Monthly Archives: December 2016

If Only There Were An Entity That Could Create Money And Use It To Fix The Broken Things

Posted on December 27, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Add this to ‘The Ongoing Suburban Fiscal Crisis’ files. The New York Times has an article about the ongoing attempts to privatize U.S. infrastructure using private equity firms (boldface mine): The Times analyzed three deals in which private equity firms … Continue reading →

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Links 12/26/16

Posted on December 26, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The Case For Natural History Museums Most of Greenland Melted In the Recent Past, Study Finds We finally have an effective Ebola vaccine. The war on the disease is about to change. You don’t get to … Continue reading →

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“Don’t Worry About Wearing White After Labor Day. Nobody Cares,” She Said

Posted on December 26, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

From here:

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Nate Cohn’s Post-Mortem Only Tells Half Of The Story

Posted on December 26, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

The Upper Midwest isn’t like the South–and we know that. Nate Cohn doesn’t. So a widely read piece by Nate Cohn suggests that turnout among whites wasn’t decisive in the shift from Obama to Trump. He argues this is largely … Continue reading →

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Links 12/25/16

Posted on December 25, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Gut Yontif to the Pontiff! And anyone else celebrating the holiday too! Links for you. Science: High levels of antibiotic tolerance and persistence are induced by the commercial anti-microbial triclosan Survival of the Fittest: How Bacterial Pathogens Utilize Bile To … Continue reading →

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USBG Christmas, Part II

Posted on December 25, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

As promised, more photos from the U.S. Botanic Garden holiday display. Without further delay, here are some Knife River Park lodge dwellings: Mesa Verde pueblos: And a warm welcome to Las Vegas:

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Links 12/24/16

Posted on December 24, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Livestock Antibiotics Surging Up, Up, Up Notes on a page Immune System, Unleashed by Cancer Therapies, Can Attack Organs Multicopy plasmids potentiate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria Earth, the Final Frontier Other: NARAL won’t … Continue reading →

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USBG Christmas, Part I

Posted on December 24, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Every year, the U.S. Botanic Gardens in D.C. puts together a themed model railroad display with the scenery made from plant materials. This year’s theme is U.S. national parks (and since Il Trumpe might sell them off, well…). It will … Continue reading →

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Links 12/23/16

Posted on December 23, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Critics assail paper claiming harm from cancer vaccine Keeping Our Eyes on the Antimicrobial Stewardship Ball: Dr. Tom Price as the next secretary of HHS (Price could be really, really bad for antimicrobial resistance efforts) Kate … Continue reading →

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The Root Cause Of Everything Bad?

Posted on December 23, 2016 by mikethemadbiologist

Dunno, but this is disturbing (boldface mine): The investigation found that most would rather be doing something – possibly even hurting themselves – than doing nothing or sitting alone with their thoughts, said the researchers, whose findings will be published … Continue reading →

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