Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | October 2, 2009Merry Friday. Here are some links for you. Science:
Tyrannosaurus Suffered From Bird Disease
Irving Kristol and Evolution
Blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus)
"Gentlemen Shall Lean to the Left"
More CongressCritter Meddling in the NIH Grant Process
Other:
How to talk to complete idiots: Three basic options. Choose wisely, lest you go totally insane
Always the resentment's directed at the wrong target
SWINE: Why Are Insurers Blocking H1N1 Treatment Prescriptions?
Apple and Howard Dean, or Private Companies Make Bad Public Utilities
Do you drink from public water fountains?
Doesn't Get Any More…
mikethemadbiologist | September 12, 2009Happy Saturday! Some links for you. Science first:
The depressing math of swine flu, ICUs and ventilators
War against H1N1 likely to be fought in intensive care units
Beware of Velociraptor Attacks from Above
Missing from healthcare reform: the autopsy
Medicine's Dangerous Guessing Game
Other:
Boston's Incredible Shrinking Skyscraper: The Hancock Tower lost half its value in a year. The rest of commercial real estate could be next.
I Think You're an Asshole, And I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Act Like an Asshole, But You're Still an Asshole, Asshole
Obama's Speech: The Poll Tax…
mikethemadbiologist | September 8, 2009Merry Tuesday. Links for you. Science:
Report: Bill Nye "The Science Guy" Exposed as Godless, Soulless Blasphemer in Texas
The price and privilege of beefcake
Bonus Dinosaur of the Week--Paleontology and The Excavation Process.
Other:
The Stay-In-School Conspiracy Theory
Casual Fridays: We believe we're the thriftiest people we know
Why Health Care Reform In The U.S. Is Doomed
Hiding Truths from the Goyim--and Ourselves
Sick and Wrong: How Washington is screwing up health care reform - and why it may take a revolt to fix it
Moyers Special Comment to Obama: "Mr. President. We need a fighter…
mikethemadbiologist | September 6, 2009Sure, it's nice outside, but wouldn't you rather be reading good posts? Science:
Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck
Genes and Income
15 Horrifying Reasons to Never Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonald's
Placebo is not what you think it is
Other:
Quit Giving Us More Work
A cake knife is useless in a gunfight: President Obama has only himself to blame for the healthcare reform quagmire
More Lies from David Broder (Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned-and-Smoking Watch)
Obama: Using Your Dead Mom as a Campaign Prop is Despicable
A Decent Health Care Reform Plan-from Max Baucus
On Being Hated In…
mikethemadbiologist | September 4, 2009Here's some good reading for your long weekend. Science:
Dehumanizing the Two Cultures
How global warming sealed the fate of the world's coral reefs
Great Barrier Reef facing 'catastrophic damage' from climate change
Great Barrier Reef faces catastrophe
200-pound snake killed in Okeechobee adds to mounting python woes
Other:
A Missing Ingredient in Health-Care Coverage
The Gestapo Precedent for "EITs"
Confusion is not the word you're looking for
No, Seriously, Dude, Acolyte?
Joke Line v. Crazy Hobo
No Jews Need Apply...
The system Republicans and other crazies are defending
Gang of Six,…
mikethemadbiologist | September 1, 2009This blogging thing would be easier if the series of tubes that is the Internet were clogged up a bit more. Anyway, here are some links for you. Science:
Holy **** at this anti-evolution victory in Missouri.
If You Are So Rich, Why Aren't You Smart?
Greg Mankiw Hearts Genetic Determinism
Are climate change deniers like creationists?
A threat to scientific communication
Other:
The "Menaissance" and Its Dickscontents
I don't care about business models of journalism/publishing.
More health care problems that no one talks about
A Precedent that will Reach to Himself
Why I'm A Ted Kennedy…
mikethemadbiologist | August 30, 2009More stuff I never get to blogging about. Maybe you will! Science:
Reducing Quinolone Antibiotic Use Lowers Resistance
FCC Hires Industry Shill to Develop US National Broadband Plan
The Game The Whole Family Can Play!
