Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | February 16, 2011I am linkbot, hear me roar. Links for you. Science:
Views of an Unfunded Established Professor
Egyptian science community celebrates a free Egypt
UA Experts Determine Age of Book 'Nobody Can Read'
Cell Phone Towers To Be Replaced By Tiny Antennas
Other:
The Trouble With Foul Trouble (Syracuse-Georgetown)
Social Security and Pie!
My Governor, as usual, Fails Math
"Taliban Dan's" Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard's Authoritarian Subculture (this is the theopolitical right with which we are supposed to be civil and compromise)
Is This Beijing's Suburban Future? (meanwhile, in the wealthiest metro…
mikethemadbiologist | February 15, 201154F yesterday, 25F today. Oh well, we still have links. Science
Q&A: The insidious -- and incestuous -- risks of genetic testing
How to Photograph Army Ants
Why havent we cured cancer yeeeeeet?
Friday Sprog Blogging: science fair experimental design.
What would you do with $500 million? (interesting post about research in New Zealand)
Other:
Deficit Hawks Down: The Misconstrued "Facts" Behind Their Hype
Michelle Rhee, first-year teacher
LOW HANGING. AND DIMINUTIVE. (about Republican budget cuts)
NPF: THE LAND OF SMILING MILKMEN (the 1950s must have involved some serious drug use...)
The…
mikethemadbiologist | February 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
Fear and Its Consequences: Why States Should Get Tough with Vaccinations
If you love nature, move to the city
New antibiotics: Not many and fewer all the time
Researchers are punks: The fields of science and punk rock share some surprising similarities, according to the people who love both (I'm more of an old-school ska/rockabilly guy myself)
Other:
No Pension, No Chance
It's Not Personal
Buried by Bad Mortgages
Discover The Network Out To Crush Our Public Workers
Americans love government spending -- when you start to talk specifics
World's Only Superpower Has 32…
mikethemadbiologist | February 13, 2011Links for you. Science:
Women "computers" of World War II (great post, but no reason to put computers in quotes--at the time, computing was a full-time job)
Opposing industrial-scale pig farming -- in Europe
One database to hold them all
Anglerfish: Lophius piscatorius
Ravens stressed by 'gang life'
Other:
New Video Shows Planned Parenthood Employees Doing Their Job
Adbusters: The left built Huffington, and we can tear it down too
Speculation is the main driver behind higher world food prices - the evidence is there in the data
The Wrong Crisis: The FCIC forgets the housing bubble
Tyler…
mikethemadbiologist | February 12, 2011Sunny and above freezing! Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
What is systematics and what is taxonomy?
Less Is More: Sequencing on the Benchtop
New Zealand scientists record 'biodiversity breakdown'
Toddler obesity tied to introduction of solid foods (Does a really good job of putting 'breaking findings' in context--wish this happened more often)
Some Important and Weighty Stuff in Statistics
Other:
The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator
Dirty Money
With friends like these.....White House throws OSHA under the bus
More on Omar Suleiman, Alleged Hands-On Torturer
Vision: How Small,…
mikethemadbiologist | February 10, 2011Links for you. Science:
Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains: British team's success with jab that targets proteins common to every type of flu virus
Sexual discrimination against women in science may be institutional
On Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray From Lesson Plan
Scientific Perspiration
Other:
Crooked Morality Cops.
The local view on AOL/HuffPo: we're still where innovation is happening
Bad News for Charter Schools
Will the Three Birds Sing? (Republican freshman congressman David Rivera will probably be the first to join Tom DeLay in the hoosegow)
The Boring…
mikethemadbiologist | February 9, 2011Links for you. Science:
Equations that Spell Disaster: Researchers are pinpointing the factors that combine to produce complex diseases.
What are army ants?
Angry Sunday rant on behalf of my friends in the Minority Academic Ghetto*
Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in Academia
Will you still love me if I don't win the Nobel prize?
Review of data supports virus link to diabetes
Other:
On not passing the Turing Test (I hate that Turkish spam)
Does Behavioral Economics Undermine the Welfare State?
