Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | April 21, 2011Links for you. Science:
Truckloads of hard disks
Multi-Drug Resistant Staph in 1 in 4 Meat Samples
It Works: Taking Cars Out of Times Square Really Improved the Air
Other:
A View From the Shore - My Jewish Secret (yes, there are poor Jews, regardless of what idiot anti-Semites claim)
An Idea I Can Get Behind (Dolph Lundgren vs. Chuck Norris)
Brooks Bemoans the Lack of a Free Lunch for Representative Ryan
'Pantheist' Lincoln would be unelectable today
What It Takes To Get An Abortion In South Dakota
We're Not Greece, But We Could Be the Next U.K.
mikethemadbiologist | April 20, 2011Links for you. Science:
More on the mega lab
Bats are worth billions
What Is This Fallacy Called?
Hold Onto Your Floppy Disks, Nerdz!
Other:
BANANA REPUBLIC
The Real Housewives of Wall Street: Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?
Not Only Has He Lost My Vote
Why do some of the most capable public servants in America, people like economist Peter Orszag, keep circling back from Washington to Wall Street? One guess.
Two for Uncle Sam, One for Shareholders: The 71% NYTimes Co. Tax Rate
Robert Samuelson Underestimates…
mikethemadbiologist | April 19, 2011
Superbugs may have found their match in manuka bees
The Psychology of Architecture
Friday Crustacean Blogging
Other:
The Torture Apologists Who Corrupted America's Youth
Why must you use that word, "Profit?"
Obama's "bad negotiating" is actually shrewd negotiating
The Education Kleptocracy
Economic ideologies
Then They Came for Dana Milbank
The three Ezras
Obama Talked Progressive on Deficits, But Will He Walk Conservative?
mikethemadbiologist | April 18, 2011Happy Patriots Day! Links for you. Science:
Ion Torrent Gives Its DNA-Sequencing Box A Boost
How the War on Science Works--And How to Respond
Better Template Prep for Ion Announced
Is Sugar Toxic?
Other:
Behind the Abortion War
Stephen Colbert Cracks Himself Up Over Walgreens' Health Services
Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore?
The Republican Plan
Auto Draft
Cherishing Possessions and People
[Republican] Lindsey Graham Offers Stirring Defense of Government Spending: "Will Allow Us to Create Jobs"
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
mikethemadbiologist | April 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
Study: Fracking for natural gas more hazardous than burning coal
Watch Out For That Thagomizer!
How new DNA sequencing technologies are unravelling rare genetic diseases
Breakthrough Tools for Understanding the Microbiology of the Mouth
Other:
Our Polarized and Money-Driven Congress: Created Over 25 Years By Republicans (and Quickly Imitated by Democrats)
Why Not A Public Option for Medicare?
Is Higher Education the Next Bubble to Burst?
Teaching, the most important profession
Thoughts on Economics Education in America
CONTRACEPTIVE USE IS THE NORM AMONG RELIGIOUS…
mikethemadbiologist | April 15, 2011Going on vacation. But don't worry, the blog will keep rolling on. Science:
Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy?
Algorithm Finds the Hairy-Nosed Wombat Not Worth Saving
So you want to be a science consultant
ZOMG! SCIENCE on penicillin
Other:
And Obama Speaks
Profiles in Cowardice: How the Beltway Punditocracy Gets Paul Ryan's Plan Totally Wrong
World Health Day update: Use an antibiotic, pay a fee?
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
Cut the Deficit? Tax Budweiser! The Case For a National 'Frat Tax'
Wrong. So Wrong...
