It’s super surgetastic, surgegasmic (surgical?) Surging Sunday. Here are some links for you. Science first:
- If you have had MRSA, please take this survey. If you know someone else who has, please forward the link.
- Imagine if we could wipe out the AIDS/HIV epidemic, and we did nothing. You don’t have to imagine it–it’s called annual influenza.
- Bee colony collapse is associated with a virus.
- Paul Rosenberg describes the Surge in the War on Global Warming.
- ScienceBlogling Razib describes some new research about amylase production in humans: starchy selection!
- Quixote divides stem cell research into three parts.
- Why you should learn biology: so you don’t humiliate yourself in public.
Other stuff:
- My take on the statistics of the Surge.
- I see demon (worshiper)s. In a related post, Brian describes his previous life as an exorcist.
- Got Klan? Send in the Klowns!
- Speaking of racism, here’s a must-read post about the permanence of overt racism in America.
- ScienceBlogling Bora has a superb post about false journalistic balance.
- Michael Lewis has a great satirical post about how the poor take advantage of rich lenders.
- ScienceBlogling Nick tells us about the emerging role of blogs in Democratic politics.
- Democrats need to hold the line on economic issues (fat chance…).
- The Brookings Institute is just another right-wing faith tank.
- Generation X: a generation at (health) risk.
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