Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | January 25, 2010Merry Monday. Links for you:
Public Knowledge of Science: The More Things Change, the More They Don't
Blog for choice: I'm pro-choice because I love life
I think maybe part of the reason you're so angry is you keep demanding that you get screwed and then, not surprisingly, you keep getting screwed
Coakley and the Rejection of the Working Class
7 Things About The Economy Everyone Should Be Worried About
Shock Doctrine in Reverse: A Week of Setbacks, A Window of Opportunity
American Idle
Covering Haiti: When the Media is the Disaster
Bullies
SC: Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer compares the poor to stray…
mikethemadbiologist | January 23, 2010Happy Saturday. Science links:
Gene and protein annotation: it's worse than you thought
The Platypus Is Cute but Far From Harmless
Slime Mold Beats Humans at Perfecting Traffic Networks
Most Britons descended from male farmers who left Iraq and Syria 10,000 years ago (and were seduced by the local hunter-gatherer women)
Scientists Find a Shared Gene in Dogs With Compulsive Behavior
Other:
Massachusetts revolts against the little kings and queens
Security theater jumps yet another shark
Will the Base Abandon Hope?
Sigh
Are You into the Easy Way out?
mikethemadbiologist | January 19, 2010Happy Traveling Tuesday! Links for you:
Rebooting science journalisTS
More Flame Bait
Inflation Targets and Financial Crises
The Unofficial List of Pundits/Experts Who Were Wrong on the Housing Bubble
Poll: Americans think standing for principle is more important than bipartisan compromise.
mikethemadbiologist | January 17, 2010Nice day yesterday, but snow tomorrow. Anyway, links for you. Science:
Illumina announces new arrival in the sequencing arms race
Monsanto GM Corn Linked to Organ Damage in Animals
Groups ask U.S. to regulate shipping of commercial bumblebees
Can Obama Stop the War on Science?
Other:
It's Not Your Money
POINTLESS DIVERSIONS
The Deeply Broken American Police System
NPF: THIS IS WHY YOU'RE FAT
HONEYMOON IN SAGINAW
What causes mass unemployment?
System Failure
mikethemadbiologist | January 15, 2010Thank Intelligent Designer it's Friday. Here are some links. Science:
It's Not Too Late to Get Vaccinated Against H1N1 Flu
Unscientific America and Pluto: The problem isn't the scientists
"Blithering idiocy"
Giant Spider Species Discovered in Middle Eastern Sand Dunes
Climate Denial Sociopathology, Creationism: Hacked Emails, Piltdown
The Future of Second Generation Sequencing
Other:
Poll: More Think Health Care Reform Isn't Ambitious Enough
How objectification silences women - the male glance as a psychological muzzle
Feminism Fail
Ancient Costa Rica Pt. 2: The narrow road to Guayabo
The…
mikethemadbiologist | January 14, 2010Happy Thursday. Links for you. Science:
Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again
AIDS Does Not Exist (denialism)
Too clever by, hmmm, about 5% a year
A Tale of Two Flagella
Rare self-rolling giant snow balls found in UK
Other:
Hang 'em High: Never, it seems, have punters been more valuable to NFL teams. So who are these guys--and why hasn't a single punter been voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Republicans, Heritage, and the false case against fiscal stimulus (warning: thinking cap required)
Think Again: Money for Nothing?
Faculty Protest Texas Football Coach's Raise
Gruber Doesn't…
mikethemadbiologist | January 11, 2010Merry Monday. Links fahr ya. Science:
Pet frogs linked to salmonella outbreak
Hospitals Could Stop Infections by Tackling Bacteria Patients Bring In, Studies Find
No, I'm not a millionaire either
To Media Covering Science: An Open Letter
How a psychiatrist can write 100,000 prescriptions a year, and what that means for primary care
Legislative Mandates for NIH Grant Awards
Other:
My rant against big media political "blogs" by way of "Black Tuesday" coverage
Why America Needs Trains
Next stop: Yemen
Walk Away From Your Mortgage!
That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood.
