Links for you. Science:
Left to our own devices
How malaria defeats our drugs
A disturbing example of quackademic medicine at an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center
The Drugging of the American Boy
Funding: MRC injects funds into medical informatics
Other:
Overhaul of schools is the wrong diagnosis
Brian Cox’s Scotch pronounciation guide (the Lagavulin bit is priceless)
The Biggest Public School Problem Might Be the Brand: Surprisingly, public schools outperform private and charter schools—but no one knows it.
Attacking academic values
The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive
New York Schools: The Roar of the Charters
Randomness in decision-making
The Strange Case Of Justina Pelletier
Swedish Pop Mafia
SHAMEFUL JOY
TEACH THE JOURNALISTS WELL: Real teachers and children inside our real schools!
Deadly myth about millennials: The dark truth about a misunderstood generation
We Have Come to Drag Days
How Bill de Blasio Is Being Framed: The NYC mayor as fumbling amateur: this story writes itself, no facts required.
mikethemadbiologist
The shoe drops:
Rising Japanese scientist faked heralded stem cell research, lab says