Here are what you, dear readers, liked the best in 2012:
2. The Economics PhD Job Market As a Reality-Distortion Field: STEM PhDs, We Made a Bad Career Move
10. Dear Oxford Nanopore: How About Some Data?
11. A Modest Proposal: Alabama Whites Are Genetically Inferior to Massachusetts Whites (FOR REALZ!)
12. Praise the Lord and Pass the (6,000 Rounds of) Ammunition
20. A Case Study in How the Poor Are Prosecuted for Being Poor
21. In Boston’s Public Garden, Someone Didn’t Tiptoe Through the…
22. The STEM PhD Glut Makes the Mainstream Media
23. You Know That Island in the Middle of the Boston Public Garden’s Lagoon?
30. WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS! And Surfaces Too (Or How Class Bias Can Kill)
31. How Austerity Is Making You Sick: The Whooping Cough Edition
32. Four Hours at the ER Is Expensive (And Why a Bag of Saline Costs $676)
42. Snow and Flowers
43. Romney: If You’re Poor, It’s “Free Stuff.” If You’re Rich, It’s Job Creation
51. It’s Not the Algebra, It’s the Arithmetic
52. Why I Think Microbial Genomics Will Be More Profitable Than Human Genomics Over the Short Term
Some bonus posts (for FREE!!):
Because What Back Bay Really Needs Is Another Fucking Cupcake Store
Back Bay Evening in Snow
It Sure Looks Like There’s a PhD Glut, Especially If You’re a Young PhD
Pity the Poor Couple Who Make Only $450,000 Per Year (Again)
So What Could Nanopore Mean for Bacterial Genomics? (And the Pelham 123 Problem)
Models, Prediction and Throwing a Baseball: Why Black Box Approximation Is Not Casuality
How to Extract Wealth, Mitt Romney Style: The Bain Bust Out
And Now For Something Steampunk: The Waterworks Museum
Carbapenem Resistance: It Keeps Spreading (and Why Medical Tourism Is a Really Bad Idea)
You can’t have 50, 51, 52 in base 4. They are 100, 101, 102
Even 40-43 is wrong 🙂
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