Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | June 5, 2011Links for you. Science:
Bacterial ROS to the malaria rescue!
The bride of the son of the revenge of cell phones and cancer rises from the grave...again
That's the trouble with fast food: Four lions left sheepish and hungry after failing to catch antelope who legs it to safety
Why ecologists should refight the 'null model wars'
Ancient Roman Ship Had On-board Fish Tank
Other:
Five myths about America's schools
How Not To Be An Asshole: A Guide For Men
I Wouldn't Do Anything Differently
Bribes Work: How Peterson, the Enemy of Social Security, Bought the Roosevelt Name
The Meat Myth: Free…
mikethemadbiologist | June 4, 2011I heard there's some kinda E. coli outbreak. Anyway, links for you. Science:
My contribution to the 'HUSEC41-strains-are-not-that-new' debate
In praise of model organisms
The importance of being median
When is MRSA not MRSA?
Ancient cave women 'left childhood homes'
Other:
The Dismal Political Economist Interviews John Maynard Keynes
Bill Black: Bad Cop; Crazed Cop - the IMF and the ECB
Madison Ave. Declares 'Mass Affluence' Over
New study: You can't live on minimum wage
The Mask of Concern Slips from the Anti-Choicers Face
"Cancer Patients Unable to Obtain Oncology Appointments"
Why…
mikethemadbiologist | June 3, 2011Links for you. Science:
EHEC Genome Assembly
You're also too pretty for math
How many reminders does it take to get to the center of a PI's brain?
MRSA in meat: How much? Which? And more bad news.
The Antarctic island that's richer in biodiversity than the Galapagos
Other:
Right to Rent Trumps Moral Hazard
I Write Letters
Remember when journalists used to write hard-hitting investigative pieces, rather than fawning over the powerful?
Did Chris Christie just doom U.S. climate policy?
A Billion Prices Now
Tea Party reveals: 'Sustainable Development' is sinister attempt to destroy American…
mikethemadbiologist | June 2, 2011Links for you. Science:
PNAS: Matthew Schlecht, Freelance Translator
Ads Implant False Memories
Why Johnny Can't Innovate: The American Economy's Most Surprising Deficit
Do you use the title?
Other:
Steven Pearlstein: Mark them tardy to the revolution (not sure I agree--education is replete with technological fixes that failed)
Cronocaos
Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and the GOP are counting on the votes of old people who hate their grandchildren
There's a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Deal With a Jobs Crisis -- Why Is Germany Doing It So Well?
I'm So Glad We Elected a Democrat, Part One Billion…
mikethemadbiologist | June 1, 2011Links for you. Science:
Does Lack of Income Take Away the Brain's Horses?
Rinderpest, or 'cattle plague,' becomes only second disease to be eradicated
Stinging Caterpillars of the United States
Deadly bacteria lurk inside hospital wards
Other:
Is this what ended the American Dream?
Standing Up for the Existence of Atoms
Jared Bernstein Lets Slip Interesting Info About WH Economic Views
Doctors should share in the sacrifice (not sure I agree, but replace "doctor" with "teacher" becomes a very interesting exercise)
Stephanie Kelton: What Happens When the Government Tightens its Belt?
Doctors…
mikethemadbiologist | May 31, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ancient America: Hovenweep
Underwater Hawaii with Octopus Porn - A Photo Diary
A diminutive house guest
Duh' science: Why researchers spend so much time proving the obvious
Other:
The story behind the world's oldest museum, built by a Babylonian princess 2,500 years ago
House bans funding of abortion training
First Do No Harm: Last year there wasn't a single fatal airline accident in the developed world. So why is the U.S. health care system still accidently killing hundreds of thousands? The answer is a lack of transparency.
Abortion needs to be taught in our medical…
mikethemadbiologist | May 30, 2011Links for you. Science:
The hot hand in airline pilots
You're too [pretty/young/female, take your pick] to be a microbiologist!
