Links for you. Science:
Dear “Skeptics,” Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
The Bugs That Live On Us and Around Us
What does a museum curator do?
Trees seen resting branches while ‘asleep’ for the first time
How Factory Farms Play Chicken With Antibiotics
Other:
R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party
The Test of Leadership as Sanders Rolls in Oregon
As US politicians romanticize doomed manufacturing jobs, the new working class is suffering
The Chair Thrown ‘Round the World
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Leninist
A HAND-JOB, NOT A HAND-OUT
FiveThirtyEight said Metro catches fire 4 times per week. Fortunately, that’s wrong.
Ancient Device for Determining Taxes Discovered in Egypt
How the Dogmatic Despair of Mainstream Economists Brought You Donald Trump
Why Bernie Sanders is the most successful socialist in American history
GW Lays Off More Than Half of Corcoran School’s Faculty
FBI Confirms 2015 Was One Of The Safest Years Ever For Cops (good!)
Labor-Environmentalist Rift in the Democratic Party? Not Really.
New Public Editor and Iraq
‘The Wire’ actor Wendell Pierce charged with battery, reportedly for attacking Sanders supporter
Conservative congressional candidate shares screenshot, forgets to close porn windows
mikethemadbiologist
Most people would be surprised at where ‘police officer’ ranks on a list of deadliest occupations.
This is probably because when a fisherman or farm worker gets killed on the job, it does not make national headlines.
You can find a lot of pushback to this rant by John “End of Science” Horgan. At Jerry Coyne’s web site, for example.