Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | May 12, 2011Links fahr ya. Science:
On the "Hot Hand" in Basketball
"There's no crying in baseball" . . . the status quo of Ph.D. programs?
Farm antibiotics: "Pig staph" in a daycare worker
GOP Assault on Truth: Why Do Conservatives Pretend They Know More About Science Than Scientists?
Other:
But For One Misplaced Decade
What Alan Simpson doesn't know about life expectancy and Social Security
In Washington, You Don't Need To Know Anything About Policy To Be a Senator Or Chair Important Commissions
Circumcision ban a step closer to the ballot (the comments are priceless)
With 56% of American Internet…
mikethemadbiologist | May 11, 2011
Unnatural selection: Wily weeds outwit herbicides
The Lazarus File
First look at Ion Torrent data: De novo assembly
Ion Torrent's Data Quality Is Pretty Good (and Better Than Ion Claims)
Other:
Punished for Poll on New Mother
Paper Tigers: What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?
Taxes and work
"I Totally Lost the Picture. I'm Like, 'Oh S***.'"
Graduate Education: Economic Voodoo with Silver Lining?
South Dakota Banning Abortion Without Banning Abortion?
Norway's controversial 'cushy prison' experiment - could it catch on in the UK?
What is Inflation
mikethemadbiologist | May 10, 2011Happy Tuesday! Links for you. Science:
Why we keep calling Osama "Obama": Linguists and speech pathologists explain why we constantly make this mistake -- but not the other way around
Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad (Doesn't have to be an iPad, but the point is interesting; full disclosure: I own a significant amount of Apple stock)
Texas must stay true to science
Other:
The evidence that torture "works" (the must-read post)
Late Night: The Clever Supervillians Get Bailouts
Monbiot on the left
Breaking: Bear Suspected of Depositing Feces in Forest
If you've read this far, mention…
mikethemadbiologist | May 9, 2011Links for you. Science:
What's the difference ? Two recessions.
FDA Clears First Test To Quickly Distinguish MRSA And MSSA
Amphibian alert
Other:
Evaluating Mitch Daniels' Education Agenda
Former Military Interrogator Matthew Alexander: Despite GOP Claims, "Immoral" Torture "Slowed Down" Effort to Find Osama bin Laden
Peter Thiel and the Challenging of the Meritocracy
Besieged, Not Fallen: Questions on Pakistan's intent to fight terror and fulfil its international obligations are legitimate, but they assume a State in complete control. It is not
Appealing To The "Center" Drives Away Voters
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mikethemadbiologist | May 8, 2011Links for you. Science:
Is This the Big One? The Flood That Makes New Orleans A Backwater?
What Autism Epidemic?
Other:
Homeless, but Finding Sanctuary at School
Our Strange Dance with Pakistan
Do Red State Republicans Want More Divorces, STDs and Abortions? Their Policies Suggest "Yes"
Mayors Rebel Against State-Controlled Highway Expansion, Fight For Transit
Would Wisconsin Republicans Really Cheat To Hold Onto Power?
Torture is wrong
Imagine If the Unemployed Helped Run the Fed
House GOP unanimously passes anti-abortion bill that redefines rape & institutes IRS rape audits
mikethemadbiologist | May 7, 2011Links for you. Science:
How deep is deep enough in RNA-Seq?
Ph.D. survival: is a jack of all trades a master of none?
Evidence, herd immunity, and 'total assholes'
Happy Robigalia! Applying genomic tools to thwart an ancient pest
Other:
Fears and Failure
Heroic Registers of Deeds Battling Mortgage Fraud
10 Bits of Norse Myth You Probably Won't See in Thor
Black Privilege
The balsa wood glider equivalent of private health insurance
Fukushima: the disaster that wasn't
Two months on
Is birtherism driven by race?
mikethemadbiologist | May 6, 2011Links for you. Science:
CVs vs. resumes: when it matters
Wrestling with Recurrent Infections: Clostridium difficile is evolving more robust toxicity, repeatedly attacking its victims, and driving the search for alternative therapies to fight the infection.