Bubbles…
mikethemadbiologist | January 9, 2010Merry Saturday. Here are some links for you. Science:
The Origin of the Future: Death by Mutation?
The price exacted by the anti-vaccine movement
Black men over-diagnosed with schizophrenia, University of Michigan research says
Oppose "Big Floss"; practice alternative dentistry
Big Apple Bugs: New Cockroach Species Discovered in NYC
Other:
Why Do "Efficient Markets" Economists Think a Speech by George W. Bush Caused the 2008 Financial Meltdown?
The Cognitively Weak, Financial Services, and Evil Rortybomb's Survey
How not to spy, by your friends in Al Qaeda
STIMULUS FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS…
mikethemadbiologist | January 7, 2010Merry Thursday! Links for you. Science:
Vaccines work
Crab that looks like a large strawberry
Using a Virus's Knack for Mutating to Wipe It Out
Helicocranchia pfefferi also known as ocean smiley pig
Other:
The Ruse of the Creative Class
All Together Now: Shut Up You Lefties!
Cut This Story!
How America Can Rise Again
It's Really Hard to Blog about Stuff You Actually Have Useful Knowledge of, I Discover
mikethemadbiologist | January 1, 2010Happy New Year! Time for some links. Science:
First U.S. case of extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis diagnosed
My Statistics Primer Revisited
Acacia plant controls ants with chemical
Aardvark cuteness
What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?
Other:
Mood: Grouchy?
Kodak, Bill Gates and efficient markets
Don't trust those servicers
On Goldman's (and Now Morgan Stanley's) Deceptive Synthetic CDO Practices (aka Screwing Their Customers)
"What's in Store for 2010â³
Craving terrorist melodrama
Skyrocketing Crime At The Six Flags
mikethemadbiologist | December 30, 2009Merry Wednesday. I work at a civilized place, so I'm off tomorrow...so that means links! Science:
Religiosity vs. health, state-by-state
It's OK! I'm a Scientist!
Ancient whale sucked mud for food
Scientists Harness Bacteria to Turn Microscopic Gears
Other:
IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE
Protocol Droid Speaks
How the status quo can kill: the example of free trade
The Case For the Millionaires Surtax
Movies win in the recession, but music is probably going to eat it
The Center does Not Hold... But Neither Does the Floor
What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?
mikethemadbiologist | December 28, 2009Last of the annual roundup of 2009.
TEH SWINEY FLOO!, Streptococcus, and the Forgotten Vaccine
If Your Business Model Requires Ridiculous Gouging, Then...
Public Hygiene and Vaccination: They're Not For You, They're For...
Economics: Does It All Come Down to Those Stupid F-cking Natural History Facts?
Blue Dog Dems, Healthcare, Viral Marketing, and Quantifying the Unquantifiable
Economics, Evolutionary Biology, and the Triumph of Data: Krugman Is Missing Part of the Story
Journalism Needs a Reformation, Not a Revolution
Blue Dog Dem Kent Conrad Isn't a 'Moderate', He's a Radical Ideologue…
mikethemadbiologist | December 27, 2009Since it's vacation, here's more of the annual roundup.
David Broder Defines the Banality of Evil
'Counterintuition', the Human Microbiome, and Why Fluency in Math Matters
Behavioral Economics: Not Everything Is Irrational
The Fitness Cost of Resistance Could Be...
"Could You Patent the Sun?"*
Men, Women, and Partying in Science
What Public Health Can Teach Economics
The Culture of Caution at NIH and Academia's Role
How Krugman Is Wrong About "Centrist" Democrats
The U.S. Can Teach Kids Math Provided...
Car Dealers and Correcting for Multiple Tests
Begley Mistakes the Symptom for the…
mikethemadbiologist | December 25, 2009It's yontif, and we don't blog on yontif, so here are some more highlights from 2009:
On Work and Time in Science
The Gates Arrest: The Police As an Occupying Forceâ
Unscientific America: On Planets and Theories
Some More Thoughts About Unscientific America: What Are We Trying to Communicate?
So, What Should Scientists Communicate?
