Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | June 27, 2011Because you can never get too much hemolytic uremic syndrome. Erm, that didn't come out right. Look over there! Links! Science:
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in history--part 4: the bigger picture
Epidemiology and social media: conference fail
E. coli: Some Answers, Many Questions Still
Low-calorie diet offers hope of cure for type 2 diabetes
Other:
Social Security and Medicare Cuts: Washington's War on the Young
Why being vegetarian can kill more animals than eating meat
Development Roundup: demand for high-end housing is leading Boston developers to propose new apartment buildings.…
mikethemadbiologist | June 26, 2011Links for you. Science:
Not Enough Antibiotics: Just an Incentives Problem?
The long and winding road to a PhD [infographic]
A Proposal of Genomic Analytical Workflow in a Bacterial Pathogen Outbreak Investigation
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Natural Selection and Evolution, with a Key to Many Complicating Factors
Other:
Working until we drop: A fable for our times (must-read)
Clarence Thomas Decided Three Cases Where AEI Filed A Brief After AEI Gave Him A $15,000 Gift
I Do This Why?
Alex Andreou: Democracy vs Mythology - The Battle in Syntagma Square
In the Integer-Based Community…
mikethemadbiologist | June 25, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ancient Europe: Cannibalism in England
Fido Might Not Know What You Do and Do Not See
National Institutes of Health 1.0
As E. coli continues to claim lives, new approaches offer hope
Other:
The Next Public Option (about education; last sentence is priceless)
Finance Capitalism: Has It Eaten Its Own Entrails in Mortgage Fraud Debacle? (excellent synposis)
Another Election About Nothing
Three words: Predator Drones. Domestically.
Vote Suppression: the long strategy
Greek state starting to lose grip on functions of state
For Press, Secession No Longer Campaign "Roadblock…
mikethemadbiologist | June 24, 2011Links for you. Science:
White-Nose Syndrome
Science publishers don't care about the public
E. coli data released under Creative Commons 0 license
Worried about deliberate introduction of the German E. coli germ? Please read this.
Department Of Energy Makes $150M Bet On Solar Tech
Other:
Justices Have Been Forced To Resign For Doing What Clarence Thomas Has Done
American youth: Digitally skilled and unemployable.
Why The Atlantic's Article On New Age Medicine Is Wrong
Tax increases will create American jobs (raising taxes increases the value of tax expenditures/deductions)
Transportation…
mikethemadbiologist | June 22, 2011Gray. Rainy. Here are some links to brighten things up. Science:
Massive Neandertal Denisovan introgression
Sue the TRex lipbalm
How I Taught Third Graders Binary Numbers
SNP-based phylogeny confirms similarity of E. coli outbreak to EAEC Ec55989
Other:
Michael Hudson: Free Money Creation to Bail Out Financial Speculators, but not Social Security or Medicare (must read; key point is that Wall Street is perfectly willing to be Chartalist when it helps Wall Street)
With Friends Like These
How Republicans Talk About Climate When No One's Listening
At least this can't happen on the Orange…
mikethemadbiologist | June 21, 2011Links for you. Science:
Today's falsehood: Correlation Implies/Does Not Imply Causality
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in history--part 1
Synthetic biology: Parlor trick, or proof of concept?
The German E. coli outbreak: 40 lives and hours of crowdsourced sequence analysis later
Deadly Fungus Invades Frogs' Last Safe Haven in Central America
Other:
Get Radical: Raise Social Security
The ACORN Precedent
Close Encounters of the Tax Myth Kind
Who should we listen to, Marcy Kaptur or Our Davy Brooks? (Yes, but who'll GET listened to?)
All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup
Retail Sales Falter…
mikethemadbiologist | June 20, 2011Links for you. Science:
Five statistical things I wished I had been taught 20 years ago
Safe havens for disease: Low vaccination rates in some Illinois schools raise risk of outbreaks, experts say (and this picture is worth a thousand words)
Bachmann: Schools should teach intelligent design (will education 'reformers' oppose this? Doubtful)
Complete map of German E. coli O104 (Acronym STpEAEC) genome released
Other:
The Swimming Pool that Turned into a Museum
Full Employment, Quits and Private Tyrannies
Totally. Fucking. Clueless. (it is really remarkable just how, well, clueless the Obama…
mikethemadbiologist | June 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
Felisa Wolfe-Simon Does NOT Get It
And now, from the Insane Clown Posse wing of the climate change debate...
