Links 7/15/14

Posted on July 15, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science:

World Now “A Safer Place”, thanks to creation of Potential Pandemic Virus
Absurd Creature of the Week: The Tiny Blood-Slurping Bird That Terrorizes the Galapagos
Not Just Bees: Controversial Pesticides Linked to Bird Declines
The Man Who Saved The Dinosaurs

Other:

It’s Time We Pay the Pipers: Freedom of Thought in a Vacuum of Patronage (excellent)
The Limits of Libertarianism (must-read)
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Steampunk
Still Living With Jack Bauer in a Terrified New American World
The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932
The 12 Scariest Findings in the New Report on the Bundy Ranch Standoff
Fellow Travelers of the Depression Lobby
College, Career and Democracy ready? Not without a trained librarian
Movie streaming shouldn’t mean obliterating the history of film
Lessons from Gaza: The power of any high-tech military is way less than it seems on paper
D.C. family homeless shelter beset by dysfunction, decay
The Real Reason Pot Is Still Illegal: Opponents of marijuana-law reform insist that legalization is dangerous—but the biggest threat is to their own bottom line.

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4 Responses to Links 7/15/14

  1. Bayesian Bouffant, FCD says:
    July 15, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    The Limits of Libertarianism (must-read)

    First legal-marijuana buyer in Spokane fired … but gets job back

    First, the good news for Boyer, the temp agency that was giving him 40 hours a week working in the auto-auction industry – TrueBlue Labor Ready — has, he told us, given him his job back and will pay him for the day he missed, Wednesday. Boyer accepted the job and pay.
    …
    The Associated Press got a hold of TrueBlue: “Stacey Burke, a spokeswoman Tacoma-based TrueBlue, says company policy prohibits being under the influence on the job. She said there’s no reason he would have been fired for having bought the pot, nor would the purchase have given the company reason to order him to take a drug test. She says the company is looking into Boyer’s claims, and that if he was fired outside of protocol, he would be reinstated.”

  3. colnago80 says:
    July 16, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    It’s about time for the IDF to stop putzing around and take a leaf from the Assad pere/fils playbook and apply Hama Rules to the Gaza Strip.

  4. colnago80 says:
    July 16, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    Counterpunch, the left wing equivalent of Stormfront.

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