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June 2013 Links

Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Allpaths-LG genome assembler
ELM327 interpreter chip provides an RS-232 (serial) interface to ODBII car network
About universal basic income
Catsup tank video
Article on a CBO report on tax breaks
CBO report: The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures
in the Individual Income Tax System
We Already Tried Libertarianism – It Was Called Feudalism by Mike Konczal
Spiders do not Bite
Perspective on Institutional Secrecy and Leaks
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart
Books to read: The Invention of Religion by Alexander Drake
Books to read: Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow
ChildbirthConnection.org evidence-based information on pregnancy

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May 2013 Links

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities By David Roberts, source pdf
Article about the 2012 Chicago teachers strike and the school bus driver strike in NYC this year
Competing theories of the genetics of the Jews. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Watch making project blog
Glasswing Butterflies
Glasswing
CSS element browser support
BatchPCB is now OSHPark
Sharps and Flats by John Nevil Maskelyne (1894)
Octopus intelligence
Potoo
Illegal surveillance on US activists continues
Wingnut rumors: Will the IRS hire 16,500 new agents to enforce the health care law?

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Links for April 2013

Monday, April 1st, 2013

State and local tax rates
Marine nudibranches
Big farm in a Chicago warehouse
Conspiracy theory poll results 2013
Study of patents effect on innovation, expected results found
On Ezra Klein’s mea culpa on the Iraq War
Magazine review of sleep technology: modafinil, armodafinil, Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS), and TMS are the best yet
Niumbaha superba a rare African vespertilionid bat reclassified. Badger-striped!
Bunny Huang’s open source radiation detector $799 from Medcom, and the bGeigie Nano kit, $450
Vaccine story
Anti-vaccine track record

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Links for March 2013

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Weight and Mortality
Updated list of Illinois makerspaces/hackerspaces:
Little Bits Workshop in River Forest, Illinois
Wanger Family Fab Lab at the Museum of Science and Industry
Makerspace Urbana in Urbana, IL (webpage broken) See here
Pumping Station: One in Chicago (north side), IL
Workshop 88, Glen Ellyn, IL
Deficit down 50% since 2009, national press ignores the story
40% of American workers make less than 1968 minimum wage adjusted for productivity gains
A guy building a CNC, posted a SLA7078 stepper driver
Google doodle for Nicolaus Copernicus’s 540th birthday
Hail Columbia!
Our Current Economic Mess, Explained With Headlines
Inexpensive GPS, Mini GPS u-blox B39 PCI-5S
Brasilian birds background audio
DIY high voltage capacitors
Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved

Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide. Marcano et al., AC Nano. 2010
Effectiveness of vaccines, graphic
2003 Iraq invasion timeline

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Links for February 2013

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

The Conservative Mind
The Long Con: Mail Order Conservatism
Stepper driver circuit using an Allegro driver
Scam School web TV show
Open States, tracks political info at the state level
Some of the history of US assassination policy

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Links for January 2013

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

The 21st century is a teenager now!

App development stories
Google App Analytics
Google App Analytics with PhoneGap
Sysadmin horror story featuring Sendmail
CTCA: Profiting from Offering Ineffective Therapies to Cancer Patients
Wild Sex
Transparent magnets (aerogel with tiny magnet particles
Crazy unstable compounds: Azidoazide Azides
Dr. Oz, health care fraud tout
Total assessed property value in the US is roughly $30 trillion.
Chicago teacher’s strike 1 2
Romney’s 47%
HTML5 Canvas
The Republican war on democracy in the US
Voting ID laws
Nate Silver strays out of his niche, messes everything up
Scenes from the class war, part I
Funny sex comic part 2
Did they really think only old white men would hear the dogwhistles?
Pibgorn Comic
The best of the internet: John Holbo on the strange world of the conservative mind
The SABRE, an air-breathing rocket engine
Men are too emotional to have a rational argument
The GAGE assessment of short read sequence assemblers
Review of SASHA AND EMMA, The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
David Brin: Science Fiction for Young Adults: A Recommended List
Diagrams on Conservatism, The Four Types of Conservatives
Totalitarianism in the US: An Accident Waiting to Happen
HMC5883L Digital Compass Module: $10.90 bare HMC5883L, $6.95
Three Axis Magnetic Field / Electronic Compass Sensor Module: $9.90
Fran Blanche, electronics projects / small business
the Makey Makey w/ capacitive sensing
7 steps to turn a photo into a cartoon using Gimp
Andrew Sullivan, destructive hack
Women Don’t Like Libertarianism Because They Don’t Like Libertarianism
Timothy Geithner: Modern Day Metternich
Phage / antibiotic combination treatment
Arrogant Worms “Wouldn’t it be Great if Everybody had a Gun”
C. elegans modeling group OpenWorm
Muckraker Tarbell writes on Standard Oil in 1901

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Links for December 2012

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

Steel finish grades: BA, 2BA, 7, 8 are shiny
Proteins designed from scratch in Baker lab Koga et al, 2012
How the immune system works (for non-scientists)
khmer, a general framework for low-memory k-mer counting, filtering, and advanced trickery
the NRA, scheming
Sisu
To Keep and Bear Arms, September 21, 1995, Garry Wills, review of 2nd amendment law
Brief, but damning end of year review of the Washington Post
Massive online open courses, the future of work, and more
Funny, funny book
Perl one-liner tips

Illinois makerspaces/hackerspaces:
Little Bits Workshop in River Forest, Illinois
Wanger Family Fab Lab at the Museum of Science and Industry
Makerspace Urbana in Urbana, IL (webpage broken) See here
Pumping Station: One in Chicago (north side), IL

Making Machinable Wax

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Links for November 2012

Saturday, November 10th, 2012

Common passwords
Occupy is having a jubilee
Delta government spending by administration (Rick Ungar, 5/24/12 Forbes)
Govt spending by admin
There’s Already a Center-Right Party
Roman geometric shapes in bronze
Glass frogs from the cloud forests of South America pdf1, pdf2
glass frog

Fighting over Miss Piggy:
Glass frogs fighting over female

The forgotten recent history of religion and abortion
Fiscal Madness, a summary of the current US budget situation as it relates to the economy
When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists)
Walmart and the squeeze on the lower middle class
How Damon Runyon Would Have Explained Jon Corzine

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Links for October 2012

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

(El Niño-Southern Oscillation) ENSO
Mann reviews Nate Silver’s book on climate change Spoiler: skip
Failures of electricity privatization in Australia
Thomas Jefferson’s spurious quotations.
Rusty-spotted cats
Anodizing aluminum
Anodizng titanium
Corn production moving north due to climate change
Great kinetic wood sculptures
Early days of the witch hunt in Hollywood
Inactivity bad for health. Be interesting to see if this holds up in future studies (Wilmot et al., 2012)
The slow destruction of the University of California

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Links for September 2012

Friday, September 7th, 2012

More and better bioinformatics software would be nice, I agree!
Hyperinflation
Japanese river otter extinct, last seen 30 years ago
Teacher pay compared to other college grads
Report on US Schools
US schools, better than ever
High power LEDs exist and are fairly inexpensive: 30-50W Luminus Devices PT-54-B-C21-EPA for $30 at Mouser

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