Cheap vaccine eradicates new cases of meningitis A
The Noble Priesthood and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
The Government's Addiction Expert Says We Like What We Like Because We Like It
The "triumph" of New Age medicine? The Atlantic strikes again
UPDATE: Methods Behind BGI's Madness (interested in China's desire to set up its own Genbank; maybe this will lead to improvements at NCBI?)
Other:
OUR ABORTION WAS DIFFERENT: WHEN THE ANTI-CHOICE CHOOSE
Ga.'s farm-…
mikethemadbiologist | June 18, 2011Links for you. Science:
Genetic family trees show the German outbreak of E coli is a member of small family of germs called EAEC that includes an African germ and is distinct from EHECs
Goodbye Team D? When One State's Cuts Hurt Everyone
Choprawoo returns, this time with help from Bruce Lipton
Universal influenza vaccination may reduce health care costs in the U.S.
Other:
How can small groups put a stop to bad behaviour? Make it a race for second place
You Can't Be Around Women Without Groping Them
CNN Asks The Right Question. Republicans Have No Answer.
How to Cut Child Poverty in Half
They…
mikethemadbiologist | June 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
When Food Kills
"Surreal" Vegetarian Spider Found -- A First
Urban Wildlife Watch: 13 Year Cicadas
Angry Crows Attack Police Officers In Everett, Washington
Other:
It's the Health Care Costs, Stupid
In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war
Bill Maher and Jane Lynch Give Dramatic Weiner Text Reading (definitely not safe for work)
When miracle schools aren't so miraculous after all
Cut Wall Street Down to Size With a Financial Speculation Tax
Strategies for Resistance and Change
Real Talk
Flattering lie
Why the debt ceiling is about dirty…
mikethemadbiologist | June 16, 2011Links for you. Science:
The outbreak strains have similar pathogencity as Ecoli EAEC strain 55989: Alignment of virulence factors from VFDB
Resistance genes plus adhesin in the chromosome? (more O104:H4 goodness)
E. coli outbreak and biofilms
Creationism creeps into mainstream geology
In Politics History Matters, Science..Not So Much
Other:
My Happy Abortion: One Woman's Guilt-Free Story
The Green Revolution Backfires: Sweden's Lesson for Real Sustainability
Rogoff: Age of Transit Systems "Spooky"
The Case For Co-Ed Dorms
NOTHING EVER CHANGES
A library is many things
The conservative war on…
mikethemadbiologist | June 15, 2011Links for you. Science:
E. coli data released under Creative Commons 0 license
In Pictures: Spotting weedy seadragons of Australia
Beavers get tough defending their turf
Aggregative plasmid - new E. coli genome from HPA
After David Koch Leaves NIH Board, NIH Hands Down Long-Delayed Classification Of Top Koch Pollutant As A Carcinogen
Chemical Free Crazies
Other:
Building Better Kids: It's the Preschools, Stupid
The Giant Banks Are ALREADY State-Sponsored ... So Why Not Create Public Banks to at Least Share the Gains, Help Out Main Street, and Grow Our Local Economies?
It's all about sex,…
mikethemadbiologist | June 13, 2011What is the sun doing in the sky? Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Charity: Save Four Million Lives With Vaccines
Grape-Sized Amoeba Raises Questions About Origins of Animal Life
Risk, probability, and how our brains are easily misled
An early cure for parents' vaccine panic
Other:
The faith-based economics of deficit reduction
Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom (don't forget about all the naughty sex you can't have in these 'free' places either)
Saudi Arabia on the Hudson: NYPD Officer Stopped Cyclist For Wearing Skirt
Are All Labor Market Matching Problems Structural?
