Links for you. Science:
I am highly skeptical of the CHORUS system proposed by scientific publishers as an end run around PubMed Central
Not Your Granddaddy’s Garbage Burners: Why Burning Waste for Energy Fights Climate Change
Vitamins: stop taking the pills
A Mechanism Design Approach to Peer Review
Traditional media – what’s to like?
Other:
Hospitals are still awful: The movement toward patient centered care
President Obama’s Dragnet
A Syrian Refugee Wedding: Early marriage and domestic violence in the camps are a fact of life for girls fleeing the civil war
Heckling Mrs. Obama is entirely productive
Can DC decouple growth and “parking pressures”?
Israel Prods Ultra-Orthodox to ‘Share Burden’
Krugman – more Wicksell than Keynes
Civil Liberties Are Not Something You Trade
NSA PRISM program taps in to user data of Facebook, Yahoo and others
Mike Rogers: As Confused about Telecom Surveillance as He Is about Drone Strikes
US Exports and PRISM
President Obama’s War
When reporters keep silent instead of scoops
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