Lotsa Links
mikethemadbiologist | August 31, 2011Links for you. Science:
Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the Amazon
What do accommodationists do about creationist politicians?
I've Been Told You Can Get Flu From the Flu Shot: False!
Federal Work Suspension of Leading Arctic Scientist Ended as Investigation of His Investigators Deepens
Other:
Conservatives, Nostalgia, and Racism
The Chapter That Went Missing From Dick Cheney's Book
Tech Wizards (are other professors and teachers also seeing this?)
The New Atheism
Crime in the Wake of Hurricane Irene
Rats emboldened by Rick Perry
Why I'm not voting for Obama in 2012…
mikethemadbiologist | August 30, 2011Links for you.
Another Scientist Calls Out Sen. Coburn's Misleading, Juvenile "Report"
XMRV: ITS EVERYWHERE! UUUUUGH! ITS IN MY RACCOON WOUNDS! AND MY QIAGEN COLUMNS!
Coulter Goes All Science-y in Bid to Disprove Evolution
Yet another bad day for the anti-vaccine movement 2011
Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria... For Good?
Other:
Case study: why economics and addiction do not mix
Republican Politician Naked, Bending Over on Gay Sex Site (not surprising, not safe for work)
FOUND BLOETRY
Marrying Tech and Art: Steven Johnson on the magic of his first Mac--and how it changed his life…
mikethemadbiologist | August 29, 2011Not much of a storm, at least in Boston. Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
Teh Wimminz in Academia Thingy Again
Racial Disparity in NIH Grants: Solutions from Your Humble Narrator
Worst Excuse Ever (to not disclose ties to pharma companies. For Intelligent Designer's sake NIH, even Darrell Issa would be embarrassed to use that excuse)
Cost of Compassion: Drug Resistance in Military Hospitals (what's interesting is that drug resistance is so much higher in bacteria from Afghans than from U.S. soldiers)
Friday Tiger Blogging
Other:
Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal
More on the…
mikethemadbiologist | August 28, 2011Links for you. Science:
Something in the water: What drugs are local residents abusing? A researcher's solution to that vexing problem suggests just how much our sewage knows about us
Modern Rivers Shaped By Trees: Rivers were wide and shallow until the evolution of treelike plants, which got the waterways into line.
Heritability
On science and liberalism
Other:
It's Time For A New Kind Of Bank Of America Solution--The Right Kind
Fenway Court (what is now the Gardiner Museum, when it was lived in and the shades were open)
Your Home Birth is Not a Feminist Statement">Your Home Birth is Not…
mikethemadbiologist | August 27, 2011Links for you. Science:
'Shrimp On A Treadmill': The Politics Of 'Silly' Studies
Evolutionary Diplomacy
NHGRI funds development of revolutionary DNA sequencing technologies (lotsa nanoporey stuff being funded)
Nat'l Academies Hope to Build a Better Postdoc
Does Tenure Matter?
Other:
The worst thing that Rick Perry said ...
STD programs not sexy enough to avoid funding cuts
Of the Tea Party, by the Tea Party, for the Tea Party
Call for Resignation: Kathryn S. Wylde, NY Fed
Tom Ferguson: The English Riots - Just Meaningless Sound and Fury?
Near-As-No-Matter Feudalism
What could Obama have done…
mikethemadbiologist | August 26, 2011Links for you. Science:
Blog Debunks 13-Year-Old Scientist's Solar Power Breakthrough
When Anthrax first came to North America
Eco-labelled fish may be unsustainably fished, or the wrong species
If You Are Anti-Science, You Are Anti-Jobs
The complexity of cancer
Other:
Why isn't the climate left stronger?
No App-etite
Another Senior Journalist Confesses to Ignorance
Department of "Huh?!": What Obama Could Have Done Department (what I've found odd in all of this is how many of those who vehemently argue there's very little that could be done are so young. They sound old and crotchety)
Rick…
mikethemadbiologist | August 25, 2011Links for you. Science:
Why biology (and chemistry) is not physics
That's One Gigantic Wasp
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
When you say flu, what do you really mean?
Newly found: the world's oldest fossils!
