Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | March 11, 2010Working on a grant, only to have the lead PI pull it, is always fun. Anyway, more time for links:
MIT's levered wheelchair extends freedom to Third WorldWho's Accountable When Kids Don't LearnIf you thought they'd stop at harassing women having abortions, you were naiveCell phones, Facebook, and the war on lonelinessTen Most Annoying Gym PersonalitiesAcross city, people rally to save their branch librariesObama and Social Security: NewDealDemocrat Tees OffAre Republicans Driving Me Mad?The Libraries of Boston
mikethemadbiologist | March 9, 2010Merry Tuesday. Links for you. Science:
95 per cent chance that Man is to blame for global warming, say scientists6 reasons why the iPad could be the 'Star Wars' of tablet computingNatural Advantage
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What Adam Smith Actually Identified as the Appropriate Roles for 18-century GovernmentsThe Wrong Kind of GreenOn the need for grownupsRight wing populism: simple, stupidFannie and Freddie Start Returning Fraudulent Mortgages to Banks, But Crime Goes UnpunishedHow Sports Attacks Public Education
mikethemadbiologist | March 4, 2010Thursday means links. Or something. Science:
The Upside of Type I DiabetesAn 60,000-year old artistic movement recorded in ostrich egg shells Animal Experimentation and Simulation
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THE MARK OF QUALITYTop Treasury Official Leaves For Lobbying FirmThe Enthusiasm GapEffective Government MattersWhat MattersThe Home Depot Misery IndexHow covering up for abuse is sadly commonWould Your Boyfriend Be "Pleased" By Your Surprise Fetus?The last mile in Tysons Corner, part 1: The problem
mikethemadbiologist | March 3, 2010Happy Wednesday. Links fahr ya. Science:
Thoughts on how to pick a graduate schoolAnswering "scientific" arguments of animal rights extremistsNew players in sequencing debut at AGBTDo Scientists Want to Bridge Science and Society?The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation
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New York Times Article on Myth of "Racial Bias and Abortion" Omits Critical AnalysesThe war on health care accessAnnouncing The New Tea Party Mascot: Slow Moe, The Tired Randian SquirrelAsk DrugMonkey: Will you comment for attribution?Why Rahm's historical revisionism is…
mikethemadbiologist | March 1, 2010Merry Monday. Lots of links for you. Science:
Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will Fail.Pound for pound, bats can drink you under the tableThe truth mattersRising Threat of Infections Unfazed by AntibioticsThe Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It's the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century
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Health Summit: The Fear Deficit. Maybe America's ruling class isn't frightened enough to create health reform.How effective is fact bombing?Bartels = Alfred Wegener?What President Obama should have realized about Rahm EmanuelRunaway health costs are rocking municipal budgetsSurprise!…
mikethemadbiologist | February 27, 2010It's a slushy Saturday. That means lots of time to read links. Science:
Don't Become a Scientist!They really do hate us: "small dog" haplotype from the Middle EastA Look into Obesity and Gut MicrobiotaSplash Down: Pacific Biosciences Unveils Third-Generation Sequencing MachineAnthrax Case Closing ChallengedPacific Biosciences introduces new third-generation sequencing instrument at AGBTThe Scientific Communication Messiah has arrived!
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Mass Transit is As American as Apple PieThe copyright mafia makes me scream (again)A banker's perspective of the Greece derivatives debt dodgeOn…
mikethemadbiologist | February 25, 2010We're in full Schlump season here. Links for you. Science:
Misunderstanding Darwin: Natural selection's secular critics get it wrongHistory in the Remaking: A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution.In which I dream of revolutionMath Shows Some Crime Hot Spots Can Be Cooled, Others Only RelocatedTime to get mad. Time to speak up.Animal rights thugs: Researchers' children are not off limitsDoes the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
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The Real Reason Women's Magazines SuckShadow…
mikethemadbiologist | February 22, 2010Merry Monday. Links for you:
Red pen, or track changes?Inside-out, or Outside-in, multi-level selection "vs." inclusive fitness debateThe Long GoodbayhMonsterMake Up Your Mind: He Can't Be All FourWithout a clutchWhat stands in the way of "forcing" a filibuster?Another Dumb Right-Wing Idea: Default on the DebtJews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimesAuerback/Wray: Memo to Greece: Make War, Not Love, With Goldman SachsHow slums can save the planetWho Broke America's Jobs Machine? Why creeping consolidation is crushing American livelihoods.
