Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | March 30, 2011Merry Wednesday! Links for you. Science:
The Real Reason Women Quit Engineering
Antarctic lake hints at a world of virus-attacking viruses
The flat and the fit
Other:
A reason to cheat
Beyond Erase to the Top: The Myth of Michelle Rhee Continues
Illustrating How Infrastructure Deals Result in High Fees and Diminished Service
Conservative Think Tank Seeks Michigan Profs' Emails About Wisconsin Union Battle ... And Maddow
Confessions of a Black Gentrifier
Does the Highway Patrol Keep Us Safe?
The Broken Mousetrap Board Game of Growth Through Austerity Deficit Reduction
WHAT DOES IT MEAN (on…
mikethemadbiologist | March 29, 2011Links for you. Science:
The High Water Mark of American Science
Ancient America: The Mammoth Hunters
A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students
Other:
Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom
Public Pensions and Arithmetic Problems at Fox on 15th (a.k.a. The Washington Post)
Krugman Is Wrong: The United States Could Not End Up Like Greece
Paul Takes Another Swipe at MMT
Paul Krugman gets it wrong.... Again.
Hathaway conquers sage and screen
What's really driving the GOP's abortion war
mikethemadbiologist | March 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
We need to work together to save the Statistical Abstract of the United States
China pig crisis: Drug residues in pork
Elizabeth Taylor: Beautiful Mutant
Other:
The trouble with fund management
Nonprofits Must Stand Up and Fight for Themselves, or Perish
It's Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know
How Wall Street Crooks Get Out of Jail Free
The Innocence of the Liberal Hawk
A Dream Still Deferred
The editorial search engine
At Least Five Babies Have Died Since Nebraska Denied Undocumented Mothers Prenatal Care
mikethemadbiologist | March 27, 2011Links for you. Science:
Big dust-up about kin selection
Writing Popular Science Books Doesn't Make You a Scientist
Why are these trees completely wrapped in spider webs?
Other:
Humanitarians of the Year
The Gang That Couldn't Lobby Straight
Bachman For President (the Tea Party is the theopolitical right)
How Not to Respond to Political Bullies: Lessons from the Smithsonian's Response to the Manufactured Right-Wing Controversy Over Hide/Seek
Not Good (why cuts made in future payouts don't reduce deficits. If you care about that sort of thing)
'Scuze me while I wave the bloody shirt...
The…
mikethemadbiologist | March 26, 2011Links for you. Science:
Congress and Science Education: Wolf Berates NSF on Overdue Report
Inclusive Fitness: Return to the Wrestling Ring
Researchers Challenge E. O. Wilson Over Evolutionary Theory
Robert Trivers and colleagues on Nowak, Tarnita, and Wilson's "The evolution of eusociality"
Re: Homophobia and Evolutionary Psychology
Other:
Turkeys at Longwood Medical Area and Harvard Medical School. (AAAIIEE!!!)
Gassy (as I've been saying, reducing energy use really involves changing how people live. Not easy to do)
CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program
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mikethemadbiologist | March 25, 2011Happy Friday! Links for you. Science:
We need to work together to save the Statistical Abstract of the United States
At odds with disease risk estimates
The other weaver ants
Unauthorized medicine: Leave important clinical testing to the professionals
Other:
What the Baby Joseph cases tells us about the anti-choice movement
Nobodies of Macroeconomics (Very Wonkish)
The God That Sucked
Bingaman tells the truth about gas prices, is lonely in doing so
America: You keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means.
It's School Admissions Season in New York City. Does your 18…
mikethemadbiologist | March 24, 2011Links for you. Science:
Study finds reports of domestic violence rise 10 percent after NFL upsets: NIH researchers suggest unexpected disappointment may underlie loss of control and violent behavior
A Guide to Smarter, Safer Antibiotic Use
Rat Race
Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power
Other:
The Painless Way to Reduce the Deficit
How to Write A Clichéd Love Song, With The Axis of Awesome
After creationists got stickers in textbooks, so did the existentialists...
