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Links for August 2014

Friday, August 1st, 2014

Turns out that the ‘crack baby’ epidemic was another racist popular delusion
Just like the ‘juvenile super-predator’ panic of the 1990’s
Angelina Fanny Hess invents agar culture of bacteria in the 1880s
Pot legalization has no effect on teen use (study pdf)
Invasive species in the Great Lakes
Spectrometer tests for drugged drinks (interesting to see if this turns out to be real)
The Higgs boson and the purpose of a republic
Two Americas: Ferguson, Missouri Versus the Bundy Ranch, Nevada
Republican House Benghazi committee finds bupkis
Confirmation that Nixon committed treason to win 1968 election Nixon, Reagan, GHW Bush, who else…
Ferguson PD Video Backfires; Brown Seen Paying For Cigarillos
Bob Altemeyer’s – The Authoritarians. Explores some of the roots of conservatism.
Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party
Welcome Trust historical images

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Links for July 2014

Monday, July 7th, 2014

Virginia Teacher of the Year Tells Why He Resigned
Moleculo Technology is Available as TruSeq Synthetic Long-Read DNA Library Prep Kits (local assembly gives 8-10kb contigs
Biologists vs. Astronomers on the Fermi Paradox
Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by Melinda Wenner Moyer (little evidence of benefit of supplements, only for deficient individuals
10 algorithms that dominate our world
Heinlein in Dimension by Alexei Panshin
Kansas implements GOP economic polices and crashes
Texas Republican Party platform is nuts , Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker
SSRIs: not much better than nothing, but with serious common side effects
Pushback from the Dem establishment against the effort to eliminate public schools
About Steampunk
Chicago Prostitution Heat Map
Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber!!! McKellar et. al., 2011
John H. Ostam: The Man Who Saved The Dinosaurs
So You Want to Watch Macross, But Don’t Know Where to Start
Notes on the defeat of charter schools in Mass
Ayn Rand’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
You Are Not Late (on the internet)

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Links for June 2014

Monday, June 9th, 2014

What Became of The Entwives: Political Lesbianism
the Levitron
Politicians and Pundits Demanded an Armed Revolution, So the Millers Attempted to Deliver One
And Melissa McEwan at Shakesville on rightwing eliminationism
The GOP had adopted its current language by 1964: Barry Goldwater on Civil Rights: June 19, 1964
US healthcare: high cost and poor outcomes
OECD_health_2013
IOM_US_female_life_expectancy
Recovered Economic History: “Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious”
Low lights of Obama’s first term

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Links for May 2014

Tuesday, May 6th, 2014

Laser enthusiast (trans from German)
Economics: Opponents Of Transfer Payments Are Not Serious
Origin of the Toll House cookie recipe
Earthtainer planter pdf
Testing de novo assembly bioinformatics
CC number generator for web site registrations
Color enhancing glasses help correct colorblindness
Chopra text generator
Bill Higgins blog
Is gluten sensitivity common?
Flexible opals Stober process
Jacob’s ladder with a flyback transformer
How A Troublesome Inheritance gets human genetics wrong by Jeremy Yoder
Human genetic substructure papers–Tishkoff et al., 2009, Rosenberg et al., 2005

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Links for April 2014

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

Tess, software for designing tesselations
FBI suppression of peaceful activists
True Bugs posters
Truth about vaccines
Private equity companies in business as slumlords
Outbreaks sourced to labs
Peter Baker’s Days of Fire hackery
Handmade kalliroscope
Crab-ble – A Table That Walks
Nanopore sequencing
The Meaning of Oaths and a Forgotten Man by Lt. Col. Robert Bateman
DIY fog curtain
Pyro Board: A Two Dimensional Ruben’s Tube
Wave simulation java applets
Obama Declares Obamacare Victory
Books to read: Joan Robinson’s “Introduction to Modern Economics” (1973)
Magnet platforms moved by circuit board coils
Crude demonstration of 2D linear motor

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Links for March 2014

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

1 pixel moon
Guide to Convincing Parents to Vaccinate their Children
Boosting the signal: THE SMALL TOOLS MANIFESTO FOR BIOINFORMATICS
Zero senators per state
Why the Fed hates inflation
Progressive Caucus’s Better Off Budget
Levels of analysis of religion, Atran, Boyer & Wilson
Whistleblower Reveals Favoritism Toward the Rich, Robo-Signing at the IRS
Top 5 Bioinformatics papers
Measles spreading in the US
The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry by Lance Dodes (Author), Zachary Dodes
Autism risk