mikethemadbiologist | February 18, 2010It appears that the season known as Schlump has arrived. Time for links. Science:
Sex, science and statisticsEnergy-Efficient Lighting Made Without MercuryOur world may be a giant hologramBe a Beetle Rancher!Fixing journalism
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Stimulating Hypocrisy: 111 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its SuccessLet The Women JumpYou Are Not A Bad Person And You're Not Doing It WrongIf you don't like a catch-22, you shouldn't go around being femaleThe Media's Billion Dollar Ad for Evan Bayh What Will Make People Trust Goverment Again?David Brooks Goes for Nobel in Victim…
mikethemadbiologist | February 14, 2010It's a rather sunny Sunday here, which inspired some links. ScienceThe Winkler County Nurse Trial, An Alleged Massive Conflict of Interest, and MorgellonsIf you're going to do good science, release the computer code too: Programs do more and more scientific work - but you need to be able to check them as well as the original data, as the recent row over climate change documentation showsHow many Americans are immune to H1N1?A radical source of antibiotic resistance...
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To Fix AmericaThis Is What Obstructionism + Nihilism + the Wurlitzer Looks LikeThe Coming Showdown with the UnionsHow…
mikethemadbiologist | February 13, 2010Happy Saturday. Links for you. Science:
Robot Snowplow from Japan Eats Up Snow, Poops Out BricksImmunization for Addiction: the Cocaine VaccineWhy are demented women still getting mammograms?Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everythingIs the Evolution Debate Over?Parsing NIH's 2011 Budget: Is Big Science Up, Small Science Down?
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Ben Nelson Wants College Kids to Pay for Nebraska JobsWill the Real Pam Tebow Story Please Stand Up?Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View carThe Eternal Delusions of the Right-Wing MindRobert Samuelson Doesn't Know…
mikethemadbiologist | February 10, 2010Not too bad with the snow here. Links for you:
A nation full of people trying to have their cake and eat it tooAt what price "progress"? Macro- and Micro-publishing EconomiesIt Takes a Village to Raise a RacistShould Economists Be Sued for Malpractice?On Being an AssholeDebt Collector's Untold Role In Scott Brown VictoryActual Senate supermajority requirements: 72 Democrats, 54 RepublicansJournals of the Crisis YearGovernors' New Budgets Indicate Loss of Many Jobs if Federal Aid ExpiresA refreshing dose of honesty: Maria Cantwell and the politics of global warming
mikethemadbiologist | February 8, 2010Who dat dem gonna beat the Saints? Oops, wrong marketing strategy. Geaux Saints! Links for you. Science:
Postdoctoral researchers at UMass unionizeFirst Federal Court Hearing on Whether Human Genes Should Be Patented"Could You Patent the Sun?"*Global Ocean Protection Measures Have FailedDigital doomsday: the end of knowledge
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How a poll is conductedThe Monster's Sweet PerfumeThe Great Tim Tebow FallacyGovernment driver hits pedestrian, MPD gives victim a ticketSomething that really bugs me about the recent Star Trek movieDefending Sarah Palin's handWhy a flat tax is a bad idea Tea…
mikethemadbiologist | February 7, 2010I hear there's some kind of sporting event today. No excuse to not check out some links though. Science:
Random thoughts on CDC's swine flu effort: epidemiology and surveillanceIn Praise of DeferenceSeven habits of highly successful toadsMan Hunts Crocodile That Has Eaten Over 200 PeopleClimate change causes wolverine decline across CanadaHubble Sights Strange Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPHPeer review: What is it good for?Yes, ecology shapes evolution, but guppies show reverse also true
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The GOP id speaksFiscalizing FailureGreat exchange between President Obama and…