Bad Credit: How Payday Lenders Evade Regulation
The Roots of…
mikethemadbiologist | April 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
George Price, Group Selection, and Altruism
Farming on water: Stackable, sustainable, in the city
IonTorrent: Benchtop Sequencing, Streamlined
Other:
Raghuram Rajan's wrongness rankles
America is burning; Washington fiddles
Concern About Federal Deficits
War Is Paul Ryan Is a Force that gives us meaning
Accountability for "Job Creators"
I Wonder What John Yoo Thinks of All This
Want a Flat Tax? I Got a Flat Tax for You (I like this because it's simple)
All We Really Need To Do Is Nothing
How Are Ordinary People Responding to Higher Gas Prices? The Post Asks Someone…
mikethemadbiologist | April 13, 2011Gray. Rainy. Links. Science:
You can't be a fan of SF and lament the rise of ebooks
The Meaning of Mastodon Tusks
When journalists do primary research
Other:
Stop Waiting for a Savior
The Deficit Debate is Deception Drivel
Peter Orszag Can Defuse Complaints About His Giant Wall Street Payday By Giving The Money Away
Ikea's U.S. factory churns out unhappy workers
Why College Students Are Losing Their Religion (I always thought Freisdorf's explanation was widely accepted among Jews; odd that Prager thinks otherwise)
Why Progressives Keep On Losing and the Right Keeps On Winning
Civil War was…
mikethemadbiologist | April 11, 2011Links for you. Science:
Wolf Crosses the Lake Superior Ice to Become Leader of the Pack
A Field Guide to Pandemic, Epidemic and Sporadic Clones of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Physicist Takes a Look at TIMSS
A2s, the national budget crisis, and irrationality
Beyond Heritable IQ in Socioeconomic Success
Other:
What Is Really Killing Pharma (related: Friday: Anthony Nicholls amazing rant)
The impotence of the loyal partisan voter
Daniel Pennell: Thoughts on American Homeownership
China Media Express and a comment on the efficient market hypothesis
So the Deal Was Struck
Moloch…
mikethemadbiologist | April 10, 2011Still spring-like! Links for you. Science:
Rape is not an "adaptation"
Superbugs Found in New Delhi's Water and Sewage
Why 23andMe Genetic Testing Is A Waste Of Time And Money (most people just want the engine to run; they don't find the mechanisms interesting...)
Why should we care...? II. History as a way of knowing
Other:
Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster
Rational Inattention
Bristol Palin's Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention (professional conservatism has always been a con)
I know where I'd like to tighten THEIR belts!
Irritating…
mikethemadbiologist | April 9, 2011Spring has finally sprung. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Lawrence Krauss Defends a Sex Offender, Embarrasses Scientists Everywhere
Who Killed The Deep Space Climate Observatory?
Today's lesson: "Alternative" Virginia school closes after half of its students infected with pertussis. All of them were unvaccinated.
Antibiotic resistance: Bacteria are winning the war
Other:
Lapdancing research update - The Regulatory Dance
I Can't Help Myself
What are the preconditions for Hyperinflation?
Menino Bans Sugary Drink Sales On Boston City Property
Even More Ryan Ridiculousness
mikethemadbiologist | April 8, 2011First a video, then some links. Video:
Science:
A carpenter ant at home
World Health Day: Time to tackle resistance
Biodiversity Wednesday: The Green Spaces of New York (fascinating about the centipede)
What makes a great scientific talk?
What Motivates a Climate Skeptic?
Other:
Stephen Moore's ode to the American Workers his Policies Harm
Modern Monetary Theory and Mr. Paul Krugman: a way forward
How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood (of course, if the batshitloonitarians have their way, many other kids' childhoods will be ruined...)
The tragedy of Milwaukee's bus service
It is time to get…
mikethemadbiologist | April 7, 2011Links for you. Science:
The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all: I've discovered that when the facts don't suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounce
Significant (although we can correct for multiple comparisons...)
The Evolution of Prejudice
Alien-Wasp Swarms Devouring Birds, Bugs in Hawaii
Other:
Blacklisted Economics Professor Found Dead: NC Publishes His Last Letter (brilliant satire)
Get Pumped! Introducing Metropolitan Boston's Newest Museum
Monday Mustelid
A Call to Shun
Stiglitz Tells Us the Redistribution Fairy is…
mikethemadbiologist | April 6, 2011
Feds to College Students: "We don't want your professors to know how to teach"
The Claim: Dental Cavities Can Be Contagious.
A correlation between gut bacteria and obesity.
