Monthly Archives: April 2015

Charter Schools Have Failed as Laboratories

Posted on April 21, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Peter Greene makes an excellent point about the failed promise of charter schools (boldface mine): One of the standard justifications for the modern charter movement is that these laboratories of innovation will develop new techniques and programs that will then … Continue reading →

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Links 4/20/15

Posted on April 20, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: We can and should improve reproducibility. But it’s not a crisis, so can do it without panic. Genes Don’t Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does. Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Definition of Character

Posted on April 20, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

By way of Atrios, we come across this little slip of the tongue by a director of Democrats for Education Reform (boldface mine): Yet collecting educational data is important for the future of education and can help define the the … Continue reading →

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Vertical Farms and Surburbia/Exurbia

Posted on April 20, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve been interested in vertical farms since the idea was first kicked around. While there’s still a lot of pie-in-the-sky type thinking about vertical farming, it looks like it’s beginning to happen (boldface mine): A former Grammer, Dempsey and Hudson … Continue reading →

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Links 4/19/15

Posted on April 19, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Archaeologists find new evidence of lost colonists on Hatteras Punished for precision (or, too much information (TMI) from the micro lab!) Roads to Ruin Source of puzzling cosmic signals found — in the kitchen In California, … Continue reading →

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Storm Over Dupont

Posted on April 19, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

19th and Q Streets, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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The Clinton Conundrum

Posted on April 19, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Two posts illustrate the problem for what passes for the left in the U.S. First, Charles Pierce (boldface mine): If she is elected, she unequivocally will accept the science of anthropogenic climate change and treat it as a crisis. This … Continue reading →

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Links 4/18/15

Posted on April 18, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Clinton Makes Climate Change A Central Issue for 2016 The reality that dare not speak its name Ah Tawt I Taw a Terror Bird The Shortest-Known Paper Published in a Serious Math Journal: Two Succinct Sentences … Continue reading →

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The Other Reason Jews Aren’t Defecting to the GOP

Posted on April 18, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Josh Zeitz has a good article about the perpetual Republican dream that Jews will abandon the Democratic Party for the GOP. It’s pretty good (the “next year in New Hampshire” phrase is funny), but Zeitz misses a rather obvious reason–the … Continue reading →

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Links 4/17/15

Posted on April 17, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Seven Takeaways From “What’s Hot in Boston Biotech” Selectionism Strikes Back! California Senate panel passes a bill to end vaccination opt-outs for kids entering public school Why would a Californian drought trigger an outbreak of mosquito-borne … Continue reading →

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