Links for you. Science:
Society: Don’t blame the mothers
How CDC Uses Antibiotic Resistance Data (leaves out the role of several other agencies, but good overview of NARMS)
Diphaglossa gayi
In Sierra Leone, an exhausting struggle to contain Ebola: In West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, there are too many patients, too many bodies, and not enough money, people, chlorine or even ambulances.
Other:
IN A COUNTRY WITH PERMANENT EMPATHY FATIGUE, YOU CAN DO PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING YOU WANT TO THE DESPISED
Dear Michelle
Do American Rich Kids do Worse on International Tests than Rich Kids from Other Countries?
The luckiest generation
Michelle Rhee-branded, But Still Promoting Crap
In the 1930s, a New Yorker editor wrote this perfect style guide for today’s bloggers
Jon Stewart is not enough: The curse of centrism, and why the Tea Party keeps rolling “Daily Show” Democrats
A Star-Powered School Sputters: Prime Prep Academy, Founded by Deion Sanders, Comes Under Scrutiny
The Holes in the Chetty et al VAM Study as Seen by the American Statistical Association
The Public Option Would Have Made Most Of ObamaCare Unnecessary
Riot Response From Los Angeles to Ferguson
No, it isn’t only libertarians who care about civil liberties
“Fake” sport, real exploitation: How pro wrestling mirrors American capitalism: It’s become a billion-dollar spectacle, and yet wrestling has managed to avoid real scrutiny. It’s an age-old story
A new test for conservatives on Ferguson
Letters: Ancient hatred stalks the land once more
mikethemadbiologist
Auburn researchers make breakthrough discovery about evolution of spiders and their webs
Gassing the Poor would have made most of the Affordable Care Act unnecessary as well, and would have save a lot of cash.
As a strategy for health care reform it had about as much support in Congress as did the public option, so can we please stop rehashing this stupid argument? If you people had put as much effort into passing the public option as you put into whining about your failure, perhaps we might all be riding unicorns in Happy Gumdrop Fairytale Land.
He appears to conflate anonymity with abuse. Why not concentrate on the abuse itself? It is possible to be online anonymously without abusing people.