Bloggers react to Bush's proposed budget:
- Science Progress has the totals for science-based agencies
- Heather Taylor at Switchboard thinks it's lame
- Gerald Epstein at SEAÂ probes a mystery $2 billion for Homeland Security R&D
- Climate Progress bemoans its anti-efficiency stanceÂ
- Amie Newman at RH Reality Check looks at its treatment of women's health
Elsewhere:
- Sonya at Enviroblog applauds a CPSC move toward safer furniture.
- Lisa Stiffler at Dateline Earth explains the findings about dust from Africa and Asia.
- Jeffrey Ball at Environmental Capital reports on Wall Street's new skepticism about Big Coal. Â
- April Harding at Global Health Policy wonders why the Economist is succumbing to the siren song of universal bednet giveaways.
- Revere at Effect Measure tells us why the chicken can't cross the road.
- Jeanne Whalen at Health Blog alerts us to a clever drug ad spoof.Â
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