Other:
What Would Teddy Do? Part 3
Roads that are designed to kill
Pete Stark: Dem moderates "brain dead"
Finance: Before the Next Meltdown
The burden of debt
The GOP, Not the Senate, Is Broken
Late Night: Conservative Girls, Send Me a Dozen
How Don Draper Would Sell Health Care Reform
Imagine a capital city where you don't have to worry about being violently attacked near…
mikethemadbiologist | August 26, 2009More stuff I'll never be able to blog about. Science:
Let God sort them out
The Three Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Natural Selection
Noncaloric sweeteners might not be the solution either
Viruses are going to save our butts.
Missouri bans wrong plastic from rivers
Other:
A Short Post on Capitalism and Healthcare
Dying for affordable healthcare -- the uninsured speak
We're Incompetent and Here's How We'll Win
Keeping the Powder Dry
The 5 Most Embarrassing Failures in the History of Terrorism
My Two Dollar Newspaper Sucks
1 Million Strong Against our SOCIALIST Fire Departments
mikethemadbiologist | August 24, 2009More stuff I'll never get around to blogging about. Science:
On learning from "doing the math"
Officials Brace For An H1N1 Resurgence
No more 'alpha male'!
Bonus Dinosaur of the Week--Dinosaurian Death in Decidedly Drenched Dirt.
Other:
The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult
Right-Wing Cranks and Israel
No, Wait, I Know This One--the Answer to "Who Does Joe Klein Think is the Crazy Left?" Glenn Greenwald, for fifty points.
A Public Option That Works
What should we have known?
What Socialist Liberals and Bad Evil Government Have Foisted on America
Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by…
mikethemadbiologist | August 22, 2009Happy Saturday. Here are some links. Science:
Francis Collins' "Five Themes" for the NIH
Who's a scientist?
Intelligent Design Question: What Is a Scientist?
Other:
The View From My Recession
THE PENANCE HAS NOT BEEN PAID, PART II....
What's Wrong WIth The Democratic Party, Part #74,397
There Are No Whole Foods Stores
Why Orrin Hatch Lies a Lot (and Pete Domenici, Bob Dole, and Chuck Grassley too)
"Death Panels." A most excellent term.
Deconstructing the Right Wing Lies on the Health Insurance Bill -- Pages 1-500
Pre-existing conditions, perverse incentives
The Burden of Private and…
mikethemadbiologist | August 17, 2009Here are some links for you. Science:
Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
Next Generation DNA Sequencing does more than sequence DNA
Rooks Are Smarter Than Many Americans
Other:
"2007 was an incredibly good year for the super rich"
WHAT ARE THEY SO MAD ABOUT?....
Why I Interrupted Bill Clinton's Speech at Netroots Nation
Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States
mikethemadbiologist | August 14, 2009Here are some links for you. Science:
Why Exercise is Not the Best Prescription for Weight Loss
Book Review: Unscientific America
Another rich white guy sequences own genome
Anthrax bacteria get help from viruses and worms to survive
"Is it the pot that made him lazy DM?"
Dinosaur of the Week--Acrocanthosaurus.
Other:
Schools Need Teachers Like Me. I Just Can't Stay.
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?
I am an American conservative shithead
Governor Palin's Crazed Health Care Rant: Blame The Washington Post
Don't Talk To Me About Death Panels
Silent Questions
How did health care turn into hate…
mikethemadbiologist | August 6, 2009Here are some Thursday links for you. Science:
World's fisheries at risk of collapse, but recovery is possible, study finds
Complacency Bolsters A Pandemic
She Blinded Me With Science
Luke Jostins on the twice-sequenced genome
Other:
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe
A Vibrant US Train Industry Would Employ More People Than Car Makers Do Now
Class, Not 'Race'
Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire. And Ten Steps to Take to Do So
mikethemadbiologist | July 31, 2009Happy Weekend! (in a few hours, anyway). Here are some links for you.
