Links for you. Science:
Singled out
33 Nudibranchs More Colorful Than Nicki Minaj
Modern Evolutionary Theory Reading List
We need a sociologist of science…or a philosopher
Sequestration forces NASA to hold up educational and outreach efforts
Other:
New England and the subtracted city (pdf)
It’s the Dispersion Stupid: Why Men Don’t Go to College
Kit Seelye reports on the Boston schools! (great minds think alike)
Entrepreneurial wingnuttery: Glenn Beck is making a *lot* of money
Good news for people who like bad news about inequality
Getting Iraq Wrong
Remembering the macho: yes supporting Iraq was all about manly men and the women who drooled over them
Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America
The roads must roll
Stay-Rich-Quick Schemes.
mikethemadbiologist
Have you read Susan Faludi’s book The Terror Dream? In the second half of it she spends a lot of time documenting just the thing Digby’s post talks about. (The first half is history, talking about pioneer and cowboy myths, about white men valiantly protecting white women from Indians. She argues that the post-9/11 cult of masculinity is the same thing, but with Muslim foreigners playing the part of the Indians.)