Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | December 8, 2009Merry Tuesday. Links for you. Science:
Intensive care unit (ICU) infections can lengthen hospital stays
Hospital workers fired for refusing vaccinations
The science boys' club strikes again
Yet another nail in the coffin of the myth that the MMR vaccine causes autism
Solar Cell 40% Efficiency Breakthough, becomes Product Ready
MIT Breakthrough can generate electricity w ZERO CO2 atmospheric emissions from Natural Gas
In Pictures: Moose on the loose
Prejudice vs. biology - testosterone makes people more selfish, but only if they think it does
Other:
Tiger Woods Falls Into a Trap
Ten Ways to…
mikethemadbiologist | December 6, 2009Winter has finally arrived. Time to read links! Science:
Statistics, damn statistics and well kept secrets
How to report in vitro cancer studies: maitake mushroom extract doesn't "fight cancer"
Because As We All Know, The Green Party Runs the World.
Repeated break-ins point to 'orchestrated campaign' by climate skeptics
Other:
This is central to his point, I guess
New Agers and Creationists should not be President
Hacked E-mails and "Journalistic Tribalism": Climate coverage is imperfect, but is it ideologically biased?
Michael Shermer: False profit of Libertarian education
The wrong jobs…
mikethemadbiologist | December 3, 2009Merry Thursday. Here are some links. Science:
Artificial Meat
OSU President Blocks NIH Funded Science to Appease Philanthropist
How critical is the "Environment" in the NIH grant application?
"ID theory" hasn't been "reduced to" a tool in the Culture Wars - that's what it was designed as.
Mammogram flap a case of communication malpractice
Other:
Professor advises underwater homeowners to walk away from mortgages
Entering the Superproject Void
Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public: Alice Schroeder
Solidarity for me, not for thee
The Fall and Rise of Media
The world's largest guilt trip…
mikethemadbiologist | November 25, 2009If you're traveling today, I hope it's not too bad. Here are some links for you. Science:
Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science
Where's the Clean Energy?
Regreening Africa
Other:
Man Made Disaster in New Orleans
Who's Who and What's Up with the Manhattan Declaration
The Right Way to Regulate
Slacker Friday
Library users against health care bill
Sarah Palin, WWE Star
L. RON BECK
How the media and the GOP turn lies into zombie lies - a health care case study
The Conspiracy to Kill the New Deal; Yes it's Real
mikethemadbiologist | November 22, 2009Links for you. Science:
Really rethinking breast cancer screening
"Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon
Give Young Scientists a Break: I don't know if I could have even started my career in today's funding environment.
Needles in Haystacks
Extinction of Giant Mammals Changed Landscape Dramatically
Other:
GOING ROGUE
In Defense of New York
Pickett's charges
"...Why People Like to Stuff People Like You into Ovens"
Ivy Zelman: "Home prices are going back down"
What Really Happened with the AIG Swaps? It's Not What You…
mikethemadbiologist | November 20, 2009Happy Friday. Lotsa links for your weekend. Science:
Hippos are photographed biting a crocodile to death
Virus helps save the American Chestnut tree
Say hello to a titanic ancestor
Can We Build Our Way to Reduced Carbon Emissions?
Heritability of sociopathy
Climate change catastrophe took just months
Other:
Why you can't trust a damn thing they say
They forgot
Facebook Confessions
President Announces Realistic Hope Agenda
Afghan Escalation Would Make One-Year Pentagon Budget Almost As Big as Entire 10-Year Health Bill
What the Future May Hold
A false choice in health care battle
You have no…
mikethemadbiologist | November 18, 2009Halfway through the week. Some links for you. Science:
Poll: American Public Supports Investment in Prevention As Part of Health Care Reform
A SMART Plan? No, A Wackaloon Dumbfuck Plan!
The common cold and influenza
Holy Shit! A new way of finding out how diet affects gut microbes
What's killing the bats? At least 1 million have died in the past three years from a mysterious disease, posing serious questions for our environment.