Plenty more bugs in the sea
Measurements That Mislead: From the SAT to the NFL, the problem with short-term tests
Transferable skills
Other:
In Reforming Social Security the Problem is Not How Good the Country Is, the Problem is How Good the Political System Is
I Know How Wisconsin Professor Feels as a Target of GOP Thugs
The Problem Is the News Reporting, Not Just Editorials: More From Ezra Klein on Social Security
Ohio…
mikethemadbiologist | April 5, 2011Links for you. Science:
Why is aspirin toxic to cats?
F.B.I. Seeks Help Cracking Code in Victim's Notes (of course, if it's just insane babble or doodles....)
How to Get Tenure at Almost Every Other Research University
Antimicrobial soap ingredient found to accumulate in fish
Other:
Why I'm Boycotting The Huffington Post, And I Hope You Will Too
Harry & David files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Women Under the Budget Knife
Expelling Care from the Teacher-Child Relation
Back at You, Glenn Beck
If hype were broadband, the U.S. would be No. 1
Neo-Liberalism Can't Beat the Tea Party: But MMT Can
Our…
mikethemadbiologist | April 4, 2011Links for you. Science:
Anxiety May Influence Belief in Intelligent Design
A Sense of Wonder and Awesome Slime Molds
Physics "A Waste of Time"?
Icefish: a really "cool" fish family
Other:
New model legislation would call for states to investigate all abortion clinics
The worst idea in Washington
Our Billion Dollar Turd Sandwich
Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution (this is on Forbes' website?!?)
The Real Reason Gas Prices Are Soaring
"Grassroots" Fraud Suits Corporations to a Tea
We Work Hard, but Who's Complaining?
mikethemadbiologist | April 3, 2011Links for you. Science:
Just Remember, Parsons: Elephants Never Forget (And Neither Will I)
How to Get Tenure at a Major Research University
Does evolution contradict the second law of thermodynamics? (no)
The Piglet Squid, into the abyss lives a squid with Gonzo's face!
Other:
Cleveland, Texas and Gender Jim Crow (must-read)
The Mellon Doctrine
Rick Santorum Misses the Point on Abortion and Social Security
Young People Back Labor Unions by 2-to-1 Margin (anyone know what's going on with women's strong distrust of governors?)
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
The Purpose of Harvard is Not to…
mikethemadbiologist | April 2, 2011It's actually kinda like spring outside. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Is econ a science? On its good days, yes.
Social insects raise crop yields
The heritability debate, again
Belly button biome is more than a piece of fluff
Other:
Oh c'mon, are we really talking about starving babies in 2011?
Tyler Cowen buys straddles on humanity's future
John Taylor draws a Phillips Curve
Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party (there are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers. Which are you?)
How Elite Colleges Still Aren't Diverse
Why We're Fasting
Blogging Dangerfield --…
mikethemadbiologist | April 1, 2011Links for you, and that's no April Fool's. Science:
Beauty
Watch Out Below: Wasps Battle Ants by Dropping Them
Is Bigger Really Better?
It's a pretty sweet gig, if you can stomach it (on creationist 'science')
Other:
Review of Closing the Racial Achievement Gap
Is progress in Florida schools exaggerated?
The New Media Rules
Test Gains at Michelle Rhee's Favorite School Possibly Fabricated
Liberty University one of the largest recipients of federal aid money for students
Lying and Cheating for Jesus
A Little Extortion Never Hurts the Bottom Line
Where's the love for Park Slope, right wing…
mikethemadbiologist | March 31, 2011Links for you. Science:
Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus in Childcare Worker
New paper: Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in a childcare worker
"Castrated" Spiders Are Better Fighters, Study Says
The spread of superbugs
Other:
Greg Mankiw: Budget Arsonist Screaming for a Firehose...
Journamalism in 2011: Long on hyperbolic headlines and conflation, short on actual facts
Thoughts on Libya
Eric Cantor Admits Republicans Want to Kill Social Security
Craiglist ad seeks "writers to post Right-Wing Comments to social media & news outlets"
Value Betrayal
States broke? Maybe they cut taxes…