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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

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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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Oct 2013 Links

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

Comic biography of Ayn Rand
Is the Advice of Economists Useful?
Repubs Worked to Engineer a Federal Budget Crisis
The MiddleMan comics and TV show
Reminder: lack of health insurance kills (Harvard Medical Schoo, 2009)
Using Windows XP in VirtualBox on Linux
Air-gap flash DIY
The roots of the 2008 financial crisis: Barry Ritholtz – November 6th, 2011 and Dean Baker Sunday, 03 July 2011
300KV Cockroft Walton multiplier
TIP120 transistor for power control
CR guide to health insurance

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Sept 2013 Links

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

True Courage
Commandments for Using PICs
NYT tribute to Eugenie C. Scott
Chris McCandless, who’s death in Alaska was described in “Into the Wild” was likely killed by a neurotoxin, beta-N-oxalyl-L-alpha-beta diaminoproprionic acid, known as ODAP. HOW CHRIS MCCANDLESS DIED POSTED BY JON KRAKAUER, The New Yorker, Sept 2013
11 questions to see if libertarians are hypocrites
Catching the stars: Roger Angel is one of the world’s most brilliant and audacious engineers. Could he design the next energy revolution? by Lee Billings
7 Ancient Writing Systems That Haven’t Been Deciphered Yet
End run options to avoid the the US debt-ceiling
Steampunk coffee shop (SA)
MakerJuice selling reasonably priced UV curable resin
Fossils at Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish & Wildlife Area
GeodeFest, held in September
Copper Bracelets and Magnetic Wrist Straps do not work for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Richmond et. al., 2013. PLoS ONE
Costs of Obamcare (ACA) on fast food businesses: 0.5% of sales, 3 cents / sandwich. Benefits: higher productivity and reduce absenteeism and turnover, workers get their hepatitis and other communicable diseases treated, flu shots and other vaccinations

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Aug 2013 Links

Saturday, August 24th, 2013

A case study of “disorganized development” and its possible relevance to genetic determinants of aging. Walker et. al. Mech Ageing Dev. 2009 May;130(5):350-6. PMID: 19428454
Delayed development syndrome (Brooke Greenberg from Reisterstown, Maryland; Gabrielle Williams of Montana; Nicky Freeman of Australia)
How An Engineering Toy For Girls Went From Kickstarter To Bestseller
Barrayar dreaming
Dolphins are not super intelligent
Bradley Manning and the Two Americas by Quinn Norton
Smallest geome: Nasuia deltocephalinicola. 112,000 base pairs. 137 protein-coding genes.
Two sleeps, sleep pattern before electricity
Mac speed comparisons

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Links for July 2013

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

FBI ignored plot to assassinate Occupy protesters
12 Very Real Voter-Suppression Tactics
Electro-Permanent cargo gripper
Electropermanent Magnetic Connectors and Actuators: Devices and Their Application in Programmable Matter by Ara Nerses Knaian
ALNiCo magnets
Sand resonance pattern video
MEAM waterjet, senior design project, 10k psi
Nothing About Abortion in the Bible
Iodine’s effect on IQ test scores–15 pts in iodine-deficient areas
Replacing Samsung SGH-T679M Digitizer
Silicon Valley (and the history of toxic waste)
Makers of Things
Human vestigial tail
A hundred proofs the Earth is not a Globe
History of Inequality
The Tea Party’s paranoid aesthetic by Kim Messick

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