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moominmuppetMay be getting sucked back into a bunch of project work at work soon, but today there's time for linketies!
RHRealityCheck: Kansas Board of Health Revokes License Of Doctor For Not Forcing 10 Year Olds To Give Birth
OurBodiesOurselves: Doctor Speaks Out Against Abortion Laws That Require Lying to Patients
Alternet: Supreme Court Throws Out Most of Draconian Arizona Immigration Law, Keeps "Papers, Please" Part For Now
Alternet: Supreme Court Rulings: Montana Loses Citizens United Challenge, Life Terms For Juveniles Overturned
LATimes: South African photographer believes theft was hate crime
Burglars stole hard drives that contained the archive of five years of the artist's extraordinary work celebrating lesbians in many African countries.
PetitionSite: Keep Caves Closed to Save Our Bats
Time: Should Clinical Trials Be Outsourced? -- It's an older article, but it's an issue that disturbs me greatly.
ONTD_Political: 10 Things You Would Miss About Obamacare
Alternet: Legal Aid Society Sues New York City over Bogus Pot Arrests
IO9: Christian fundamentalist textbooks touting the Loch Ness Monster as proof of Creationism
NPR: Famed Tortoise Dies In Galapagos Islands
ONTD_Political: Airman, partner united in civil union at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
IO9: How many calories does thinking burn?
RHRealityCheck: Virginia Attorney General Oversteps His Role, and the Law, In Asserting “Veto” Power in TRAP Regulatory Process
Alternet: Republicans Freak Out That Airforce Isn't Extremist Christian Enough
Alternet: Why Did NY Times Publish Hackish Op-Ed on Planned Parenthood (By Romney Advisor's Wife)?
IO9: How We Died 200 Years Ago, Compared to How We Die Today
PlainDealer: Study looks at high rate of depression among nurses
Alternet: If the Supreme Court Rejects Health Care, I (And Millions Like Me) Am Screwed
InTheseTimes: Toxic Chemicals in Hair and Nail Salons Create Serious Suffering in the Name of Beauty
ThinkProgress: Over Two Decades, Abortion Rate Dropped For Women In Their 20s Because Of Contraception Access
ThinkProgress: Twenty-two states will not offer coverage of contraception to women on the same basis as it is offered to men if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.
ColumbusDispatch: An anti-abortion group in Ohio is facing a significant shortfall in the number of signatures needed to ask voters in the presidential battleground this fall whether the state constitution should declare that life begins when a human egg is fertilized, throwing up another obstacle for the "personhood" movement. -- Good.
Pharyngula: A quick peek at the future Louisiana science curriculum
Alternet: Progressive Candidate Darcy Burner: How I Became the Target of a Right-Wing Smear Campaign
After giving a speech about the politics of abortion, Burner became the target of a dishonest campaign cooked up by conservative bloggers.
WomensENews: School Sex Segregation Loses Ground
Sex-stereotyping is rife in single-sex classrooms in U.S. public schools. Boys are encouraged to move around, girls are told to sit still and think in terms of cosmetics and wedding dresses. This is why the ACLU victory in West Virginia is so huge.
Anti-segregationists looking to refute all this got a huge break in 2011 when the prestigious journal Science ran an article by eight prominent scientists entitled "The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling." The lead author on the piece was professor Diane Halpern of Claremont McKenna College, past president of the American Psychological Association.
They wrote that single-sex education in public schools "is deeply misguided and often justified by weak, cherry-picked or misconstrued scientific claims rather than by valid scientific evidence."
And they added, "There is no well-designed research showing that single-sex education improves students' academic performance, but there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism." -- Can I kiss the authors? (this is a favorite rant topic of mine)
JCOnline: Guest column: Why we reject Daniels as Purdue's president
Mitch Daniels’ appointment as president of Purdue shows contempt for many of the people that make up the university and pay taxes and tuition to support it: students and faculty from working families, women, minorities, research scientists, environmentalists, gays and lesbians.
IO9: Beautiful prosthetic legs that are made to be seen
IO9: Researchers create a new male contraceptive that you apply like lotion -- interesting, although I'm more hopeful overall about RISUG
WashingtonPost: Washington state provides case study on effects of heath-care reform
Salon: Science or sex: Which does the right hate more?
Parents and right-wingers revolt when a teacher dares answer fifth-graders' questions with honesty and respect
SherrodBrown: OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED: A Constitutional Amendment
SeedCulture: Three hundred people–indigenous Amazonians, fishers and farmers, Earth defenders–gathered on June 15 to symbolically free the Xingu River by digging a channel through the earthen precursor to the Belo Monte Dam. They then planted 500 açai palms to protect the banks of their disrupted river.
ONTD_Science: Prehistoric cave paintings ANIMATED under flicker of torchlight
ONTD_Science: Monsanto's new DroughtGuard crop more expensive and less drought tolerant than traditional crops
ITakeUpSpace: Dear APA: Fat Is Not a Symptom or a Disease
Confusion over risks, symptoms and causes leads to bad practice.
