Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | March 26, 2009Some good genomics and AIG links. Science stuff first:
The combat veteran as sheepdog-turned-wolf: PTSD & medicalization
The Problem of the Problem of Motherhood in Science
Hey kids, want to sequence a bacterial genome?
The next level in genomics term papers
Other:
The virtues of public anger and the need for more
Systemic Rut In Thinking About The Financial Crisis
How much do the bonuses matter
The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis
The Big Takeover
More on the bank plan
The Geithner Plan Won't Work
mikethemadbiologist | March 24, 2009Mr. Spock is Not Logical (book draft excerpt)
How questioning PTSD rates makes me an apologist for imperialist violence
The fertilized egg is not a human life
McLeroy Endorses Idiotic Anti-Evolution Book
Texans, please don't let this flat-earth BS happen
Other:
Love Me, I'm a Conservative
Bristol Palin, Teen Pregnancy, and Sex Education
The Public Image
Just when I thought I was out
The March Madness of Myles Brand
mikethemadbiologist | March 22, 2009Merry Sunday! Lotsa links for you:
Cramer/Stewart, The Right, The Wrong, and Democratic Loyalty.
The GOP Is Right, It Is Clinton's Fault
Don't worry! Stab yourself in the eye!
"Poor girl": Bristol Palin, and the chagrined pity of the right
The Right to Bare Arms
There's nothing unique about Jim Cramer
Sanjay Gupta & the Argument for Properly Calibrated Gov't Salaries
How to Be an Expert
In the Village... (The Shrimp?)
mikethemadbiologist | March 18, 2009Here are some posts for you. Science first:
What? The Great Lakes Too Obvious?
Make All Academic Research Databases Free For Everyone
Perverse Incentives
Palaeowomaen: Barbara Isaac, Women in The Field, and The Throwing Hypothesis
Other:
Left And Right Working Together
Please, spare us from the melodramatic populism
In praise of class warfare
Journalism, Civil Society and 21st Century Reportage
How to spot a hidden religious agenda
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Step 2: Documenting Bushvilles
mikethemadbiologist | March 13, 2009Here's some good reading for you to start your weekend. Science-related stuff first:
They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street
50 Reasons I Reject Evolution
The next evolutionary step for evo psych
Secrets of the toilet
Other:
Our Cognitive Dissonance on Both Hiring, and Firing, Teachers En Masse
If Private Insurance Is So Much More Efficient & Cost-Effective, Why Does It Cost More?
Creeping Galtism
Giving Excessive Self-Regard a Bad Name - (or John Galt, Esq.)
THEY'RE SPENDING HOW MUCH?....
America's Lost Decade
mikethemadbiologist | March 9, 2009Merry Monday! Science links first:
Top 10 Worst Things In Nature
Don't Bury the Next Generation of Researchers Under Billions in NIH Funding
A Very Optimistic Genetics Paper
Darwin, Atheism, and the Catholic Church
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008
Other:
Republicans are Failing their Constituents
Ed Rollins' Band
The Thin Line Between Socialism and Capitalist Nirvana
The casual, corrupting use of anonymity for political officials
If Only We Could Be So Lucky
Obama's timid liberalism
Obama, Bush Secret-Keeper
mikethemadbiologist | February 25, 2009Here are some links for you:
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger To Congress: My Pay Has Been Cut 40 Percent In Recent Years, Pension Terminated
The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon
Friendly Fire
No, actually, I don't "need to get on Facebook"
The Media Business: It's the Perspective, Stupid
The Myth Of The Filibuster: Dems Can't Make Republicans Talk All Night
mikethemadbiologist | February 22, 2009Some links for a rainy Sunday. Science:
"Evolutionary Psychology" Is A Load Of Fucking Shit
Greatest Poll Ever To Start On March 5th
The Man Who Lets the Bedbugs Bite
Other:
Chocolate Covered Cotton
Why the Banks Won't Lend
States on The Brink
Funding For States In Economic Recovery Package Will Close Less Than Half Of State Deficits
CAUTION: October 87 Re-Run On Deck?
mikethemadbiologist | February 18, 2009More linky goodness. Sciencey stuff first:
Why birds collide with airplanes
How religion generates social conservatism
Louisiana boycotts science; scientists boycott Louisiana
Note to Journalists Covering the AAAS Meetings: Stop Teasing Us!
Other:
Huge Public Demand for Investigation Into Bush Administration
Cut the Military Budget--II
Looting Social Security
Is there a general skill of "management"?
Dismal scientists: how the crash is reshaping economics
J.D. HAYWORTH: CHANNELING ANTI-SEMITES ... AGAIN
mikethemadbiologist | February 16, 2009Here are some links for you. Science first:
Great Moments in Human Evolution: The Invention of Chipped Stone Tools
How the common cold evolves - full genomes of all known human rhinoviruses
Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant
Virginia GOP Chair goes all Cro-Magnon on Darwin, on his birthday
Other:
Depression economics: Four options
End times for Milton Friedman?
My name is Jake. I...I...I am an adjunct. Hi Jake!
Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go
If Mitch McConnell (or, say, Judd Gregg) were a Mensch...
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Rethinking Keynes
mikethemadbiologist | February 13, 2009Merry Friday! Some good links for you. Science goes first:
Fisk, Interrupted (the Forbes creationist edition)
Wasps use genes stolen from ancient viruses to make biological weapons
Routine whole-genome sequencing of babies by 2019?