8 percent of women physical oceanographers in tenure track, down from 23 percent
New Economics and Academic Medicine
A Case of Stolen Professional Identity
Other:
GRAPH: Income Inequality In U.S. Worse Than Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Ethiopia
Giving People Information Changes Behavior
War Dog
mikethemadbiologist | May 5, 2011Links for you. Science:
How Sugar Affects the Body in Motion
Why the Harper Majority is a Step Back for Science - Let Us Count the Ways
Wheat stem fungus genome deciphered
Vaccine safety talks can burn up valuable checkup time. Half of doctors spend nearly 20 minutes discussing concerns with some parents, despite studies rejecting links between autism and immunization.
Other:
Imagine If the Unemployed Helped Run the Fed
"I don't have a T.V." isn't such a signal anymore.... (I haven't had a TV hooked up to cable since 2005. Hipster!)
"I'm From New York."
Mythbusting Princess Leia's Hair
What…
mikethemadbiologist | May 4, 2011Links for you. Science:
How not to measure scientific productivity
Restructuring the Biomedical Research Laboratory (probably will have more to say about this; I told you NIH had to move in the research center direction)
Turning grief into action: Moms and antibiotic misuse
From 250 million years of repression, a wonderland of hats
What Is Wrong With Academia?
Other:
Unemployment (funny, in a sick way)
Now that we've killed Osama bin Laden, let's kill oil
SUBSTITUTE GOODS
The Philadelphia Orchestra's Unfortunate Bankruptcy Filing (never let anyone from corporate U.S. run anything. Ever).…
mikethemadbiologist | May 3, 2011If U.S. Special Forces could only do something about Donald Trump's hair. In the meantime, we have links. Science:
How do you ID a dead Osama anyway?
Another Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish
"Motivated reasoning," alternative medicine, and the anti-vaccine movement
Putting the science in science fiction
Other:
Is Cursive Dead? Not on your life.
A Double Dip Recession May Be Inevitable
The Economy Slows ("It has long been clear that economists do not see the world the way people experience it." Indeed)
Of Federal Research Grants and Dancing Bears
What's next?
IF CANTOR REALLY WANTS…
mikethemadbiologist | May 2, 2011Bin Laden's dead. Still other things worth linking to though. Science:
Hiding the doomsday device: camouflage and venom in stonefish
Acculturating students to science
Falsehood: "If this was the Stone Age, I'd be dead by now"
Other:
Earth to Libertarians: Private Parties Have Coercive Power Too
Richard Davey's Anti-Family Proposal
How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
Mayors To Washington: Stop Fooling Around, Help Us Create Jobs
Dense, Denser, Densest
The Global Economy's Corporate Crime Wave
Walras' Law vs Monetary Disequilibrium Theory
mikethemadbiologist | May 1, 2011Links for you. Science:
Big, really big
The math of social networks
Other:
The Bitter Tea of Greg Mortenson
LIVIN' THE DREAM
Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris
"Millions Set to Lose Unemployment Benefits"
Who Benefits From Bubbles?
Town Hall Meetings on the Ryan Budget Raise Concerns
There Are No Silver-Bullets in Education Reform
The Destruction of Economic Facts
City school's fast-rising test scores questioned
Pram Jam! MBTA rolls out rules for stroller traffic
Backpack boogie
mikethemadbiologist | April 30, 2011Links for you. Science:
More deconstruction of the "tyranny" of excessive reviewer demands for more experiments
Armadillos Can Transmit Leprosy to Humans, Federal Researchers Confirm
Other:
Female physicians make less money than male doctors, here's why (truly, no good deed goes unpunished)
Health reform will drive up ER visits, like it did in Massachusetts (Romneycare beats no care, but it still sucks)
Policy in an age of post-truth politics (while I don't buy the notion that we're in some 'new era', the political strategy is dead on target)
A Book Store. That's Right. Book, Singular.
