Links 6/13/11

By mikethemadbiologist on June 13, 2011.

What is the sun doing in the sky? Let's celebrate with some links. Science:

Charity: Save Four Million Lives With Vaccines
Grape-Sized Amoeba Raises Questions About Origins of Animal Life
Risk, probability, and how our brains are easily misled
An early cure for parents' vaccine panic

Other:

The faith-based economics of deficit reduction
Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom (don't forget about all the naughty sex you can't have in these 'free' places either)
Saudi Arabia on the Hudson: NYPD Officer Stopped Cyclist For Wearing Skirt
Are All Labor Market Matching Problems Structural?
A life in the theater (excellent post about the assholelishness of David Mamet)
An open letter to my fellow cyclists
Is Mitt Romney A Job Creator-- Or A Job Destroyer?
Space, Time and DVR Mechanics: When it's come to sports, it's live ... or it's totally dead

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