Links 8/14/15

Links for you. Science:

Evidence Suggests That Rio’s “Raw Sewage” Olympic Lake May Not Be Great for Athletes’ Health
The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received
Sociologists need to be better at replication
The biggest infectious disease threat we face isn’t Ebola – it’s our short attention span
CDC To Congress: Raise Our Budget Or Americans Will Die Needlessly

Other:

The Forgotten Story of America’s Other Racist Flag
Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go? War, Vietnam and Today
Permit Expediter Accused of Paying Off DCRA Staffers With ‘Lunch Money’
Washington street in 1955, Parking all day (Boston)
SCARE ‘EM WITH CITIES.
Water Main Break Floods Intersection In Silver Spring (but whatever could we spend stimulus money on? Yes, I’m still bitter about that…)
In Defense of Art and Artists
How Donald Trump abandoned his father’s middle-class housing empire for luxury building
THE DEFENSE OF OFFENSE: DOCUMENTS REVEAL ‘JUSTIFICATION’ FOR MASS POLICE MILITARIZATION
Brain imaging research is often wrong. This researcher wants to change that.
Classified E-mail in the News Again: This Time, Hillary’s
[Kansas governor] Sam Brownback’s brother accused of terrorizing rural neighbors (this is like something out of Southern Bastards)
The People’s Metro logo
War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever: China, Russia and the U.S. are developing and testing controversial new capabilities to wage war in space despite their denial of such work
A Crucial Realization About Journalism is Learned by Being its Subject
Frank Bruni Waxes Poetic on the Teacher Shortage
The sinking of the Canadian Navy
CBO to Bernie Sanders: Ending sequester could create 1.4 million jobs

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