Egg Donation, Stem Cell Research, and Lady Bits
Misunderstanding Palin and 'Palinism': It's the Politics of the Blood
A Significant, but Simple, Medical Advance: Hair Sheep Blood Agar Plates
Stimulus Package to Cities: Drop Dead?
On Scientific Embargoes: What…
mikethemadbiologist | December 24, 2009Since it's my birthday (and we do not work on this holy day), I'm giving links to some posts that got a lot of traffic or links (somebody liked them....). Enjoy:
Scientific Consensus Is a Process, Not a List of Names
To Restore Science to Its Rightful Place, We Need to Redefine Elitism
A Question for Science Journalists: What About the 'Other Side' of Science?
Note to Obama: You Need to Rebuild Trust Within Your Own Party
Why Were the Donut Fearers Ever Taken Seriously?
Obama and Self-Inflicted Negotiation: More of the Same?
Jindal Is Smart? Really?
How Is Turning Away the Mentally Ill a…
mikethemadbiologist | December 20, 2009The snow is about done up here. Time for some links. Science:
MRSA Hospital Infections Can Cost $61,000 Each to Treat
MRSA Infections Nearly Doubled Over Last 10 Years: Study
Wegman's ghostwriter revealed
Why Progressives Would Be "Batshit Crazy" To Listen to Nate Silver On Health Reform
Health Care on the Road to Neo-Feudalism
Rules of Thumb
This isn't what we were promised
The GOP had at most 55 Senators during Bush's presidency
Greenwashing, Jared, and Stocks: Diamond Looks at Corporations and Sees Green
Negotiation 101.
Defending Christmas from Christians "defending" Christmas…
mikethemadbiologist | December 18, 2009Happy Friday. I didn't get too sozzled at this years's Christmas Party. How about you? Science:
What Was Popular Mechanics Thinking?
Trash or treasure? The price of junk mail
Mild pandemic? Bite your tongue.
Other:
Why won't the Washington Post run a response to Sarah Palin?
Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants
Venomous responsibility
THE SOURCE OF THE DEFICIT MESS....
How Banks Fleece the Unemployed
What we have here is a failure to communicate
Doing Less With Less: What Are You Willing to Give Up from Journalism?
Why Progressives Would Be "Batshit Crazy" To Listen to Nate Silver…
mikethemadbiologist | December 15, 2009By the time you read this, I hopefully have been dismissed from jury duty. Science:
A Case Of Classic SwiftBoating: How The Right-Wing Noise Machine Manufactured 'Climategate'
Public health: flunking the test
The End of Chiropractic
Yogurt Enemas, Rolfing and Astral Healing for All!
Limits
The beckoning silence: Why half of the world's languages are in serious danger of dying out
There's More Than One Way to Split an Atom
Just a bit more on Merry Xmas
Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border
Obama's Delusion
Education Rate in U.S. Declines
What…
mikethemadbiologist | December 13, 2009It's freezing here in Boston, and that means... links! Science:
New Species of Orchid is World's Smallest
CDC sharply raises H1N1 case estimates; kids hit hard
56% - Do Americans Know Where Scientists Stand on Global Warming?
Always Bet On Stupid
Other:
Wheaton residents attracted to Paris-esque features
Rube Goldberg
Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List
Bernanke Used to Know What to Do
Obama's approach to the presidency, and whether he's a liberal
Putting the Plodding Moralism Back In
Knowingly False
Analyzing crazy beliefs
A Partisan Post, You Have Been Warned
Hipsters…
mikethemadbiologist | December 10, 2009Cold, gray, cruddy season. Time for some links! Science:
He Must Be Joking
A Visit to the Pratt University Steam Plant
Ashkenazi Jews are Middle Eastern & European hybrids
To really save the planet, stop going green
Other:
Volcker: Little Evidence Financial Innovation Has Helped Economy
Knowingly False
Does Terrorism Work?
Joe Fitzgerald's token Christmas-loving Jew
Even in Education, The House Always Wins
Why homes aren't investments, cont.
Schools that beat the odds.
Homes as Investments