mikethemadbiologist | February 5, 2010I believe that someone once said, "Thank God It's Friday." Links for you. Science:
Oh my fucking god. (Really, it's about science)MTS43 - Rob Knight - The Microbes That Inhabit UsNew organism discovered in a dirty pondIs There Sh*t in Your Salad? 39% of Bagged Salads Have Too Much Fecal BacteriaMy latest scientific paper: Extended Laying Interval of Ultimate Eggs of the Eastern Bluebird
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Budgets, War and Blind Ambition: The Limited Minds of the American EliteWhy bipartisanship can't work: the expert viewMore from the "why bipartisanship can't work" guyCausation Analysis: What "But…
mikethemadbiologist | February 2, 2010Merry Tuesday. Links fahr ya. Science:
The Case for 'Gray Power'How many Americans received the H1N1 vaccine?The Intellectual Property Fight That Could Kill MillionsThe Duration of PostDoc TrainingDual Function Of Post-Doctoral Training
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Mr. Obama's Junk Economics: Democrats Relinquish the Populist Option to the RepublicansWorld hunger and the locavoresThe futurist weighs in: The things we leave behindLies of rightwing populism: Those evil liberal elitesAfter Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web SiteWhat A Coincidence!
mikethemadbiologist | January 31, 2010It's still freezing. A good reason for links. Science:
Why The iPad Is Crap FuturismBritish Newspapers Make Things UpLife Imitating LifeUnPolitical America: A Crisis of Political Illiteracy?
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A Colossal Failure Of Governance: The Reappointment of Ben BernankeLadies, meet your new gender diversity coordinator, Mr. Angry PenisSCREAM BLOODY MURDER....He is sad because his house looks like an elementary school. And all the children have died.Out of AuschwitzA campaign funding messWhere Was the Narrative?Pelosi Demands Any Budget Freeze Also Apply To Military SpendingSally Quinn's…
mikethemadbiologist | January 29, 2010It's Freezing Friday. Links to keep ya warm. Science:
The Evolution of an Internet MemeScience Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any FurtherIt was the best of sources, and the worst of sources: the Internet and health informationIn Defense of the Beta BlockerIncreasing NIH funding means jobs and reputation for New EnglandRadical Inequality Is Literally Killing UsHow Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs: Reigniting basic research can repair the broken U.S. business model and put Americans back to work
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Shocking discovery: Kids who fear sex are open to anti-sex messagesThis is…
mikethemadbiologist | January 28, 2010It's Thursday. And that means links. Or something. Science:
China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020Research Project Grant Support For "Younger Researchers"On the latest NIH soft-money kerfuffleCollins warns Universities to roll back soft money jobs...sortofShrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare
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Reframing Public IgnoranceCivil unions and straight marriageLUCY, CHARLIE BROWN, AND THE BIPARTISAN FOOTBALL....How Wall Street Destroyed Health CareDemocracy in America Is a Useful FictionNot A Single Intelligent Human Being…
mikethemadbiologist | January 27, 2010Merry Wednesday. Links for you. Science:
The 2,700 year old Pashtun link to Israel (should end with a question mark)Network Theory: A Key to Unraveling How Nature WorksRice, alcohol and genesExperts stunned by swan 'divorce' at Slimbridge wetlandIs Algae Worse than Corn for Biofuels? A new analysis suggests so because of the need for copious fertilizerThe Science of Success
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The Case Against BenankeThe bad faith issue in the "stupid/evil" debateMaybe Ben Bernanke is a Conservative RepublicanThis Is Not What I Elected You do Do, Barack Obama. Do Better!How to Spot a Deficit Peacock:…