Other:
Legal academia and the problem of bad faith
Why the World hates economics (the end has a really good discussion of the actual--not economist-postulated--role of bank reserves)
Don't kill America's databook
The Taking Care of Our Shit Initiative
Opinion: A White, Powdery Substance in Copley Square
Our Broken Democracy, in One Headline
Food Safety in China, and the Risk to the…
mikethemadbiologist | August 23, 2011Links for you. Science:
Warning: Killer fungi could run amok again
Republicans and Democrats Differ on Evolution
Sewage Treatment, Coral Disease, and Koch's Postulates
Racial Disparity in NIH Grants: Priority Scores
Other:
The Purpose-Driven Lie
Two bad polls for Obama (liberal blogs and the Cassandra complex)
Krugman and the Firebaggers: Hippie Punching Department
Print vs. Online: The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers.
What the U.S. Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen Sex
Rick Perry's 'Texas Miracle' consisted of 125,000 new government jobs
Taxing Capital…
mikethemadbiologist | August 23, 2011Erm, better late than never? Links for you. Science:
Sentences You Will Probably Never Read in a Published Paper
The GOP candidates have no time for your "science," scientists
13-Year-Old Looks at Trees, Makes Solar Power Breakthrough
Global Warming is a Litmus Test For US Republicans
Other:
Does Rand Paul question the HIV AIDS link?
Tentpoled
The real grand bargain, coming undone
Free sucks. I want my privacy back
Rick Perry Talks About Sex
Brian Moynihan and Empress Eudoxia
Teaching Sexuality Education
As He Turns 75, Thoughts on the Legacy of Robert Redford
Why a Strong Dollar Is a…
mikethemadbiologist | August 21, 2011Links for you. Science:
NIH Uncovers Racial Disparity in Grant Awards
Otters are back in England
Scientists engineer suicide bomber bacteria to kill other bacteria
Project Nim - The Untold Story
Other:
Painstaking, dot-point summary - bond issuance doesn't lower inflation risk
What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party
Welcome to the Poorhouse: The tragic, heartrending, poignant plight of the moderately rich.
The Secret Language Code
Perry Keeps Treating `Em Ugly
The death of pseudonyms? Not so fast...
Oh Dear
U.S. debt--let's do the numbers
Anti-Date Rape Straw
mikethemadbiologist | August 20, 2011Links for you. Science:
Just What is the Brain-Eating "Amoeba" Naegleria fowleri?
OA doesn't cost jobs: it creates them. And saves lives.
Why Sequence Microbes?
Tests confirm that roaming deer caused fatal E. coli outbreak in Washington County, elsewhere
Scientific Literacy by Gender (only ~50% of people know it takes a year for the earth to travel around the sun?)
Other:
The dual-taxation meme
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
Another One Bites the Dust
Rick Perry's heroes have always been cowboys, although apparently the ones wearing the black hats
Case Study: How a notorious…
mikethemadbiologist | August 19, 2011Links for you. Science:
Texas Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe Responds To Rick Perry
What Will You Earn With a Ph.D.?
Pig-Size South American Rodent Spotted in Central California
Can Math Beat Financial Markets?
Other:
Paul, its time to update your textbook (wonky, but must-read)
Rick Perry for President? My Experience with "The Texas Unmiracle" (Krugman)
Back to school in the USA: 4 charts
John Singer Sargent murals
Rick Perry Is Now Sorry He Banned Parental Honor Killings
End This Fed
Summer jobs reduce crime and we can prove it
What Michele Bachmann's submission theology really means…
mikethemadbiologist | August 18, 2011Links for you. Science:
Ringing the Warning Bell: Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella (one thing that's unclear is the mechanism of colistin resistance, since I haven't seen the paper yet)
Crosstown Traffic
The Physics of a Sad Balloon
Baby Fat: Do birth control pills make women gain weight?
Other:
Hard and Complicated Aren't Synonyms (very good point about political problems versus technical ones)
What's The Agenda
Did Rick Perry Have A Fake Black Guy Running A Twitter Account?
New Data: Tea Party is Authoritarian, Not Libertarian
Shorter Weeks, Longer Vacations
Can Suburbs Be Designed to Do Away…
mikethemadbiologist | August 17, 2011Links for you. Science:
Breast Cancer Awareness Marketing has a Pink Problem
Homosexual zebra finches form long-term bond
Here's what it actually costs to run a university science lab
What Does It Cost to Run a Small College Lab?
