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...againThat's the trouble with fast food: Four lions left sheepish and hungry after failing to catch antelope who legs it to safetyWhy ecologists should refight the 'null model wars'Ancient Roman Ship Had On-board Fish Tank
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Five myths about America's schoolsHow Not To Be An Asshole: A Guide For MenI Wouldn't Do Anything DifferentlyBribes Work: How Peterson, the Enemy of Social Security, Bought the Roosevelt NameThe Meat Myth: Free-Range…
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' debateIn praise of model organismsThe importance of being medianWhen is MRSA not MRSA?Ancient cave women 'left childhood homes'
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The Dismal Political Economist Interviews John Maynard Keynes Bill Black: Bad Cop; Crazed Cop - the IMF and the ECBMadison Ave. Declares 'Mass Affluence' OverNew study: You can't live on minimum wageThe Mask of Concern Slips from the Anti-Choicers Face"Cancer Patients Unable to Obtain Oncology Appointments"Why Wearing Mini-…
mikethemadbiologist | June 3, 2011Links for you. Science:
EHEC Genome AssemblyYou're also too pretty for mathHow 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
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Right to Rent Trumps Moral HazardI Write LettersRemember 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 NowTea Party reveals: 'Sustainable Development' is sinister attempt to destroy American DreamThe…
mikethemadbiologist | June 2, 2011Links for you. Science:
PNAS: Matthew Schlecht, Freelance TranslatorAds Implant False MemoriesWhy Johnny Can't Innovate: The American Economy's Most Surprising DeficitDo you use the title?
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Steven Pearlstein: Mark them tardy to the revolution (not sure I agree--education is replete with technological fixes that failed)CronocaosPaul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and the GOP are counting on the votes of old people who hate their grandchildrenThere'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 and…
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 eradicatedStinging Caterpillars of the United StatesDeadly bacteria lurk inside hospital wards
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Is this what ended the American Dream?Standing Up for the Existence of AtomsJared Bernstein Lets Slip Interesting Info About WH Economic ViewsDoctors 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 and…
mikethemadbiologist | May 31, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ancient America: HovenweepUnderwater Hawaii with Octopus Porn - A Photo DiaryA diminutive house guestDuh' science: Why researchers spend so much time proving the obvious
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The story behind the world's oldest museum, built by a Babylonian princess 2,500 years agoHouse bans funding of abortion trainingFirst 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 pilotsYou'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" PDFThe Discovery of Arsenic-Based Twitter
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Herman Cain's Enron-esque DisasterRocket Scientists, Part 2Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays TaxesThe Monster and Monterrey: The Politics and Cartels of Mexico's Drug War5 Things Nobody Tells You About Quitting Drinking
mikethemadbiologist | May 29, 2011Links for you. Science:
American archaeologists discover 17 buried pyramids in EgyptLess Active at Work, Americans Have Packed on PoundsThings NIH Program Officers probably shouldn't say to applicants
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Why aren't progressives as good at politics as conservatives?The obliviousness of our conservative dudely leadersThe 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 MattersThe Fed's secret giveaway to…
mikethemadbiologist | May 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
Why are all my children getting measles, ask Homeopathy fans (snarky)Paying a Painful 75% Secrecy TaxGroups sue FDA to stop Big Ag antibiotic abuse--and it just might workDoes NIH funding = higher prices at Massachusetts hospitals?Jennifer Gardy on genomic epidemiology of a TB outbreak (video)
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Hotels and Their Pervs, RevisitedInsects Totally Caused Ultimate FrisbeeOut, but not up: Homelessness in the age of BloombergBlogging is stupidStudy Sees Way to Win Spam FightPayback 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 turtleBiology to the masses
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The financial implications of the US measles outbreaksThe role of bank deposits in Modern Monetary TheoryThe dying of the lightPhilip 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 variation10 Important Differences Between Brains and ComputersGrant Reductions. Sigh.
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Robert Samuelson Is Too Lazy to Look Up Income Data for the ElderlyA Decent Man, SmearedTaxing the richSex, hope, and rock and rollThe miniskirt made him do it"Ask the wizard": Grandpa Simpson babbles nonsense againGOP Budget To Slash Federal Medicaid Budget By One QuarterYes, 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 ProblemDo girls steal some of their mother's beauty? Sex bias in parental investment
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Lowenstein Lets Wall Street Off the HookYale Suspends DKE House For "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" ChantsLimits to Shriver SympathyAn Inland ArchipelagoAbout 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 TigersMonkeys protect Indian government officialsSending data to the cloud? Stick it in the post
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Grifters attract grifters...Misleading advertising or something much worse?The language they can understandShould the next Commerce Secretary be part of the Koch machine?A Country Without LibrariesPublic health advocates pleased by smaller budget cutsNATION 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 TBThings do get better, sometimes
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A Thought Experiment On Spending, Monetary Expansion, Output, Employment, and GoldHow Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget Movies Into Big BucksScott Hodge of the Tax Foundation Censors HimselfSocial Security Benefits: They're Important!How Drudge "Stays On Top"? Pandering On Race, Right-Wing ParanoiaDebt Crisis? Really?And I Should Know: Roseanne Barr was a sitcom star, a creator and a product, the agitator and the abused, a domestic goddess…
mikethemadbiologist | May 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
The Loneliest Plant In The WorldEvolution is a Jewish conspiracyWhat Is Wrong With Asking Why Black Women Are Less Attractive (very good points about factor analysis)
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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 StructureLooting Greece while the Greeks RiotWhat's wrong with the media, in one paragraphA Capitol offence: homelessness in DCWhen the Levee Doesn't Break -- What's Wrong With the Media's…
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
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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 ActFarm subsidies will bring a different kind of partisanshipSchemes of the Rich…
mikethemadbiologist | May 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
We Won't Become GiantsWhich is right: 'In your face' or staid professionalism? Scientists Discover Bacterium in Mosquitoes' Gut That Destroys Malaria
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Actually, "The Rich" Don't "Create Jobs," We Do.As the door turnsFeedback: Florida's Student Success Act & Value Added Assessments - The Rick Hess InfomercialHitting the CeilingSpeculation explains more about oil prices than anything elseDestroyingEliminating 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--which is…
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
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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 journalismFree Science, One Paper at a TimeDestructive Asian longhorned beetles found near quarantine boundary; zone expanded to AuburnLet us eat (other people's) fish
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Simply The BestThe Unbearable Lightness of Being MittWorkers Inject Trees to Protect Against Dutch Elm Disease on the CommonDEAR DAVID BROOKS: AMERICANS AREN'T SOLIPSISTS -- REPUBLICANS AREWhy It's Strange That Everybody in the United States Speaks EnglishTraditional Jewish Food: A Defense. Some of us are actually okay with who we are and what we…
mikethemadbiologist | May 13, 2011We have sun! Even if only for a day. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Changes afoot at NSF's MCBAt least one of these Horseshoe Crabs is very confusedOrlando breakthrough destroys sewage, produces powerNSF, feasibility and impact
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"Mediscare" And The Conventional WisdomAncient Egypt: The First PyramidProgressive media, labor unions, and BoeingGoodbye Forever! Also: No More War, PleaseThe History of "LIFO"It's Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the TelecomsCruel and Unusual BudgetObi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says