Economists and Incentives
Sarah Palin Trademark Refused. Why? She Didn't Sign The…
mikethemadbiologist | February 8, 2011Rain, but no snow. Links for you. Science:
A crustacean genome at last
Berg defends NCATS
Oysters disappearing worldwide
Unraveling Arthropoda
Other:
The Most Feminist Place in the World
2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police's Methods Firsthand
The courage of journalists, the cowardice of Limbaugh
Rush Owww
Master and Slave Morality
Learning To Walk: Fear, Shame And Your Underwater Mortgage (I don't see why shame is involved; this is a property transaction, nothing more)
Why do some countries' economies grow faster?
mikethemadbiologist | February 7, 2011Links for you. Science:
Microbial Landscapes
IN WHICH GALILEO PERSECUTES THE POPE.
It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are Lagging
Disease v. culture: Botulism in the Arctic
Other:
How To Get Someone With Friends In Egypt To Lose His Temper
Gender divides in Philosophy and other disciplines
Georgia Republican Bobby Franklin: You say you're a rape victim? Uh-uh -- not so fast. Prove it!
Returning the Blessings of an Immortal Life
Megan McArdle is Always Wrong (Again!): Kitchen History Edition
No Prayers for David Kato
The Siege of Planned Parenthood
Five myths about Ronald Reagan's…
mikethemadbiologist | February 6, 2011I hear there is some kind of major professional sporting event today. Until it starts, here are some links for you. Science:
Oral Contraceptives and Weight Gain: Data and Anecdotes
Parallel Parking Better For Pedestrian Health
Is Work Related Stress An Economic Disaster In Waiting?
Let's get rid of bad teachers, right? Does that include those who water down or completely avoid teaching evolution?
Other:
The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed (one more reason not to use it)
Sam Houston, We Have a Problem
Mobilizing the Jobless
The Founding Fathers Supported Socialized Medicine…
mikethemadbiologist | February 5, 2011At least, it's not snowing. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
This post is about vaginasâââââ
93 Percent of Wall Street Journal's Climate Op-Eds Misrepresent Science
Land fizzing like soda pop: farmer says CO2 injected underground is leaking (I want my thorium-powered reactors)
Scientists join protests on streets of Cairo to call for political reform
Other:
Deriving Their Just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...
The Civic Republican Roots of the Individual Mandate
Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But Grabbed Social Security and Medicare When She Needed Them
Why…
mikethemadbiologist | February 4, 2011Ugh. What a week. Links for you. Science:
Perspective on the Parenting Debate: Rich Parents Don't Matter?
Children's Genetic Potentials Are Subdued by Poverty
The shape of social progress - I
Other:
Too Bad Facts Don't Deter Anti-Choicers
The danger of certainty (it really is astonishing just how ignorant some atheists are of religion and religious people)
Update on conditions in Ireland...another letter from Ireland
Follow the Money (like Yves Smith, I find it perplexing that many people can't bring themselves to realize that some people wanted to sell loans that would fail)
Vernon Smith…
mikethemadbiologist | February 3, 2011I really, really wish it would snow. Regardless, here are some links. Science.
Throw the snow in the Harbor! (not convinced about the environmental impacts; I don't mind shipping some of them back to the burbs)
Bats in Borneo roost in carnivorous pitcher plants
The NIH reduces proposed budgets to fund more grants
Less punishment, less crime (80% of addicts still drug free after one year seems like a good intervention to me...)
Other:
Paul Ryan's Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part One
Reggae: the sound that revolutionised Britain. Punk may have got all the headlines, but reggae proved vital…
mikethemadbiologist | February 2, 2011How many links would a linkbot link if a linkbot could bot links? Dunno, but here are some links. Science:
Development of resistant Staphylococcus aureus over time
One of the first published accounts of sexual selection in koalas: What does it take for koala boys to get lucky?
