Monthly Archives: August 2016

Putting Defense Accounting Problems Into Scientific Context

Posted on August 24, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

What’s $62.4 billion among friends (boldface mine)? The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced…. The report affirms a 2013 … Continue reading →

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Links 8/23/16

Posted on August 23, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Please don’t take gynecological advice from Khloe Kardashian (that this even needs to be written… Still interesting biology though) An ethnographic study of the “open evidential culture” of research psychology On grant funding Lies, damn lies, … Continue reading →

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This Is Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars

Posted on August 23, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Perhaps because our best-and-brightest are building this instead (boldface mine): What’s a “pancake selfie” truck? Holiday Inn describes it thusly: The rolling pancake station is outfitted with five pancake machines, each producing one pancake per minute – all at the … Continue reading →

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We Dirty Hippies Were Right About The Public Option

Posted on August 23, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

In light of the revelations that Aetna told the federal government that if its proposed merger didn’t go through, it would pull out of ACA (‘Obamacare’) exchanges, let’s flashback to 2009 (boldface mine): President Obama’s advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they … Continue reading →

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Links 8/22/16

Posted on August 22, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The Opossum: L.A.’s Most Anxious Animal (“When you get an arrow through your frontal lobe, it kind of lobotomizes you”) From Dinosaur Sidewalk to Ray Buffet: Trace fossils are not always what they seem. What Does … Continue reading →

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The Power Of Positive Thinking

Posted on August 22, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed on P Street NW, between 14th and 15th, Logan Circle, D.C.:

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You Win At The Margins

Posted on August 22, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Chris Dillow makes a very good point about the Brexit vote (boldface mine): There’s something about the post-Brexit autopsies that I’m not entirely happy with. It’s the failure to distinguish between the margin and the infra-margin. …It’s that we knew … Continue reading →

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Links 8/21/16

Posted on August 21, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Why There’s New Hope About Ending Blindness (as usual, David Dobbs is worth the read) Obama administration to shift $81 million to fight Zika Nearly two decades of data reinforce concerns that pesticides are really bad … Continue reading →

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Who Enjoys “The Right To The City”?

Posted on August 21, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Because we believe intersectionality should be more than a tribal marker, we bring you this report from Baltimore by Lester Spencer (boldface mine): It’s clear from the DOJ report that the Baltimore City Police Department routinely stops, harasses, detains, and … Continue reading →

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Links 8/20/16

Posted on August 20, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Clinton endorses Biden’s cancer program, says she’ll ‘take up the charge’ NIH sets new postdoc stipend levels Hundreds of baby spiders just burst out of the ground — and zookeepers are delighted Hard Times in Venezuela … Continue reading →

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