Other:
Why Jews Vote Like Puerto Ricans (and not Episcopalians)
Where are the real deficit hawks?
Krugman on the Need for Jobs Policies
Stupak and the bishops, the…
mikethemadbiologist | November 13, 2009Have a Fabulous Friday! Links for you:
Some Thoughts on Historians and Contemporary Anti-evolutionism.
Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again
Dear Sarah: Keep up the great writing!
Bible That Vanished on Kristallnacht Is Heading Home
Hi, I'm Marty, and I'm a recovering Republican: I was a feminazi-hating, liberal-bashing loudmouth who tried to befriend Bill O'Reilly. Man, I was such a douche
Do Businesses Hate Their Workers? (Income Disparity Myths Edition)
Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revenge
The "Independent" Granfalloon
Whose Team Is It, Anyway?…
mikethemadbiologist | November 10, 2009Merry Tuesday. Links for ya. Science:
FDA Urged to Ban Feeding of Chicken Feces to Cattle
The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up: Optimism as a Public Health Problem
What does not kill the group, makes it stronger!
Other:
Los Angeles Without Traffic
Destroying the Democratic Majority
Gladwell for Dummies
The Case for Karen Armstrong
Health Care Reform Update: Who's Selling Out and Why
I'm Done Talking About Abortion
Acknowledging Obama's failures
What I Trust Obama For (and why he gets NOTHING from me)
Why won't Obama give you a job?
mikethemadbiologist | November 6, 2009Thank the Intelligent Designer it's Friday; I've had a long week. Anyway, here are some weekend links for you. Science:
Special panel says state in midst of "epidemic'' of OxyContin and heroin use
Clostridium difficile infection is spreading from the hospital to the community
Deep in the Forest, Bambi Remains The Cold War's Last Prisoner: Deer Still Shun Iron Curtain Border, 20 Years After the Guards and Barbed Wire Vanished
Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'
Other:
What If Obama Didn't Need 60 Votes?
The real reason the climate bill is going to suck
Budget context
Reconstruction for the…
mikethemadbiologist | November 2, 2009Sunset in Boston is at 4:36pm today, which means, if you're in Boston and reading this, it's dark out. Anyway, to chase away the darkness, here are some links. Science:
Probably guilty: Bad mathematics means rough justice
An open letter to Steve Levitt
Equating The Scientific Method With A Herd Mentality
New York study says menu labeling affects behavior
Australia: Southern Bluefin Tuna crashing toward extinction to feed sushi & sushimi market
Statins for influenza. Why don't we know if it works yet?
Other:
From Cell Phones to Health Care -- Americans Are Rubes
The Iron Cheer of Empire…
mikethemadbiologist | October 30, 2009Merry Friday. Here are some links for you. Science:
Mantis shrimp eyes outclass DVD players, inspire new technology
Inferring deep history in genes
Statisticians reject global cooling
Why is the swine flu vaccine so late? Who are you to ask such a question?
The Insanity of the FDA Approved Obesity Drug for Dogs
Indirect Cost Snooping
Other:
Elizabeth Warren for President
Birth date, business cycles, and lifetime income
Cupidity and Stupidity Both Run Rampant on Wall Street
Why I Am Leaving Daily Kos - Public Option Bait and Switch
A Mid Autumn Night's Rant
Never Send a Boy to Do a Man's Job
mikethemadbiologist | October 28, 2009Merry Wednesday. Links for ya:
Male Chauvinist Chimps or the Meat Market of Public Opinion?
Rep. Weiner calls on GOP opponents of public option to give up their Medicare.
Cutting Pay, Wall St. vs Main St.
How the other 75 percent lives
Shorter Douthat: It's embarassing to be such a bigot
Mobility as a Basic Human Right
Waiting for grandma to die
Fed Authorized 100% Payout by AIG on CDS
It's About Deficits & Finite Resources, Not About Hippies Who Want to Get Stoned
Sexist Beatdown: Superfreak Edition
mikethemadbiologist | October 24, 2009Links for a rainy weekend. Science:
The arc of evolutionary genetics is long
An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
McCain's Male Voters Suffered Testosterone Drop
Breaking the Link - Darwinius revealed as ancestor of nothing
The arcs of evolutionary genetics always cross back
CBS News on swine flu testing: Fail!
