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Happy Wednesday. Links for you. Science: Genetic Genealogy and the Single Segment Fungi Developed to Fight Malaria in Mosquitoes What a real astrobiologist at NASA has to say You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential Other: Why employee pensions aren't…
Now if former head of the OMB Peter Orszag were only so charitable when it came to disability benefits. From AMERICAblog, here's the timeline: 2005 Peter Orszag, already at the Brookings Institute, proposes the Diamond-Orszag Plan, "Saving Social Security" (pdf; intro here; comment here). He wants…
Happy Saturday. Links for you. Science: Robot Snowplow from Japan Eats Up Snow, Poops Out Bricks Immunization for Addiction: the Cocaine Vaccine Why are demented women still getting mammograms? Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything Is the Evolution Debate Over? Parsing…
Marshall Auerback comments on the new 'creative' economy (italics mine): Finally, there is the odious problem of political corruption, which manifests itself in many forms, but most recently through the cynical revolving door policy between Wall Street and government. Peter Orszag's move to Citi…