The…
mikethemadbiologist | April 29, 2011Gave a talk today. Think it went well. Celebrating with links! Science:
Sciparenting and expectations
Fire ants assemble into living waterproof rafts
Ancient DNA: Curse of the Pharaoh's DNA
Other:
Ohio Republicans unhappy Republicans did what Republicans do
Don't leave the city. (Sadly, I think the author will be right)
Boomarang-rang
It's A Tradition
Deportation Halted for Some Students as Lawmakers Seek New Policy (sometimes we manage to stop sucking)
Risk Springs Eternal
Canada's Health Care: An Alternate Universe
The Special Doctor-Patient Relationship
mikethemadbiologist | April 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
Electronic faucets hinder, not help, hospital infection control
Genetics journal reveals dark past
Tuesday Crustie: What a happy lad since the day he lost his strings
Drama on the sidewalk
Other:
Taxing China's Assets: How to Increase U.S. Employment Without Launching a Trade War (must-read)
Dodging Bad CEOs
The Republicans' Really Thin Gruel
Braun: Expert with ties to N.J. says if pensions aren't protected, nation will suffer
Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo
WikiLeaks: The Uses of Guantánamo
There is no Democratic Jesus
Benjamin Wallace…
mikethemadbiologist | April 27, 2011It feels like spring. It is spring! Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Great editorial response to the Jumbotron ad (responding to anti-vaxxers)
Climate Policy Failure, and Laying Blame
Is Reasoning Built for Winning Arguments, Rather Than Finding Truth?
The @nytimes missed a great chance to suggest what astronauts can do as NASA changes: go deep, into the ocean that is (great idea)
Other:
Inside the GOP's Fact-Free Nation
"Only 2%": Contraceptive use rampant among Catholic women, according to report critical of bishops (the comments are priceless, not in a good way)
Washington…
mikethemadbiologist | April 26, 2011Links for you. Science:
Atta texana
Bacteria Divide People Into 3 Types, Scientists Say
John Gillespie, "the evil scientist from America"
Could You Be the Worst Labmate in the World?
Other:
The Anniversary
How Donald Trump's ego killed a pro sports league
How You Can Have a Billion-Dollar Income in America and Pay No Taxes
Nervous Nellies: Girls don't start out more anxious than boys, but they usually end up that way.
Climategate: What Really Happened?
What's Good Enough for GE Is Good Enough for the United States
Best Way to Raise Campaign Money? Investigate Banks
mikethemadbiologist | April 25, 2011Last day of vacation. Links for you. Science:
Vaccine Denialism Finds a Home on Left and Right
False Balance in Matthew Nisbet's Climate Shift Report
Guest Post: It's Not Just Alternative Energy Versus Fossil Fuels or Nuclear - Energy Has to Become DECENTRALIZED
Some people deserve bad reputations. (on Andrew Wakefield)
Scientific misconduct starts early
Other:
It Wasn't That Long Ago
The Dirty Hippies Were Right
Really Unpopular Complicated Expensive Technological Solutions For A Nonexistent Problem
Only Little People Pay Taxes
Mirabile Dictu! Economists Agree All the Fed Has Done is…
mikethemadbiologist | April 24, 2011Links for you. Science:
Six Questions About CRISPRs
Bottom feeders: A novel way of dealing with an unpleasant problem
Humpback Whales May Be Migratory Astronomers
A Peculiar Disclaimer
Other:
Suddenly It's Real (on gas prices)
Alcohol and Rape: Twice the Standards
Another Occasional Reminder (about 'Grand Bargains')
Abolish The Debt Ceiling!
Cheap Beer, Paradoxical Dice, and the Unfounded Morality of Economists
New Propaganda Coinage: "To Klein"
Discredited
Sleepwalking Into the Imperial Dark
mikethemadbiologist | April 22, 2011Links for you. Science:
Researchers argue 'addiction' a poor way to understand the normal use of drugs
Why Do Leafcutter Bees Cut Leafs?
Moth Mutation Explains Classic Example of Evolution
Other:
Grifters will always find each other...
Doug Smith: A Stiletto In The Back Of Sane Housing Markets
Santorum Borrows Liberal Slogan
Mr. President! We Must Not Allow a Gemeinschaft Gap!* (David Brooks Agonistes.)
Keep Your Thumbs Still When I'm Talking to You
How does oil speculation raise gas prices?
Honor System
MAGICAL PONIES SHITTING GLITTER