Links 6/2/12

Links for you. Science:

Chagas Disease: Poverty, Immigration, and the ‘New HIV/AIDS’
I see “They Saw a Protest”
Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, and the Consensus of the Many
Tough Love II: 25 tips for early-career scientists
Beverage industry is not enthusiastic about merging NIAAA with NIDA

Other:

Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools (excellent)
School desegregation and the fear years
About Scaring that Confidence Fairy Away
Chernobyl’s Real Horror Show Isn’t the Radiation, It’s the Economics
Infinite Resources (“The resource is money. They can make as much as that as they want.”)
SEC: Taking on Big Firms is ‘Tempting,’ But We Prefer Whaling on Little Guys
Serpent-handling pastor profiled earlier in Washington Post dies from rattlesnake bite (apparently, the casualties balance out the converts)
The 1 Percent’s Problem: Why won’t America’s 1 percent—such as the six Walmart heirs, whose wealth equals that of the entire bottom 30 percent—be a bit more…selfish? As the widening financial divide cripples the U.S. economy, even those at the top will pay a steep price.
Our Mr. Brooks Hops Aboard History’s New Bullet Train
Disgusting: 7 Million Kids and Mothers Suffer Extreme Poverty in the Richest Country in the World
Steve Jobs Almost Named The iMac The MacMan, Until This Guy Stopped Him
THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: POVERTY & UNEMPLOYMENT (this assumes he’s not a Rockefeller Republican at heart; to date, I see no reason to think otherwise)
Artur Davis, Always The Skin-Crawling Opportunist Makes It Official: He’s Gone From ConservaDem To Republican

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