Irresponsible punditry
Evil Syndicated
Save us all from portrayals of responsible alcohol use
'The Cause of My Life': Inside the fight for universal health care.
Health-care Reform and Congress
Other:
Irresponsible punditry
Evil Syndicated
Save us all from portrayals of responsible alcohol use
'The Cause of My Life': Inside the fight for universal health care.
Health-care Reform and Congress
My Health Insurance just went up 38%
Why You Can't Trust Your Health Insurer
The Health Care Bill Dies?
My Health Insurance just…
mikethemadbiologist | July 28, 2009Happy Tuesday! Here are some links for you. Science:
Transmission, pathogenicity, virulence and vaccines, I.
Transmission, pathogenicity, virulence and vaccines, part II.
An Iconoclastic Endosymbiont
Other:
Obama, Don't Feed Me to the Insurance Companies. I Want Medicare.
Liberal Bloc Rebels Against Baucus as HCAN Goes After Dogs
Why markets can't cure healthcare
The cops work for you, or they're supposed to
The System At Work
How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off the birther story
"Bipartisan Compromise" = "Everyone's Screwed"
What the Public Option MUST Have To Survive
mikethemadbiologist | July 26, 2009Merry Sunday! Here are some links. Science:
This is why I blog: gratitude from stellar student, recovering addict seeking grad school advice
Amyloid plaques, bacteria trigger immune response
How would you like some posturing Congress Critter to de-fund your grant?
Swine flu: not down for the count
Other:
Privileging opposition to abortion
Mike Castle Plays Poker With Crazy People
Crazy Never Sleeps
Who Is a Convert?
Sales pitch still needs work: At his healthcare press conference, Obama still didn't have the right language to sell the idea
An American ex-pat's view of the Western European…
mikethemadbiologist | July 24, 2009Here are some links for you. Science:
Pork producers resist resisting antibiotic resistance
George Will's Crack Fact-Checkers Continue Their Nap
Why False Positive Results Are So Common In Medicine
Other:
Should We Bring Back The 90% Top Tax Rate?
Bookblogging: The rise of the efficient markets hypothesis
Nightmare on Ware Street
Medieval battle records go online
Fifty Ways To Kill Recovery
mikethemadbiologist | July 22, 2009Now that ScienceBlogs is unborked, here are some links for you. Science:
So, What Should Scientists Communicate?
Egg Donation, Stem Cell Research, and Lady Bits
Science is interesting. If you don't like it, it's your problem not mine.
Japanese fishermen brace for giant jellyfish
Squirrely Physics
Other:
Transportation Reform and Public Health
At Least They're Not on Life Support
What Defines A Democrat?
J Street and the Haters
If Congress Fails to Pass the Obama Health Care Plan
Conserving Rightie Cognitive Resources
On the Unwillingness of Economists to Recant, Even in the Face of Evidence…
mikethemadbiologist | July 19, 2009Here are some links to polish off your weekend. Science:
Dancing with Demons
Autism: It's the Environment, Not Just Doctors Diagnosing More Disease
PZ Myers vs. Unscientific America: Part III
Unscientific America: Are scientists all on the same team?
Mustang americanus
Other:
Does Income Inequality Explain the Boom?
Goldman Really Needs Our Help!
The real price of Goldman's giganto-profits
Very off topic: Why I won't be at my high school reunion
Health Care Costs Part 1: The Single Payer Challenge To the Public Option
Buchanan is right. This white man is full of resentment.
Ten Things You…
mikethemadbiologist | July 10, 2009Happy Friday! Links for you. Science:
Journalists Unclear on the Concept
Microcosm Week: Dreaming of a Complete Solution to Life
The Bees of Brookline...Real Estate Schadenfreude Post
News flash: beetles are not the same as women
If the research doesn't say what you want, just lie about it
Other:
A Message to President Obama: Stop Priming the Pump, Hire the Unemployed
He must be so proud
Why Did the Washington Post Sack Dan Froomkin?
If it's a tribe, how come you can't be born into it?
Debunking Canadian health care myths