Do Not Eat the "Paleo" Diet ("In the reality based community, we know that dinosaurs and humans were separated by 60 million years, and we don't adopt people as lifestyle gurus who believe otherwise.")
Nabokov was right - so was Stephen Jay Gould wrong?
The Enema of Your Enemy is Your Friend
Other:
Too young not to…
mikethemadbiologist | February 1, 2011Links for you. Science:
So I have this data, now what?
Jeremy Berg Demystifies the Funding Decision Process at NIGMS
Amoebas in drinking water: a double threat
Invasive Bees Ravage Native Bees in Vicious Death Match (and here)
Other:
Rachel Maddow: In America Today, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower Would Be Bernie Sanders in the U.S. Senate
NSTAR Green Undergoes Major Rate Increase
From quality to quantity - and maybe back again
Another Day in the Blue Collar Life
A call to protest ignites a call to arms: The reaction to Frances Fox Piven's essay urging the unemployed to protest for…
mikethemadbiologist | January 31, 2011Links for you. Science:
First, Amoeba Farming. Next, THE WORLD.
N.R.A. Stymies Firearms Research, Scientists Say
Genetics will not be used to abort straights OR gays
How The National Science Foundation Drives US Innovation
Separating Fact & Fiction: News about the proposed National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Jumbo Shrimps: Why Mega-Mammals Still Looked Puny Next to the Biggest Dinosaurs
Other:
Anti-Missourian best-sellers
President Romney vs. President Obama: Had Mitt Romney won the 2008 election, what would be different today? (economically, nothing; we would probably…
mikethemadbiologist | January 30, 2011Links for you. Science:
Gender and blogging (and everything else)
Nonfiction: Nabokov Theory on Butterfly Evolution Is Vindicated
Of course scientists can communicate
Send in the Creationist Clowns and Watch Science Education Suffer
Why University Scientists Do Not Discuss Religion
Other:
Hey You Men Who Yell "Nice Tits": STFU
Is President Obama Playing Peter Peterson's Budget Game?
When Big is FAIL
Setting new records in the art of callousness towards women (I can't stand these guys)
Boston: Then and now
Write A Negative Story About The NRA, Get Racist Hate Mail
mikethemadbiologist | January 28, 2011The snow berms now reach my shoulder. Ugh. Links for you. Science:
Phylogeny rules:
Why P-values are Evil
Belly Button Microbes: The First Peek
Polar bear's epic nine day swim in search of sea ice (gee whiz amazing, but very sad in the context of global warming)
Other:
TFA Founder Wendy Kopp: Don't Release Teacher Value-Added Scores to Newspapers
The Antidote to Deficit Hysteria - the Financial Transactions Tax
Homework (don't really agree about homework, but the point regarding poverty is critical)
10 flamethrowing contraptions that'll keep those dang kids off your lawn
Ayn Rand, parasite…
mikethemadbiologist | January 27, 2011Big...ball...of...fire...in...sky. Must retreat to the safety of links. Science
Coral Bleaching Prompts Thailand to Close Diving Sites
What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease
The Microbial Metagenome
How to Explain Science in Blog Posts (#scio11)
The Academia Ghetto
Other:
Stealing the Constitution
The Best Healthcare News You Didn't Hear This Week
The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty
Thousands of Post Offices, "Lifelines" of Rural Communities, Set to Close
The Market and Inequality: Progressives Lose When They Accept the Right's Framing
Death Threat for a Palin Critic…
mikethemadbiologist | January 26, 2011Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this blogger from links. Science:
Leapin' Blennies
Science Online 2011: Even when we want something, we need to hide it.
CloVR: A genomics tool for automated and portable sequence analysis using Virtual Machines and Cloud computing
Solar car speed record smashed
Other:
The Blue Collar Life
Beacon Hill: It's Time for 2 + 2
The Data Shows that State "Beggar Thy Neighbor" Policies Don't Work.
NYT: "You Think Houses Are a Slow Sell? Try a Yacht" (the last sentence is brilliant)
Mass Supreme Court to Consider Whether Buyers Out of Faulty…