Does Lack of Income Take Away the Brain's Horses?
"Phylogeny for the faint of heart" PDF
The Discovery of Arsenic-Based Twitter
Other:
Herman Cain's Enron-esque Disaster
Rocket Scientists, Part 2
Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes
The Monster and Monterrey: The Politics and Cartels of Mexico's Drug War
5 Things Nobody Tells You About Quitting Drinking
mikethemadbiologist | May 29, 2011Links for you. Science:
American archaeologists discover 17 buried pyramids in Egypt
Less Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on Pounds
Things NIH Program Officers probably shouldn't say to applicants
Other:
Why aren't progressives as good at politics as conservatives?
The obliviousness of our conservative dudely leaders
The Economic Outlook as of May 2011: Yes, This Is Called the Dismal Science. Why Do You Ask?
Behold the failed prophets (if there is one sure thing in life, it's that predictions of Social Security's doom are always ridiculous)
Why Gingrich Matters
The Fed's secret…
mikethemadbiologist | May 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
Why are all my children getting measles, ask Homeopathy fans (snarky)
Paying a Painful 75% Secrecy Tax
Groups sue FDA to stop Big Ag antibiotic abuse--and it just might work
Does NIH funding = higher prices at Massachusetts hospitals?
Jennifer Gardy on genomic epidemiology of a TB outbreak (video)
Other:
Hotels and Their Pervs, Revisited
Insects Totally Caused Ultimate Frisbee
Out, but not up: Homelessness in the age of Bloomberg
Blogging is stupid
Study Sees Way to Win Spam Fight
Payback to Patrick McHenry from Friends of Elizabeth Warren
mikethemadbiologist | May 27, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ignorance is bliss (sometimes)
Giant water bug photographed devouring baby turtle
Biology to the masses
Other:
The financial implications of the US measles outbreaks
The role of bank deposits in Modern Monetary Theory
The dying of the light
Philip Pilkington: Beyond growth - are we entering a new phase of economic maturity?
mikethemadbiologist | May 26, 2011I'm back! And that means links. Science:
A map of charismatic canid genomic variation
10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
Grant Reductions. Sigh.
Other:
Robert Samuelson Is Too Lazy to Look Up Income Data for the Elderly
A Decent Man, Smeared
Taxing the rich
Sex, hope, and rock and roll
The miniskirt made him do it
"Ask the wizard": Grandpa Simpson babbles nonsense again
GOP Budget To Slash Federal Medicaid Budget By One Quarter
Yes, Newt Gingrich Wanted Medicare To Wither On The Vine
mikethemadbiologist | May 22, 2011Links for you. Science:
Voracious Feral Camels Are the New Cane Toads (Which Are the New Rabbits...)
Filtering Isn't the Problem
Do girls steal some of their mother's beauty? Sex bias in parental investment
Other:
Lowenstein Lets Wall Street Off the Hook
Yale Suspends DKE House For "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" Chants
Limits to Shriver Sympathy
An Inland Archipelago
About That Google-Smearing Facebook Flack's Ethics Degree
mikethemadbiologist | May 21, 2011Hopefully, I'm somewhere in New Orleans, and reasonably sober. Links for you. Science:
How KFC and the Tea Party Kill Tigers
Monkeys protect Indian government officials
Sending data to the cloud? Stick it in the post
Other:
Grifters attract grifters...
Misleading advertising or something much worse?
The language they can understand
Should the next Commerce Secretary be part of the Koch machine?
A Country Without Libraries
Public health advocates pleased by smaller budget cuts
NATION PAYS STEEP PRICE FOR HIGH RATES OF UNINTENDED PREGNANCY
If Bachmann Can Run (and Vote)...
mikethemadbiologist | May 20, 2011Links for you. Science:
Hey, where did all the women go?
