Monthly Archives: January 2014

Charters, Tenure, and Hungry Kids

Posted on January 12, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

So it appears a principal at a charter school was fired because she didn’t want to humiliate low-income children who needed food: Former Peak to Peak elementary principal Noelle Roni said Sunday she was fired by the Lafayette charter school … Continue reading →

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Links 1/11/14

Posted on January 11, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Growing Up Unvaccinated: I had the healthiest childhood imaginable. And yet I was sick all the time. Urbanization Has Been Destroying the Environment Since the Very First Cities Could you have the flu? Evolution Hidden in … Continue reading →

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My Own Private Pool

Posted on January 11, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed at the New England Aquarium:

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Christie’s Retribution and Post-Partum Depression

Posted on January 11, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

This is sinking pretty low, even by Gov. Chris Christie’s standards. Apparently, Christie took out his frustrations at former New Jersey Gov. Codey by cutting this program: What has been the most significant of those “slights”? The most significant probably … Continue reading →

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Links 1/10/14

Posted on January 10, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Beware techies talking gobbledegook 20 GMO questions: Animal, vegetable, controversy? Sunday Species Snapshot: Forest Owlet (the “Where found” section is interesting) Transcript: Jacob Appelbaum at 30c3: To Protect And Infect, The Militarization of the Internet PLoS … Continue reading →

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Gov. Christie, Trust and the ‘NSA Test’

Posted on January 10, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Back when I was a wee Mad Biologist, there was a ‘litmus test’* around national security: Would you trust Presidential Candidate X with the Nukular Arsenal? (conservatives, on occasion, try to dredge this up, especially when confronted with a female … Continue reading →

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Meeting the Massachusetts Standard

Posted on January 10, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve argued many times that a good start for real education reform, instead of reinventing a square wheel, would be for other states to clone Massachusetts’ educational system (in the spirit of No Child Left Behind and Race to the … Continue reading →

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Links 1/9/14

Posted on January 9, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: One problem with geoengineering: Once you start, you can’t really stop Shoes, New Years, Science Online, and All Else That’s Fit to Print (Part 2) A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops Were People … Continue reading →

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Does Toronto’s Rob Ford Need a Defense Minister?

Posted on January 9, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

If he does, Paul Hellyer, former Canadian defense minister seems like the right guy for the job (boldface mine): I don’t want to disturb what you’re doing right now, but apparently four different species of aliens have been visiting Earth … Continue reading →

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Passenger Pigeons: Speculation on Humans and Ecological Release

Posted on January 9, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

There’s a review of A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction that’s worth reading. I’ll probably end up getting a copy of the book at some point, but, according to the review, the book doesn’t … Continue reading →

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