Monthly Archives: October 2016

Links 10/23/16

Posted on October 23, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Rock-Smashing Monkeys Unintentionally Make Sharp Stone Tools 5 Ways a Post-Antibiotic Era Could Change Medicine Jennifer Lopez Sets Futuristic Bio-Terror Drama at NBC (not sure this is helping…) Tasmanian devil milk fights superbugs Greenland Is Melting … Continue reading →

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Evan Bayh And The Congressional Retirement Plan™

Posted on October 23, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Many moons ago, I described what I call the Congressional Retirement Plan™, which at the time, was a novel concept (boldface added): I think he’s right in that it’s not about the campaign contributions. If their reluctance to support a … Continue reading →

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Links 10/22/16

Posted on October 22, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Small Island, Big Experiment Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food ‘Brexit’ May Hurt Britain Where It Thrives: Science and Research Natural selection in our species during the last two millennia Arizona’s Adorable Monster Other: The … Continue reading →

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Selling The Sizzle When The Steak Needs Work

Posted on October 22, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

While Kathleen Geier is writing about feminist issues, I think this is a good warning for the left as a whole (boldface mine): If you searched for a single headline that distilled what has been so depressing about feminist commentary … Continue reading →

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Links 10/21/16

Posted on October 21, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Why Elon Musk’s Mars Vision Needs ‘Some Real Imagination’ From @teamwaxman in STAT: pharma waste and antibiotic resistance A natural barrier to lateral gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes revealed from genomes: the 70 % rule … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Have Gentrification Without A Gentry

Posted on October 21, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Pointing out the obvious yet neglected component of gentrification (boldface mine): But why Brooklyn, and why now? There’s no one answer. Rather, several interlocking factors have helped bring about the New Brooklyn: Inequality. To have $4,000-a-month rents, you need renters … Continue reading →

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Links 10/20/16

Posted on October 20, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Sky-high C-section rates in the US don’t translate to better birth outcomes Your World, Rocked: A good introduction to geology course is actually a course in time Jellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda … Continue reading →

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No One Could Have Predicted This Problem With The PPACA

Posted on October 20, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Nope, nobody at all. Sarah Kliff, in “The Obamacare problem that Democrats don’t want to talk about“, writes (boldface mine): Bill Clinton made a very specific critique of Obamacare last week — one that most Democrats won’t. “The people that … Continue reading →

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Links 10/19/16

Posted on October 19, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Sequencing, not random probes, are future of microbiological diagnostics Big Pharma’s Manufactured Epidemic: The Misdiagnosis of ADHD Russia Is Vital to Protecting Antarctica’s Ross Sea Hell-bent on Survival MIT’s Fusion Reactor Broke a World Record Right … Continue reading →

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BREAKING PODESTA EMAIL SCANDAL!

Posted on October 19, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Disturbing, if true!

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