Other:
Feminists get married?!
Gang Mentality
Post's Rein thinks she knows your dreams
Where Will the Jobs Come From?
JOHN KERRY DELIVERS IN AFGHANISTAN....
A New Civil Rights Movement is Afoot for the Middle Class
Nobel prize-winning economist…
mikethemadbiologist | October 23, 2009Merry Friday. Some links for you. TEH SCIENCISMZ!!:
Anti-Vaccine Idiocy
The albatross around all our necks
Skeptic Arguments and What the Science Says
Yet More Superfreakonomics Blogging. Yes. I Know. I Know...
Other:
Corporate Supremacy and the Rape of a Human Girl
The Basil Fawlty effect - bosses bully you because THEY feel incompetent
Already "Offshoring" Our Green Manufacturing Revolution
An Excise Tax On Health Insurance Benefits Is Middle Class Regressive
Making the Grade Isn't About Race. It's About Parents.
Loanership
HEY, JOE, WHERE YOU DOING WITH THAT GUN IN YOUR HAND?
mikethemadbiologist | October 19, 2009Merry Monday. Links for you. Science:
Bill Maher Is Still Wrong About Swine Flu Vaccine
Lost Greek city that may have inspired Atlantis myth gives up secrets
Nothing to Fear but the Flu Itself
Green spaces 'improve health'
Other:
American Jews Rethink Israel
Kilcullen's Long War
Claims of Financial Reform Victory? You Can't Reform Vampires and Zombies
Rock bottomless
The Reconstruction of American Journalism
mikethemadbiologist | October 18, 2009I'm enjoying the Nor'easter, so here are some fun links for you. Science:
Error-riddled 'Superfreakonomics': New book pushes global cooling myths, sheer illogic, and "patent nonsense" -- and the primary climatologist it relies on, Ken Caldeira, says "it is an inaccurate portrayal of me" and "misleading" in "many" places.
Error-riddled 'Superfreakonomics', Part 2: Who else have Nathan Myhrvold and the Groupthinkers at Intellectual Ventures duped and confused? Would you believe Bill Gates and Warren Buffett?
The Shoddy Statistics of Super Freakonomics
An Open Letter to Bill Maher on…
mikethemadbiologist | October 16, 2009Happy Friday. Some links for a cold, rainy weekend. Science:
The QuikSCAT satellite is in trouble
Why Have Americans Become More Obese?
Offensive Play: How different are dogfighting and football?
Row at US journal widens
National Academy as National Enquirer? PNAS Publishes Theory That Caterpillars Originated from Interspecies Sex
Other:
Stop Catering to Teh Crazy
The Insurance Industry's Deceptive Report
An institutional economics prize
Wall Street Smarts
mikethemadbiologist | October 8, 2009Merry Thursday! Here are some links for you. Science:
How to decide when to close a school because of swine flu
Protection Or Peril? Gun Possession Of Questionable Value In An Assault, Study Finds
E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection
Aquacalypse Now
Do Moderates Have a Responsibility to Be More Vocal in S&R Discussions? Josh Rosenau Answers
Other:
LaHood: "If You Don't Want an Automobile, You Don't Have to Have One"
The joint Post/Obama defense of the Patriot Act and FISA
Tony Perkins and White Supremacy
Don't ever try to Jew down an atheist.
mikethemadbiologist | October 4, 2009Merry Sunday. Here are some links for you. Science:
Health care workers and mandatory flu vaccines
Richard Dawkins, accommodationist?
Survey Finds Just 40% of Adults "Absolutely Certain" They Will Get H1N1 Vaccine
Other:
Fed Chest-Thumping for Beginners
Madonna, Motherhood, and Choices
Guest Post: The Real Reason the Giant, Insolvent Banks Aren't Being Broken Up