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Links for February 2014

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014


Firefly’s 15 Best Chinese Curses (and How to Say Them)
If at First You Don’t Succeed: A short history of the Republicans’ 48 attempts to repeal Obamacare. By NEERA TANDEN
Origin of America the Beautiful
Syphilis: Then and Now. Researchers are zeroing in on the origin of syphilis and related diseases, which continue to plague the human population some 500 years after the first documented case. By Kristin N Harper, Molly K. Zuckerman, and George J. Armelagos
Misunderstanding Orange Juice as a Health Drink: Juice is, nutritionally, not much better than soda. How did U.S. consumers come to believe that oranges, in any form, were an important part of a healthy diet? by Adee Braun
The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks’ Most Devious Scam Yet By Matt Taibbi
From & Friends: Failing upward at the Democratic Leadership Council with Al From. by Rick Perlstein
Oxford Nanopore MinION early data review
Chicago food inspection reports are online
Ten Terrific Resources for Writing Space-Based Hard Science Fiction
Honey Badger
Recent history of political murder in Argentina: An Interview with Uki Goñi by Jessica Sequeira
Panda’s Thumb tears apart “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review”
DNA-encoded libraries for drug discovery
Coiled fishing line as muscle fiber
How to Write About Tax Havens and the Super-Rich: An Interview with Nicholas Shaxson
Boltzmann’s Anthropic Brain
The Deep State and its vulnerability

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Links for January 2014

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

Cars above 50 MPG
Acupuncture found to be ineffective Bao et. al., 2013. Cancer Genetics, ppt
Collection of great posts on the pathology of the Repubs
10 million Americans now have health insurance due to Obamcare/ACA (6.4 million + 3.1 million < 26 on parents plans + direct signups
Genomics predictions for 2014
Debunking global warming denial: Is the CO2 absorption window saturated?
Scarleteen: sex ed for the real world
What happens when patients know more than their doctors? Experiences of health interactions after diabetes patient education: a qualitative patient-led study, Snow et. al., BMJ Open 2013
NSA and surveillance: Jacob Appelbaum’s talk on the NSA at 30c3 computing conference
Refuting arguments against the minimum wage: Greg Mankiw Battles the Minimum Wage (Dean Baker)
Growing Up Unvaccinated By Amy Parker
Dragon watches you
Contagious Diseases in the United States from 1888
to the Present. Panhuis et. al., 2013 NEJM blog post
9 Childhood Illnesses: more common than you think.
Cat ceiling playground
OpenROV: DIY underwater robots
Brad DeLong post with recommended books on effective govt service
Maps of preventable disease outbreaks
US Political Party Platforms
Whatever Happened to Republican Feminists? by Jo Freeman (1996)
It’s not Ike’s Party anymore by digby
Metal Clay!!
The Bountiful Breweries of the United States of America poster Pop Chart Lab

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Links for December 2013

Sunday, December 8th, 2013

Yellow fever could break out in the US
JeeYoung Lee makes rooms and photographs them
STEM toys
Fraud and the design of corporations
6-strand rope braid
8-strand double braid
Breaking contracts: cutting pensions in IL and Detroit
Edouard Martinet’s steampunk insects
Econ charts: public and private net jobs by President
Correlations of IQ with income and wealth
Death Star ornaments
Soundcard oscilloscope
Galinstan –low melting pt metal found in thermometers
Inexpensive USB oscilloscopes / logic analyzers
JP Morgan Chase and corruption, foreign and domestic
Running A One-Person Business by Claude Whitmyer and Salli Rasberry
Post-scarcity economics and Star Trek
Indiana public schools ‘out-grow’ charter, private schools
Taxes are unnecessary, the Fed can just print money
Chicago’s Ventra Card privatization scam
Susan after Narnia
WAVE: check if a web site can be accessed by others
Deleting phone location logs
Estate tax swindle: use GRATs, don’t pay
Evolution: GOP and evangelical protestants are the Known-Nothings

Best blog posts of the year
The Rude Pundit: A More Realistic Bush Museum
Insufferable Movie Snob: What the heck is “Pre-Code”?
Real American Liberal: Debunking Extremist Gun Arguments

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Links for November 2013

Monday, November 4th, 2013

Fantastic SF Travel Illustrations
What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? by Philip E. Agre August 2004
30 of 44 tested herbal supplements are not what the label says journal link
Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt (research by Brad Werner, Kevin Anderson, and Alice Bows)
Build a Fire Tornado instructable
Stock options: I, II
Jeremy Hammond, 10 yrs in prison for embarrassing the powers with Stratfor hack
Concrete arrows across the US
Jonathon Green’s timelines of dirty words
Linky post on education, the NY, and MA by
Mike the Mad Biologist
Cliff Reid of Complete Genomics on predictions for genomic medicine
ACMG Recommendations on Incidental Findings in Exome/Genome Sequencing

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