Links for you. Science:
Getting better without antibiotics
Becoming the Mentor I Want to Be VS the Mentor I Need to Be
Everyone Please Just Shut Up About GMOs (the tone is obnoxious, but valid points)
Why a Saudi Virus Is Spreading Alarm
Fixing Science, Not Just Psychology
Other:
Obituary: Bob Fletcher saved farms of interned Japanese Americans during WWII (must-read)
The Unexotic Underclass (very interesting)
How liberals saved California: It wasn’t Jerry Brown’s austerity that led the fiscal comeback. It was the state’s smart, bold progressive movement
When Black Kids Want to Learn and the World Tells Them ‘No’
Local school growing world’s largest Chia Head
It Wasn’t Michele Bachmann’s Ideas, It Was Her Money Power
Are U.S. Doctors Paid Too Much?
The Horrific Costs of the US-Colombia Trade Agreement
Why Big Data Is Not Truth
The last three on the island
The tax break state
CNET Founder Halsey Minor Bankrupt 5 Years After Firm’s $1.8 Billion Sale (fiscal responsibility is for the little people)
mikethemadbiologist
re:
“Everyone Please Just Shut Up About GMOs (the tone is obnoxious, but valid points)”
The author of that article is not an independent source – she is paid by Monsanto. It’s the points she *didn’t* raise which worries me.
i want that lego set: http://theconversation.com/genetically-modified-crops-shrink-farmings-pesticide-footprint-3004
A Simple Way to Reduce Suicides:
Via Steve M.