Other:
The internet made me a potty mouth
We're All Nebraskans Now
How to Save the Suburbs: Solutions from the Man Who Saw the Whole Thing Coming
In defense of Nancy
Wall Street Mocked American Values
Saving the Suburbs, Part 2
mikethemadbiologist | February 10, 2009Bedbugs and insecticide resistance
For shame, Forbes magazine
AGBT Day 1: Illumina Shines
Other:
What Is The Appeal Of Conservatism?
Stimulate the Arts and Keep America Strong
Bridges and Books: Bring Back the Federal Writers Project
Senate "Moderates" Cut 1 1/4 Million Jobs from Stimulus Bill
How to Perform Triage on the Banks and Stop the Bleeding
A CEO asks President Obama to "Raise My Taxes"
Cue the world's smallest violin
mikethemadbiologist | February 8, 2009No more football! (unless you consider the Pro Bowl to be football). But I got links! Science first:
Scienists and Engineers for America: Senate-passed stimulus package by the numbers
Cuttlefish tailor their defences to different predators
Game on: sequencing companies draw battle-lines for 2009 at AGBT
Whooping cough on the rise
Other:
You can't make this stuff up
Are We Going to Buy the Bezzle?
Hardball Time: Ditch the Stimulus
Bipartisan bromides
Dear Mr. President
Fundamentally flawed stimulus coverage
mikethemadbiologist | February 6, 2009Here are some good links. Science firstest:
Titanoboa - thirteen metres, one tonne, largest snake ever.
Did Triceratops fight with their faces?
Is Obesity Contagious?
Other:
Galbraith: Fiscal Balance and Credibility
Buy America or Bye America
Refuted economic doctrines #4: individual retirement accounts
The Bad Bank Assets Proposal: Even Worse Than You Imagined
Refuted economic doctrines #5: Trickle down
Depression economics: Four options
mikethemadbiologist | February 3, 2009Some links for ya:
Single gene allows glowing bacteria to switch from fish to squid
Discount DNA
Stimulus Spending and NSF Funding
Other:
WINDY: Women's groups lost the BC battle, won the stimulus war
Media Matters: Fetishizing off-center centrism
Guantanamo Bay Watch, the Final Season
In Defense Of Partisan Bickering or On Why Barney Frank Rocks
Lessons from the Stimulus Debate: Sex Ed For Talking Heads, Male Lawmakers
Obama Financial Team to Taxpayers: You'll Get Nothing, and Like It
Tired of Being Lectured by the Rich About Need for Austerity
Time for a Little Class Warfare (music &…
mikethemadbiologist | February 1, 2009Here are some links for you. Science/health first:
In Texas and Louisiana, Dinosaurs Steer Science Education
The Rightful Place Project Revisited...
Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses
The giant green fragrant parrot
Why Contraception Saves Money and Prevents Abortion
Other:
June 22, 2005: Fannie Mae Decides *Not* to Compete with the Private Sector in Making Stupid Housing Loans
I got a hand, so I got a fist, so I got a plan, it's the best I can do
Davos Man, Confused: Why the world's economic leaders blame the catastrophe on the system instead of themselves
Jobless in America…
mikethemadbiologist | January 31, 2009
My apologies to the Great Bard. Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day, this year co-hosted by skippy and Jon Swift. According to skippy, we're supposed to link to five smaller blogs. Below the fold, my five choices, and my mauling of Shakespeare in honor of Blogroll Amnesty Day:
Rev. BigDumbChimp
Drinking Liberally in New Milford
Sorting Out Science
Phronesisaical
Tangled Up in Blue Guy
And don't forget to check out the rest of the blogroll. Onto to the Blogroll Amnesty Day speech:
He that shall see this day and live t'old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say "To-morrow…
mikethemadbiologist | January 30, 2009Some links for you. Science:
Don't Risk Going Unvaccinated
Cell on "a unit of scientific advance"
MRSA ST398 in US swine
Creationism: The Very Bad Idea That Just Won't Die
Other:
Busting Balls: 20 ways to improve sports
President Obama and technology
Dodd and Larson Get an Earful on Healthcare
MA regulators: Did Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Partners HealthCare collude to fix prices and raise rates 75%?
Greed and Delusion on Wall Street
What Are Chicago's Economists Thinking?
"A Dark Age of Macroeconomics"
THE POST AND THE END OF AN ERA! Colbert King's column was a disgrace. It captured a 16-…
mikethemadbiologist | January 27, 2009Here are some links. Science-related stuff:
Lottery Probabilities and Clueless Reporters
Obama, Wyeth and Pfizer's Disease - Updated
Bat sickness spreads: Pennsylvania animals found with white nose syndrome
Study Pinpoints Main Source of Asia's Brown Cloud
Tree Deaths Have Doubled Across the Western U.S. -- Regional Warming May be the Cause
Flu And You - Part III
Other:
The Sleeping Giant Has Awakened
Wall Street's Sick Psychology of Entitlement
The End is Near, You IT Bastards!
Seeing and Believing
Jon Chait Is Right
A Liberal Translation
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
mikethemadbiologist | January 22, 2009Here are some links for you. Science goes first:
What Does it Mean to "Learn Science"?
Surgical checklists as a strategy to reduce morbidity and mortality
Salmonella--a little background
Three groups of fish are actually the males, females and larvae of one family
Happiness in Ignorance: HIV Deniers
Other:
Advice for Duncan: The Professor
'Molon labe': Folks on the fringe right are fearfully fingering their triggers
Lindauer Exonerated
What Obama Must Do: A Letter to the New President
Out of the Woodwork
Jane Mayer on Being Immortalized by the Pro-Torture "24"
WARNING! THE LIBERAL ARTS ARE…