins to Spain, and they're the reason reports of America's coming "white minority" status are 100-percent wrong.
Prank Dog (it's a bad title; the dog is actually quite serious...about…
mikethemadbiologist | June 29, 2011Links for you. Science:
Believe it: man flu is real
Ignorance, Fake Turing Tests, and Bads
MiSeq Aims for Ion Torrent
Irradiating organic food would save lives
Other:
Deforming the Graduate Degree
Current Test-Based Incentive Programs Have Not Consistently Raised Student Achievement in U.S.; Improved Approaches Should Be Developed and Evaluated
State and local governments should be listed as a primary risk to the US outlook
Not So Dumb as Economists, Part 1
Why Would Wal-Mart Hire Any Men?
Keynesian Deficit Doves vs. MMT Deficit Owls
Facebook post sums up American justice in one picture…
mikethemadbiologist | June 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
Breakthrough: New Flow-Battery Design Provides 10-Fold Improvement
Defending Stephen Jay Gould's Crusade against Biological Determinism (the criticisms of Gould's 'misanalysis' aren't are straightforward as claimed)
What does it feel like to get bitten by a ground hornbill, I hear you ask?
Gobi Desert Romans Are Unfounded Speculation
Other:
"Metro sprawl" misses better opportunities in the core
Michele Bachmann's Holy War
Michele Bachmann's Excellent Adventure
The 3 Wings of the Republican Party: The Crazies, the Corporatists ... and Democrats
Diane Ravitch, the Anti-…