Links for you. Science:
Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes for Medical Advances
The 8-Hour Sleep Myth: How I Learned That Everything I Knew About Sleep Was Wrong
Open, moral and pragmatic
New Yorker article on the evolution of altruism and the kin-selection flap
Other:
What if foreigners sell their dollars?
Economists don’t think like accountants—but maybe they should
35 Shocking Statistics That Prove That Things Have Gotten Worse In America
Rush Limbaugh’s show targets jerks, judging from the latest ads
A Personhood Amendment, for Ladies
IT’S OFFICIAL: America’s Greatest Source Of Job Destruction Is Coming To An End (Right. Now let’s hire them back)
Johnny Depp as Cultural Appropriation Jack Sparrow…I mean Tonto.
How a $1,000 test could destroy the health-insurance industry (a long ways to go–the profit cap in the PPACA will probably do much more and sooner)
On the $1,000 Genome and the Future of Health Systems
Bio-Info-Tech: The Cyborg Baby of Cheap Genomes and Cloud Data
How the Wall Street Thieves Keep Wrecking America (the key point is that the states are still getting hammered by the chicanery)
Who Outed Patrick McHenry?
mikethemadbiologist
35 Shocking Statistics That Prove That Things Have Gotten Worse In America
Shallow. Many of these compare current conditions to 2007, which was the peak of the shitpile bubble.
This post will be spooling up in a few days, but starting wages were higher in 2000, than 2007. It’s been a long term decline.