Snobbery and unions in academia
Glenn Greenwald: How the US Government Strikes Fear in Its Own Citizens and…
mikethemadbiologist | March 23, 2011More, um, snow expected. Sigh. Links for you. Science:
Virophage, the virus eater (this is really cool)
On Baby Harp Seals, Coal Plants and Nuclear Power
Let's do the numbers. Again. (every three Tomahaw cruise missiles equal two NIH R01 grants)
Bacterial Burglary
Other:
It's not structural unemployment, it's the corporate saving glut (must-read; yes, accounts must balance...)
Japan disaster shows U.S. journalists unprepared
Just a Bad, Bad Idea
Shaping State Laws With Little Scrutiny
Japan: The Post-WW2 Rise, the 1980s Peak, and the Decline - A Simple Theory
Why Teachers Like Me…
mikethemadbiologist | March 22, 2011Links for you. Science:
Geographic variation in human penis size
Ignorance of the way review goes down is a dereliction of duty, NIH.
Out of options: A surprising culprit in the nuclear crisis
Other:
How Bill Gates misinterprets ed facts
Miss Grundy Was Fired Today. Once deified, now demonized, teachers are under assault from union-busting Republicans on the right and wealthy liberals on the left. And leading the charge from all directions is a woman most famous for losing her job: the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. (far too kind to Rhee, but worth the read…
mikethemadbiologist | March 21, 2011It's...snowing. Links for you. Science:
The Lionfish Is Delicious. And it needs to die.
Glimpses of the Fourth Domain?
Charting the Human Cost of Different Types of Energy
Other:
On Political Talk Shows, Liberals Can't Finish Their--
Beyond Austerity
The NYT Gives Voice to the Educated Ignorant Young
Does the pharmaceutical industry exaggerate their R&D costs?
Pinching has cut 1,050 city jobs
Death By a Single GOP Cut? The scary consequences of slashing the CDC's immunization funding
Anti-Gay State Senator's Secret Gay Life Is Revealed In Bribery Indictment (I don't care how cynical you…
mikethemadbiologist | March 20, 2011There's a big parade today. But if you're not going, then here are some links for you. Science:
Genome Assembly Information
Herds on the Street: Why messaging traders are like scared fish
Shark Cleaning Stations Identified
Felisa Wolfe-Simon (of arsenic infamy) is no more convincing in person than in print
The story behind the story of my new #PLoSOne paper on "Stalking the fourth domain of life"
Other:
Book Squad 911: When your library's underwater, who you gonna call?
Report from Central Falls, RI: How Do You Change a School's "Culture?"
Why Do We Hate Rebecca Black?
Grant Hill on the Fab…
mikethemadbiologist | March 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
The Electric Taxi Company You Could Have Called in 1900
Glimpses of the Fourth Domain?
Natural-Born Homophobes?
Other:
Tripped Up At The Finish Line: The Perils Of Unemployment After 50
San Francisco to Start Smart Parking Management Trial Soon
Annual Mis-Reporting on Graduation Rates
Times paywall (this is the smartest solution to making online journalism profitable)
Red light camera nabs drivers for blocking crosswalk, rolling right on red
The Ethics of The Quote
mikethemadbiologist | March 18, 2011Woozy is the city of Boston recovering from St. Patrick's Day. Links for you. Science:
Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore's law apply to solar cells?
Why are there no (or almost no) disease-causing Archaea?
For Whom the Cell Mutates: The Origins of Genetic Quirks
Hog Farmers Overuse Antibiotics, Government Data Show
Gobsmacked by germ theory denialism. Again.