Other:
Krugman Taken to the Modern Money Cleaners
"Almost treasonous"
Chinese authorities find 22 fake Apple stores
Washington, Capital of Economic Optimism (as someone who visits Washington regularly, this definitely rings true; the economy there is doing well, much to the detriment of the rest of us)
Physician Administrative Costs in the US vs. Canada
The…
mikethemadbiologist | August 16, 2011Links for you. Science:
Poo3d!!!!
Creationism: That (Not So) Old Time Religion
A few notes about SCIENTISTS for those attending 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'...
Other:
Income inequality is bad for rich people too
Who's Really Responsible For U.S. Debt Downgrade (words do have meaning)
Governor Perry Caught in Explosive Dirty Deals Scandal
If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman
Ever Meet A Republican Anti-Gay Fanatic Who WASN'T A Closet Case?
Most Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency expense
Going to the Food Bank
The Big Washington Consensus Lie
The moral decay of our society is…
mikethemadbiologist | August 15, 2011Links for you. Science:
Universal Flu Vaccine Another Step Closer, But Still Far
The annotated apocalypse: Anthropologists tackle 2012
Drug Resistance in Food -- Coming from Aquaculture?
Other:
I blame the British government for the riots (I think everyone who prattles on about the 'culture of poverty' should read this)
It's the Political Economy, Stupid!
The Great Splintering
"Hop on the Welfare Wagon" (from 1932. Things change, not always for the better)
Rick Perry's Unanswered Prayers
The Hijacked Crisis
Every single GOP 2012er would walk away from a 10-to-1 deficit deal on spending and…
mikethemadbiologist | August 14, 2011Links for you. Science:
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection
Fever in children: 5 facts you must know
Half the variation in I.Q. due to variation in genes
Going Organic Cuts Poultry Farms' "Superbug" Bacteria in Single Generation
Other:
Can Teachers Alone Overcome Poverty? Steven Brill Thinks So
Simple questions
Field Position
The Good Old Days
Why Michelle Malkin Should Be Caged Like a Rabid Shih Tzu (Teacher Edition)
THERE ARE NO LIBERTARIANS IN AIRPLANES
The redistribution of federal taxes from state to state in the US
Turning Poverty Into an American Crime
Too Big To Fail
They'…
mikethemadbiologist | August 13, 2011Links for you. Science:
"We Win": Conservative Media Celebrate Public Misconception That Climate Scientists "Falsified" Data
Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve (it's actually about how human genomics is forcing a reality check. For some).
A Fox News Science Lesson
It's not a freaking spider bite
Other:
The Bad Deal (by James Galbraith. Must-read)
New York Times' Panic Reporting Gets S&P, Markets 180 Degrees Wrong
Good Thing I Read the Post
Tent Cities and Demonstrations
The myth of the job creator
The debt ceiling, the White House and the damage of 'compromise'
Chinese…
mikethemadbiologist | August 12, 2011Links for you. Science:
Economic Astronomy: Gender Gaps in Lifetime Earnings
Crohn's disease is about barely keeping you alive
A crowd psychology analysis of the riots
The spread of disorder - can graffiti promote littering and theft?
Other:
For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide Fraud
The Ideology of No
Why the Meat Industry Sells Salmonella
Climate change deniers spout B.S., says Al Gore
Can the Middle Class Be Saved?
Rick Perry is not too smart
Is Obama Smart?
An excuse for slashing entitlements
This is why your flight is delayed
The Unappeasable Financial Markets
mikethemadbiologist | August 11, 2011Links for you. Science:
IonTorrent: longer reads, longer homopolymers?
The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up Steam
How people in science see each other (hysterical)
The Mangled Web of Scientific Misinformation
Other:
102 Things NOT To Do If You Hate Taxes
What You Need When You're Poor: Heritage Foundation Hasn't a Clue
Marshall Auerback: A Beer(s) Hall Putsch From the Rentiers?
most of the kids are alright
Password Strength
Letter to Senator Kerry on Social Security Comments
Do Liberals Understand American Politics? (Willis makes a very good point, although he seems…