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Links for March 2015

Thursday, March 5th, 2015

Ending the Creditor’s Paradise
First detailed microscopy evidence of bacteria at the lower size limit of life (0.2 um, 1/150th size of an E. coli) (paper)
Best Feminist Books For Younger Readers
Cold-brewed chocolate
A Chladni plate experiment–visualizes complex resonance patterns
Fuse glass in a microwave and metals
Variant annotation: ANNOVAR vs VEP: McCarthy et. al., 2014, pdf, suppl.
Blog post with a comparison: State of Variant Annotation: A Comparison of AnnoVar, snpEff and VEP by Andrew Jesaitis
TIP – Troubles in Paradise (history of creationist argumentation)
The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous–using naltrexone to treat alcoholism
Krugman reports on the Republican budget proposal
A Scientist’s Guide to Citizen Science

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Links for February 2015

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

Comic: Phoebe and Her Unicorn
Illumina sequencer comparison: XTen, HiSeq 2500, NextSeq 500, MiSeq
NextSeq 500, an odd choice
How fast is your flash? Measuring high-speed flashes
Plans for an air-gap flash
The Infection Schedule versus the Vaccination Schedule by Mark Crislip. Comparing the antigens in a vaccine to the number a person responds to in ordinary life.
Elysium Health (Guarente) has a NAD precursor + sirulin targeting anti-oxidant, $2/day
VAX! A game about epidemic prevention.
Roald Dahl on Olivia, writing in 1988. “MEASLES: A dangerous illness.”
UPC codes for a product, inexpensive from a reseller
USB id for a product, inexpensive from a reseller
NGS machine comparison

2015 Nebula award speculation

Origin of the $ sign

Converting files avi to mp4

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Links for January 2015

Friday, January 2nd, 2015

Designing The Best Board Game On The Planet: Twilight Struggle by Oliver Roeder
After 10 years, few payoffs from Gates’ ‘Grand Challenges’
the Mincome experiment in Dauphin, Manitoba, 19774-1979
State tax rates 2014
International SAT is Corrupt.
Great Commodore 64 game: The Castles of Dr. Creep (rewrite, description)
Science and the AAAS sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine by Orac, link to Science advert Supplement
Bat hibernation, muted immune response, and aging
More Rotavirus Vaccination Means Less Rotavirus, paywalled article Sahni et al., 2015 in Pediatrics
Cooking charts
Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder review

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Links for December 2014

Monday, December 8th, 2014

Travel ideas
30 Years of Conservative Nonsense, An Explainer By Kurt Eichenwald
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare By Matt Taibbi
Japan, Awash in Chaos by Noah Smith
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture by Robert Bruce Thompson
Why Didn’t Toxic Waste Cause a Cancer Epidemic, Like We Expected in the 1970s?
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Alientube, Reddit comments on YouTube
Every time zone tool
Vaccines Work
Nanopore Sequencing overview
“Manipulating the Pain: Chiropractic and Other ‘Alternative’ Treatments for Back Pain,” by
Richard A. Deyo

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Links for October 2014

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

What really undid the Berlin Wall, interview with historian Mary Sarotte
Genome-wide Ancestry Patterns in Rapanui Suggest Pre-European Admixture with Native Americans. Moreno-Mayar et. al., 2014, Current Biology
Russian site has birch scroll in Old Novgorod language, 1000-1400
New Deal projects site with a map!
34 states have governor elections only in off years
Theodore Roosevelt 100 Years Ago, “The people of the United States have but one instrument which they can efficiently use against the colossal combinations of business – and that instrument is the government of the United States…”
Lee Sheppard: Taxes Are A Monetary Instrument

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Links for September 2014

Sunday, September 7th, 2014

Hibernation in Lemurs
N-back memory task trainer
Pot research effectively forbidden in US

Ebola: Christian Althaus of the University of Bern in Switzerland just released a grim new calculation of the RO for this epidemic that finds that when the outbreak began in Guinea, it was RO = 1.5, so each person infected one and a half other people, for a moderate rate of epidemic growth. But by early July, the RO in Sierra Leone was a hideous 2.53, so the epidemic was more than doubling in size with each round of transmission. Today in Liberia, the virus is spreading so rapidly that no RO has been computed. Back in the spring, however, when matters were conceivably controllable, Liberia’s then-small rural outbreak was 1.59.


Egyptian D20
Egyptian D20
Banks control their Federal regulators
Lithium in water supply reduces suicide
Bennett Foddy’s Speed chess: up to 16 players, no waiting
Deep convolutional neural networks significantly improve computer vision in 2012
The destruction of Gary Webb over the CIA/crack history
Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It
Public health funding cut in half over the last decade

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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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