Monthly Archives: March 2018

Links 3/23/18

Posted on March 23, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: World’s Media Bungled Twin Astronauts Study So Bad That NASA Had to Step In (that, or Scott Kelly turned into a rhesus monkey) When towns lose their newspapers, disease detectives are left flying blind Macular degeneration: … Continue reading →

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Betsy With The Good Hair Isn’t That Bad On Education Policy…

Posted on March 23, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

…for a significant portion of the Democratic mainstream (boldface mine): But if I’m reading the reaction to the [Education Secretary Betsy DeVos] clip correctly, what seems to be striking most people as ridiculous is DeVos’ advocacy of two particular ideas: … Continue reading →

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Links 3/22/18

Posted on March 22, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Why so many college students are coming down with the mumps Delay, delay, delay The new face of US science Shingles Is Nasty, And The New Vaccine Works Well. Why Do Adults Avoid Shots? RefSeq release … Continue reading →

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Morpho

Posted on March 22, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed at the National Museum of Natural History, D.C.:

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Will Self-Driving Cars Have Less Than 1,000 Accidents Per Year?

Posted on March 22, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

This week, the self-driving car contingent has rallied, this time behind the argument that driverless cars will be safer than what we currently have. The event that kicked this off was a self-driving car that killed a pedestrian in Arizona. … Continue reading →

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Links 3/21/18

Posted on March 21, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: ‘We’re Losing the Fight’: Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone The Machine Learning Reproducibility Crisis We spent a year photographing the animal crop raiders of the Amazon – … Continue reading →

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Calcite On Quartz

Posted on March 21, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed at the National Museum of Natural History, D.C.:

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Private Equity Is A Threat To R&D

Posted on March 21, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

So said the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, when it put the kibosh on Chinese-owned Broadcom buying U.S.-owned Qualcomm (boldface mine): Tuesday’s ruling was groundbreaking in that the issue wasn’t whether Singapore’s Broadcom itself posed a security … Continue reading →

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Links 3/20/18

Posted on March 20, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis, and do we need it to? The government has been undercounting opioid overdose deaths up to 35 percent, study says How Psychopaths See the World Doctors find virus in … Continue reading →

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Cuddly Nazis Aren’t So Cuddly After All

Posted on March 20, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Just a quick reminder that when the NY Times was giving Nazis–actual fucking Nazis–the opportunity to rehabilitate themselves, Nazis were always shitty, vile people. Because Nazis. That one of the poster boys was arrested for attacking his group’s co-founder after … Continue reading →

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