A life in…
mikethemadbiologist | June 12, 2011Dear rest of the East Coast, please stop hogging all of the heat wave. As a gesture of good faith, I'll share some links with you. Science:
Advice for Grad Students
Gould's "Unconscious Manipulation of Data"
NDM-1 in a US military hospital in Afghanistan
Ruling Favors a 10-Inch Citizen of France
Other:
Carbon tax now
Troubling Economic Signs for Obama's Re-Election
Beck University's David Barton: The Founders settled creation/evolution long before Darwin
Why I Don't Hate On Weiner (good post, but I 'hate on' the phrase 'hate on'...)
On Weinergate: Before Throwing Stones...
How to Cut…
mikethemadbiologist | June 11, 2011Links for you. Science:
The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias
Once more unto the "government waste" breach
Announcing The Batavia Open Genomic Data Licence
No joke: This is the biggest battery breakthrough ever
Other:
Making work
Beyond the Drug War: Drug Policy, Social Interventions, and the Future
The Rentier Regime
Against prudery
Weiner, Spitzer, Clinton and the Web of Authoritarian Sexual Politics
In defense of nekkid pictures, even of dudes
Hyperinflation for Hyperventilators
Our Wasteful Health Care System
mikethemadbiologist | June 10, 2011Links for you. Science:
Waffling over E. coli cause points to 'incompetence,' US expert says (Poor title that triggers anti-U.S. rage; EU public health people think its amateur hour too)
How to Teach Physics Real Good
Some NIH grants should fail
PCR: A Revolutionary Invention
So Much More Than Plasma and Poison
Other:
In Who's Interest?
State, local layoffs to hit record levels
The Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin Gives Goldman a Rubdown
Vets to Delta: Stop Charging Troops for Combat Equipment
mikethemadbiologist | June 10, 2011Here are some O104:H4 links. The E.coli O104:H4 Genome Analysis Crowdsourcing wiki is also a good source of the latest scientific information. Anyway, links:
TGAC helps in crowd-sourcing analysis of E. coli strain
Possible T6SS in EAEC 55989 is absent from TY2482 genome?
STEC/EHEC outbreak - horizontally transferred genes
Phage analysis of German E. coli outbreak genome
E. coli: What we know and need to
E. Coli: Don't Blame the Sprouts!
Typing of German E. coli
More Stomach-Churning Facts about the E. Coli Outbreak
Are Bean Sprouts the End of Organic Farming? Nah.
New German STEC/EHEC data…
mikethemadbiologist | June 9, 2011Stormy and hot today. Stay inside with some links. Science:
Why are sore throats cultured, and why are antibiotics administered
No fixed address
NSF requests for "conflicts of interest" lists drive me batty and seem to penalize collaborative, interdisciplinary researchers
NIH funding rates drop to record lows
Other:
Letters Reveal Names of Wisconsin 'Fake' Dems
I Guess The Lord Don't Live In New York City
Decline and fall of the American empire
The Worst Thing About "Weinergate?" The Total Obliteration of Sexual Privacy by Ideologues Like Andrew Breitbart
Anteater Taking a Shower
A Glut of…
mikethemadbiologist | June 7, 2011Links for you. Science:
BGI releases a complete de novo E. coli O104 genome assembly and is making their detection kit protocols and synthesized primers freely available to worldwide disease control and research agencies
How many blue lobsters does it take to start a business?
Australian climate scientists face death threats, cyberbullying
Sunday Spinelessness - Flat animals and biology's age of discovery
Bulb In, Bulb Out
Other:
The Lives of Homeless Children
False Fear Of A U.S. Grain Shortage
Our Fantasy Nation?
Late Night: Hey, Kids! Let's All Point and Laugh at the Homophobe!
The…
mikethemadbiologist | June 6, 2011Links for you. Science:
Breaking the hourglass for headings that holler
It Takes a Movement
The Second Lives of Academic Posters
More MRSA, in milk: A new strain in cows and humans
Other:
The Return of Back-Alley Abortions
Idaho Woman Charged For "Unlawful Abortion," Turned In By Anti-Choice Advocate
Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme
What Do Economic Models Really Tell Us About Elections? (but see Silver, Economic Indicators, etc.)
This is why the United States is doomed: The GOP response to the jobs report: The Earth is flat and two plus two equals five
Boston Authors' Favorite Places…