Monthly Archives: September 2018

Links 9/20/18

Posted on September 20, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Roswell Biotechnologies Harnesses Molecular Electronics for Chip-Based DNA Sequencing Appeals court upholds CRISPR patents awarded to the Broad Institute The Mysterious Green Orbs That Float by Day and Sink at Night ‘I Want to Burn Things … Continue reading →

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Brett Kavanaugh And Degenerate ‘Suburban’ Culture

Posted on September 20, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Or maybe it should be called elite rape culture. From the Washington Post (boldface mine): She and a friend went to a house in Washington’s Tenleytown neighborhood packed with high school kids, including a throng of boys from Gonzaga College … Continue reading →

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Links 9/19/18

Posted on September 19, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Meet The Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners Should ‘Race’ Be Taught in High School Biology? He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then … Continue reading →

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Several Thoughts On Kavanaugh

Posted on September 19, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

While I’m out today, here are some thoughts about the Kavanaugh nomination that, hopefully, haven’t been overtaken by events (and aren’t the same damn thing everyone else is saying). In no particular order: I think there’s a misunderstanding about the … Continue reading →

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Links 9/18/18

Posted on September 18, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: With a shrinking EPA, Trump delivers on his promise to cut government New Dwarf Dragons Have Been Found in the Andes How Birds Survived the Asteroid Impact That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs There are whales as … Continue reading →

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Bloomberg Should Run For President. As A Republican

Posted on September 18, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to run for the Democratic presidential nomination–and he has a Kunning Plan! (boldface mine): Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of a business news empire, is preparing to run for president as a Democrat, … Continue reading →

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Links 9/17/18

Posted on September 17, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm National park officials were told climate change was ‘sensitive.’ So they removed it from a … Continue reading →

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U.S. Foreign Policy Always Requires An Opponent. Sanders Found A Good One

Posted on September 17, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Senator Bernie Sanders coined a good phrase in a recent op-ed, “the international authoritarian axis“–though I would have gone with “the axis of authoritarianism” (boldface mine): At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, when the world’s top 1% … Continue reading →

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Links 9/16/18

Posted on September 16, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions (‘Radical’ because it would harm Nature’s business model…) This is how computers “predict the future” Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade The keto … Continue reading →

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The Conservative Con Rolls On

Posted on September 16, 2018 by mikethemadbiologist

While the left, construed very broadly, needs to keep an eye on the #Resistance grifters, they have nothing on conmen like Alex Jones (boldface mine): Kelly Jones compared Mr. Jones’s marketing to that of a televangelist, preaching to his faithful, … Continue reading →

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