Links 3/20/11

By mikethemadbiologist on March 20, 2011.

There'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 Five Documentary
Ann Coulter, Radiation, and Hormesis
Is Success Deserved?
Taiwan's last sword-maker (video)
Why what's happened in Japan should be an ENDORSEMENT of nuclear power

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