Monthly Archives: July 2010

Links 7/31/10

Posted on July 31, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s nice outside, but if you’re stuck inside, here are some links for you.
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On Heffernan: For Me, ScienceBlogs Isn’t Supposed to Be a Newspaper’s Science Section

Posted on July 31, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve never thought that ScienceBlogs was simply regurgitations of published science articles, with maybe some ‘life-as-a-scientist’ thrown into the mix.
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Why We Need to Vaccinate Germ Dispersal UnitsChildren: The Whooping Cough Edition

Posted on July 31, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Whooping cough, Streptococcus, and the Mad Biologist’s Pentultimate Postulate of Vaccination.
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Posted in Microbiology, Public Health, Vaccination | 3 Comments

“There. Are. Four. Lights”: How Torture Became Mainstream

Posted on July 30, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Creating “a powerful climate of opinion in which their recognizably crazy and fringe politics came to be seen as reasonable and a plausible element in national governance.”
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Links 7/29/10

Posted on July 29, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Some Thursday links for you.
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Doubts About the STAR Study: How Much Is Kindergarten Really Explaining?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Is the Project STAR study much ado about very little?
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Poverty and Science Education in Massachusetts

Posted on July 29, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Poverty is something that’s never mentioned in improving K-12 science education, yet it’s critical to performance.
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Posted in Education, Massachusetts, Statistics | 15 Comments

Links 7/28/10

Posted on July 28, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Some Wednesday links for you.
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One More Reason Why One Should Wary of Stocks

Posted on July 28, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

“Making money from less powerful counterparties is like shooting fish in a barrel.”
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Poverty and Learning in Massachusetts

Posted on July 28, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Poverty, even in one of the best educational systems in the world, accounts for a lot of poor performance.
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Posted in Education, Massachusetts, Statistics | 4 Comments