Links for you. Science:
A Doctor’s Take On The Anti-Vaccine Movement
The AAA Tranche of Subprime Science (pdf)
Why Are Physicists Drawn to Economics?
On The Front Line in the Fight Against Polio
Top 5 in Bioinformatics
Other:
Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post, and his plan to take over the media world (speculative)–excellent
Pixel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in the Gig Economy (excellent)
Here’s Some Better Life Advice Than Richard Branson’s
Of Hippos and Kings
Talking to Anne Helen Petersen About Leaving Academia for Buzzfeed
VAM-Based Bias
Teacher: What it feels like to be evaluated on test scores of students I don’t have
Steward again a big backer of Martha Coakley
Everlasting Realities of the Bohemian Lifestyle
How Vape Pens Could Threaten the Pot Legalization Movement
Burial Rites of the Unemployed Tribesmen of North America
The Politics of Being Friends With White People: My best friend at 9 was white — but interracial friendships later became a struggle. Here’s why everything changed.
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