New study dramatically cuts treatment for latent TB
Things do get better, sometimes
Other:
A Thought Experiment On Spending, Monetary Expansion, Output, Employment, and Gold
How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget Movies Into Big Bucks
Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation Censors Himself
Social Security Benefits: They're Important!
How Drudge "Stays On Top"? Pandering On Race, Right-Wing Paranoia
Debt Crisis? Really?
And I Should Know: Roseanne Barr was a sitcom star, a creator and a product, the agitator and the abused, a domestic…
mikethemadbiologist | May 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
The Loneliest Plant In The World
Evolution is a Jewish conspiracy
What Is Wrong With Asking Why Black Women Are Less Attractive (very good points about factor analysis)
Other:
The NYT Doesn't Understand Marginal Tax Rates (we've been through this before; anyone whom this affects and who doesn't understand it should pay a stupidity tax)
Metropol Parasol // The World's Largest Wooden Structure
Looting Greece while the Greeks Riot
What's wrong with the media, in one paragraph
A Capitol offence: homelessness in DC
When the Levee Doesn't Break -- What's Wrong With the…
mikethemadbiologist | May 18, 2011Links for you. Science:
Is Nathan Myhrovld's Intellectual Ventures behind the iOS in-app purchase patent troll job?
What Does it Mean to be "Museum-Worthy?" How a Political History Curator Defines the Term (will have to ask biology/paleontology curators same thing)
The evolutionary tree of fungi grows a new branch
Other:
Marshall Auerback: Revenue Sharing for the States - How It Works, Why We Need It and Why Nixon Liked It!
It's all my fault...
Sen. John Kerry Introduces Reconnecting Youth To Prevent Homelessness Act
Farm subsidies will bring a different kind of partisanship
Schemes of the…
mikethemadbiologist | May 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
We Won't Become Giants
Which is right: 'In your face' or staid professionalism?
Scientists Discover Bacterium in Mosquitoes' Gut That Destroys Malaria
Other:
Actually, "The Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do.
As the door turns
Feedback: Florida's Student Success Act & Value Added Assessments - The Rick Hess Infomercial
Hitting the Ceiling
Speculation explains more about oil prices than anything else
DestroyingEliminating Public EducationSchooling As We Know It [Today] (if you're like me, you just solve the problem by granting them the legitimacy they've earned--…
mikethemadbiologist | May 15, 2011I'm old enough to remember when there was sun in the sky. Anyway, links for you. Science:
Can we overfish the lionfish?
Simpler Genome Sequencing (I'll believe it when I see it--nanopore technology is like Zeno's paradox, the spear never hits the wall)
Hospital-Acquired Infections: Beating Back the Bugs
Other:
All Hail the PUBLIC Library: The public library is a uniquely American creation. Now we have to fight to keep it public... (must-read)
Death to high school English. My college students don't understand commas, far less how to write an essay. Is it time to rethink how we teach?
Why…
mikethemadbiologist | May 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
How Nature's lawyers drown investigative science journalism
Free Science, One Paper at a Time
Destructive Asian longhorned beetles found near quarantine boundary; zone expanded to Auburn
Let us eat (other people's) fish
Other:
Simply The Best
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mitt
Workers Inject Trees to Protect Against Dutch Elm Disease on the Common
DEAR DAVID BROOKS: AMERICANS AREN'T SOLIPSISTS -- REPUBLICANS ARE
Why It's Strange That Everybody in the United States Speaks English
Traditional Jewish Food: A Defense. Some of us are actually okay with who we are and…
mikethemadbiologist | May 13, 2011We have sun! Even if only for a day. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Changes afoot at NSF's MCB
At least one of these Horseshoe Crabs is very confused
Orlando breakthrough destroys sewage, produces power
NSF, feasibility and impact
Other:
"Mediscare" And The Conventional Wisdom
Ancient Egypt: The First Pyramid
Progressive media, labor unions, and Boeing
Goodbye Forever! Also: No More War, Please
The History of "LIFO"
It's Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms
Cruel and Unusual Budget
Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says