Send in the clowns (gotta love homeopaths)
Other:
GOP not doing a good job of hiding agenda on Head Start program
Death of the Anti-Gonzo
The F-35: A Weapon That Costs More Than Australia
NFL lockout: Owners get the keys to stadiums…
mikethemadbiologist | March 17, 2011Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day with...links? Science:
No Face, but Plants Like Life Too (if plants had vocal chords, they would be SCREAMING)
Ocean Acidification
Alien vs. Predator: Biocontrol Edition
Older female elephants are wiser matriarchs
Other:
Tax Haven USA attracts over $3 trillion in foreign dirty money (my guess is that much of it isn't tax avoidance, but illegally acquired-gains)
How House GOP spending cuts would add up to more spending later
Those Bastards Stole My Meth! (about many conservatives sudden horror at the movement they helped spawn)
Whistling Past the Ruins: The "…
mikethemadbiologist | March 16, 2011Lots of thermonukular links! Science:
Nuclear Overreactors
Nuclear energy 101: Inside the "black box" of power plants
Sleep is More Important than Food
DTC, FDA, regulation, etc. (I don't agree, but different point of view)
Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
Other:
Burning down your house to generate heat (must-read)
Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand
Eventually Everyone Who Disagrees with Them is the Enemy
How the US Press Corps Lost Its Way
Closing the Talent Gap. (about teacher pay)
Justifying Progressive Tax Rates (the first paragraph will make you snicker)
mikethemadbiologist | March 15, 2011Links for you. Science:
Are Grad Students Smart?
Taxonomy: The naming crisis
Are antibiotics making our kids fat?
Wind Power Without the Blades: Big Pics
Arsenic life, four months later: pay no attention to the internet
Other:
James O'Keefe and Journalistic Malpractice
A child couldn't paint that - can people tell abstract art from a child's or chimp's work?
The record needs breaking very soon! (about budget deficits)
Due to his emotional blockage, David Brooks can't tell the truth
Dropping Rocks: Los Angeles
The Fukushima legacy
mikethemadbiologist | March 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
Everybody Thinks Scientifically
Publication Strategy...If I can't beat 'em, I'll wait 'em out...
Can libraries survive in a digital world?
Arsenic Author Dumps Peer Review, Takes Case to TED (but bloggers suck. Or something)
Other:
Fareed Zakaria Is Upset Because the Government Spends So Much More on Each Rich Person Than on Each Child
Team Sex Is Dirty and their false assumptions
If you don't already hate investment bankers
The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else
Real medicine
Five Social Security Non-Myths
Straight talk from a Green Line attendant (this is awesome)
Greed…
mikethemadbiologist | March 13, 2011I like springing forward in the long run, but hate the day we do it. Oh well. Links for you. Science:
Drug-resistant bacteria: To humans from farms via food
Teaching Ambiguity and the Scientific Method
Budget cuts at the NIH: Department of nose-cutting, face-spiting (for a layman, gets most of the NIH grant stuff right)
How I got to know thunder thighs, the dinosaur with a fearsome kick
Other:
The New York City Bike Lane Backlash is Completely Irrational
As history unfolds in Wisconsin, Smithsonian sends curator
Why I Had an Abortion
M.I.T. Economist David Autor Shows Soaring Demand for…
mikethemadbiologist | March 12, 2011Sunny. Kinda warm. Seems like a good reason for links. Science:
Small Beetles Massacre The Rockies' Whitebark Pines
Why the grass is always greener once you hit grad school
Nuclear Reactors
A More Ancient World: Bird Evolution for Birders Part II (WARNING! Super long and photo rich)
Other:
Some Thoughts On The Expanding Service Industry: Nickel and Dimed, Decent Jobs, Pity-Charity Liberalism.
Did the Singularity Already Happen?
Who reaps the rewards of productivity? A 10% increase in productivity since 2008 is enough to cancel concerns about the deficit. But who gains is the crucial…
mikethemadbiologist | March 11, 2011Links for you. Science:
Corner piece
Palm Oil Plantations Equal Deforestation
Elephants give each other a helping trunk
What Killed Europe's Hyenas?
High (school) honors
Other:
Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America' (Good for Klein. I'm so sick of this self-righteous heartland bullshit)
Ross Douthat sells sex and young people way too short
Dogg Days
Our Serious Intellectuals
We're doomed!
Responsible Retirement
Late Night: Rich People are Oppressed