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 World
Who's Accountable When Kids Don't Learn
If you thought they'd stop at harassing women having abortions, you were naive
Cell phones, Facebook, and the war on loneliness
Ten Most Annoying Gym Personalities
Across city, people rally to save their branch libraries
Obama and Social Security: NewDealDemocrat Tees Off
Are 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 scientists
6 reasons why the iPad could be the 'Star Wars' of tablet computing
Natural Advantage
Other:
What Adam Smith Actually Identified as the Appropriate Roles for 18-century Governments
The Wrong Kind of Green
On the need for grownups
Right wing populism: simple, stupid
Fannie and Freddie Start Returning Fraudulent Mortgages to Banks, But Crime Goes Unpunished
How Sports Attacks Public Education
mikethemadbiologist | March 4, 2010Thursday means links. Or something. Science:
The Upside of Type I Diabetes
An 60,000-year old artistic movement recorded in ostrich egg shells
Animal Experimentation and Simulation
Other:
THE MARK OF QUALITY
Top Treasury Official Leaves For Lobbying Firm
The Enthusiasm Gap
Effective Government Matters
What Matters
The Home Depot Misery Index
How covering up for abuse is sadly common
Would 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 school
Answering "scientific" arguments of animal rights extremists
New players in sequencing debut at AGBT
Do Scientists Want to Bridge Science and Society?
The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation
Other:
New York Times Article on Myth of "Racial Bias and Abortion" Omits Critical Analyses
The war on health care access
Announcing The New Tea Party Mascot: Slow Moe, The Tired Randian Squirrel
Ask DrugMonkey: Will you comment for attribution?
Why Rahm's historical…
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 table
The truth matters
Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
The Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It's the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century
Other:
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 Emanuel
Runaway health costs are rocking municipal budgets…
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 East
A Look into Obesity and Gut Microbiota
Splash Down: Pacific Biosciences Unveils Third-Generation Sequencing Machine
Anthrax Case Closing Challenged
Pacific Biosciences introduces new third-generation sequencing instrument at AGBT
The Scientific Communication Messiah has arrived!
Other:
Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
The copyright mafia makes me scream (again)
A banker's perspective of the Greece derivatives debt dodge…
mikethemadbiologist | February 25, 2010We're in full Schlump season here. Links for you. Science:
Misunderstanding Darwin: Natural selection's secular critics get it wrong
History 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 revolution
Math Shows Some Crime Hot Spots Can Be Cooled, Others Only Relocated
Time to get mad. Time to speak up.
Animal rights thugs: Researchers' children are not off limits
Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?
Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych
Other:
The Real Reason Women's Magazines Suck…
mikethemadbiologist | February 22, 2010Merry Monday. Links for you:
Red pen, or track changes?
Inside-out, or Outside-in, multi-level selection "vs." inclusive fitness debate
The Long Goodbayh
Monster
Make Up Your Mind: He Can't Be All Four
Without a clutch
What stands in the way of "forcing" a filibuster?
Another Dumb Right-Wing Idea: Default on the Debt
Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes
Auerback/Wray: Memo to Greece: Make War, Not Love, With Goldman Sachs
How slums can save the planet
Who 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 statistics
Energy-Efficient Lighting Made Without Mercury
Our world may be a giant hologram
Be a Beetle Rancher!
Fixing journalism
Other:
Stimulating Hypocrisy: 111 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its Success
Let The Women Jump
You Are Not A Bad Person And You're Not Doing It Wrong
If you don't like a catch-22, you shouldn't go around being female
The 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. Science
The Winkler County Nurse Trial, An Alleged Massive Conflict of Interest, and Morgellons
If 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 shows
How many Americans are immune to H1N1?
A radical source of antibiotic resistance...
Other:
To Fix America
This Is What Obstructionism + Nihilism + the Wurlitzer Looks Like
The Coming Showdown with the…
mikethemadbiologist | February 13, 2010Happy Saturday. Links for you. Science:
Robot Snowplow from Japan Eats Up Snow, Poops Out Bricks
Immunization for Addiction: the Cocaine Vaccine
Why are demented women still getting mammograms?
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
Is the Evolution Debate Over?
Parsing NIH's 2011 Budget: Is Big Science Up, Small Science Down?
Other:
Ben Nelson Wants College Kids to Pay for Nebraska Jobs
Will the Real Pam Tebow Story Please Stand Up?
Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car
The Eternal Delusions of the Right-Wing Mind
Robert Samuelson…
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 too
At what price "progress"? Macro- and Micro-publishing Economies
It Takes a Village to Raise a Racist
Should Economists Be Sued for Malpractice?
On Being an Asshole
Debt Collector's Untold Role In Scott Brown Victory
Actual Senate supermajority requirements: 72 Democrats, 54 Republicans
Journals of the Crisis Year
Governors' New Budgets Indicate Loss of Many Jobs if Federal Aid Expires
A 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 unionize
First Federal Court Hearing on Whether Human Genes Should Be Patented
"Could You Patent the Sun?"*
Global Ocean Protection Measures Have Failed
Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge
Other:
How a poll is conducted
The Monster's Sweet Perfume
The Great Tim Tebow Fallacy
Government driver hits pedestrian, MPD gives victim a ticket
Something that really bugs me about the recent Star Trek movie
Defending Sarah Palin's hand
Why a flat tax is a bad…
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 surveillance
In Praise of Deference
Seven habits of highly successful toads
Man Hunts Crocodile That Has Eaten Over 200 People
Climate change causes wolverine decline across Canada
Hubble Sights Strange Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH
Peer review: What is it good for?
Yes, ecology shapes evolution, but guppies show reverse also true
Other:
The GOP id speaks
Fiscalizing Failure
Great exchange between President…
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 Us
New organism discovered in a dirty pond
Is There Sh*t in Your Salad? 39% of Bagged Salads Have Too Much Fecal Bacteria
My latest scientific paper: Extended Laying Interval of Ultimate Eggs of the Eastern Bluebird
Other:
Budgets, War and Blind Ambition: The Limited Minds of the American Elite
Why bipartisanship can't work: the expert view
More from the "why bipartisanship can't work" guy
Causation Analysis: What "…
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 Millions
The Duration of PostDoc Training
Dual Function Of Post-Doctoral Training
Other:
Mr. Obama's Junk Economics: Democrats Relinquish the Populist Option to the Republicans
World hunger and the locavores
The futurist weighs in: The things we leave behind
Lies of rightwing populism: Those evil liberal elites
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site
What A Coincidence!
mikethemadbiologist | January 31, 2010It's still freezing. A good reason for links. Science:
Why The iPad Is Crap Futurism
British Newspapers Make Things Up
Life Imitating Life
UnPolitical America: A Crisis of Political Illiteracy?
Other:
A Colossal Failure Of Governance: The Reappointment of Ben Bernanke
Ladies, meet your new gender diversity coordinator, Mr. Angry Penis
SCREAM BLOODY MURDER....
He is sad because his house looks like an elementary school. And all the children have died.
Out of Auschwitz
A campaign funding mess
Where Was the Narrative?
Pelosi Demands Any Budget Freeze Also Apply To Military Spending
Sally…
mikethemadbiologist | January 29, 2010It's Freezing Friday. Links to keep ya warm. Science:
The Evolution of an Internet Meme
Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further
It was the best of sources, and the worst of sources: the Internet and health information
In Defense of the Beta Blocker
Increasing NIH funding means jobs and reputation for New England
Radical Inequality Is Literally Killing Us
How Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs: Reigniting basic research can repair the broken U.S. business model and put Americans back to work
Other:
Shocking discovery: Kids who fear sex are open to anti-sex messages…
mikethemadbiologist | January 28, 2010It's Thursday. And that means links. Or something. Science:
China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020
Research Project Grant Support For "Younger Researchers"
On the latest NIH soft-money kerfuffle
Collins warns Universities to roll back soft money jobs...sortof
Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare
Other:
Reframing Public Ignorance
Civil unions and straight marriage
LUCY, CHARLIE BROWN, AND THE BIPARTISAN FOOTBALL....
How Wall Street Destroyed Health Care
Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
Not A Single Intelligent…
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 Works
Rice, alcohol and genes
Experts stunned by swan 'divorce' at Slimbridge wetland
Is Algae Worse than Corn for Biofuels? A new analysis suggests so because of the need for copious fertilizer
The Science of Success
Other:
The Case Against Benanke
The bad faith issue in the "stupid/evil" debate
Maybe Ben Bernanke is a Conservative Republican
This Is Not What I Elected You do Do, Barack Obama. Do Better!
How to Spot a Deficit…