Links for you. Science:
Papers, reading papers here! (must-read about supposed workaholics)
What Crabs Are The Fightiest?
Peak Maple: Climate Change Wants to Ruin Your Pancakes
Finding a Way to Put a Zebra in Your Tank
James F. Crow, Population Genetics Pioneer, Dies at 95
Other:
Transgendered Sea Anemone Denounced As ‘Abomination’ By Clergy
Who Says Machines Must Be Useful?
How to complete your PhD (or any large project): Hard and soft deadlines, and the Martini Method
GOP speaker of Kansas House prays for Obama’s death, calls First Lady “Mrs. YoMama” (but we live in a post-racial society!)
Why Does Newt Gingrich Hate America?
What a difference a year makes
The GOP’s bizarre war on sex: Polls show we’re pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and ever kinkier. So why are the Republican candidates such prudes?
Mistakes and Ideology in Macroeconomics
Understanding the Literature of Economics: Plumbing the Depths of Ignorance Blogging
Media Made Hawking Famous
Keeping people in poverty, one mean-spirited program at a time
Austerity For Dummies: A 3-Minute Guide To A Very Bad (And Very Powerful) Idea
Study: “Better medical care has kept gun deaths constant, but total number of people shot has risen dramatically in the United States”
Don’t blame automation for high unemployment: another view
mikethemadbiologist
Anyone who has owned a lawnmower knows there is a huge market for useless machines.
Okay, was that article about the trangendered sea anemone a troll? Like, are they serious?! seriously! I have mixed feelings about it. I dunno if I should be laughing at the stupidity or crying for the poor invertebrate.