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While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading Dessa-lation This is good I read the letters between Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (of Pussy Riot) and Slavoj Zizek Jessica Conrad: Why Mayors Should Rule the World Vote in local elections. It means something Not From the Onion-NROL 39. Best logo ever How We’re Destroying Our Kids’ Brains Don’t blame vaccines You Can Also […]
Cold and hungry
The graduate student association at my university is collecting food for local food banks, but is having trouble getting donations. Our Food Bin is cold and hungry for some donations! Please plan to pass by with something to share this holiday season. We will offer your donations as some support to help families in need get […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
CRISPR technology leaps from lab to industry Kind of a big deal The cost savings of food stamps cuts versus the cost increases of diabetes care The Rise of the Urban Forest Trees make your city so much nicer This is what happiness looks like How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick […]
I got mine
The closing statement in my Republican aunt’s long rant about the evils of Obamacare: As you know, life is not fair and I am sick and tired of governments trying to make everything equal–I am not interested in a communistic society
Structural problems in academic science
Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University, argues that many of the research community’s problems flow from two big features of how we do research. First, we staff our labs with low-wage, temporary workers—graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who move on after a few years. This means that universities have an incentive to recruit […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading You Know What’s Fundamentally Regressive? NYC’s Current Toll System Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters. This is incredible Project ranks billions of drug interactions Minnesota State–Moorhead could cut 18 academic programs: Why do colleges cut aca… Evolution: A Stunning Monochromatic Exploration of Vertebrate Skeletons by Patrick […]