MSN: Belly 'Membrane' May Regulate Immune System, Mouse Study Finds
ScientificAmerican: Opinion: FDA’s decision on BPA exposes Catch 22
Telegraph: Popularity of woollen coffins soars
Sales of woollen coffins have risen by 700 per cent over the last year as Britons opt for more environmentally friendly burials.
FatHeffalump: EMBRACING THE RIDICULOUS AND REJECTING RIDICULE
NYTimes: Our Animal Natures
AS an attending physician at U.C.L.A., I see a wide variety of maladies. But I also consult occasionally at the Los Angeles Zoo, where the veterinarians’ rounds are strikingly similar to those I conduct with my physician colleagues. Intrigued by the overlap, I began making careful notes of the conditions I came across by day in my human patients. At night, I combed veterinary databases and journals for their correlates, asking myself a simple question: “Do animals get [fill in the disease]?” I started with the big killers. Do animals get breast cancer? Stress-induced heart attacks? Brain tumors? How about shingles and gout? Fainting spells? Night after night, condition after condition, the answer kept coming back “yes.” My research yielded a series of fascinating commonalities.
RHRealityCheck: Women Deserve Factual Medical Information, About Everything Including Abortion Care
OurBodiesOurselves: Some Vaginal Meshes for Prolapse Coming Off the Market; FDA Expresses Safety Concerns About These Devices
ONTD_Political: Muxes: A Third Gender in Oaxaca, Mexico
ThinkProgress: ‘Brave’s Merida, and Why We Need to Stop Equating Gender Performance and Sexual Orientation
RHRealityCheck: Kansas Board of Health Revokes License Of Doctor For Not Forcing 10 Year Olds To Give Birth
OurBodiesOurselves: Doctor Speaks Out Against Abortion Laws That Require Lying to Patients
Alternet: Supreme Court Throws Out Most of Draconian Arizona Immigration Law, Keeps "Papers, Please" Part For Now
Alternet: Supreme Court Rulings: Montana Loses Citizens United Challenge, Life Terms For Juveniles Overturned
LATimes: South African photographer believes theft was hate crime
Burglars stole hard drives that contained the archive of five years of the artist's extraordinary work celebrating lesbians in many African countries.
PetitionSite: Keep Caves Closed to Save Our Bats
Time: Should Clinical Trials Be Outsourced? -- It's an older article, but it's an issue that disturbs me greatly.
ONTD_Political: 10 Things You Would Miss About Obamacare
Alternet: Legal Aid Society Sues New York City over Bogus Pot Arrests
IO9: Christian fundamentalist textbooks touting the Loch Ness Monster as proof of Creationism
NPR: Famed Tortoise Dies In Galapagos Islands
ONTD_Political: Airman, partner united in civil union at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
IO9: How many calories does thinking burn?
RHRealityCheck: Virginia Attorney General Oversteps His Role, and the Law, In Asserting “Veto” Power in TRAP Regulatory Process
Alternet: Republicans Freak Out That Airforce Isn't Extremist Christian Enough
Alternet: Why Did NY Times Publish Hackish Op-Ed on Planned Parenthood (By Romney Advisor's Wife)?
IO9: How We Died 200 Years Ago, Compared to How We Die Today
PlainDealer: Study looks at high rate of depression among nurses
Alternet: If the Supreme Court Rejects Health Care, I (And Millions Like Me) Am Screwed
InTheseTimes: Toxic Chemicals in Hair and Nail Salons Create Serious Suffering in the Name of Beauty
ThinkProgress: Over Two Decades, Abortion Rate Dropped For Women In Their 20s Because Of Contraception Access
ThinkProgress: Twenty-two states will not offer coverage of contraception to women on the same basis as it is offered to men if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.
ColumbusDispatch: An anti-abortion group in Ohio is facing a significant shortfall in the number of signatures needed to ask voters in the presidential battleground this fall whether the state constitution should declare that life begins when a human egg is fertilized, throwing up another obstacle for the "personhood" movement. -- Good.
Pharyngula: A quick peek at the future Louisiana science curriculum
Alternet: Progressive Candidate Darcy Burner: How I Became the Target of a Right-Wing Smear Campaign
After giving a speech about the politics of abortion, Burner became the target of a dishonest campaign cooked up by conservative bloggers.
WomensENews: School Sex Segregation Loses Ground
Sex-stereotyping is rife in single-sex classrooms in U.S. public schools. Boys are encouraged to move around, girls are told to sit still and think in terms of cosmetics and wedding dresses. This is why the ACLU victory in West Virginia is so huge.
Anti-segregationists looking to refute all this got a huge break in 2011 when the prestigious journal Science ran an article by eight prominent scientists entitled "The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling." The lead author on the piece was professor Diane Halpern of Claremont McKenna College, past president of the American Psychological Association.
They wrote that single-sex education in public schools "is deeply misguided and often justified by weak, cherry-picked or misconstrued scientific claims rather than by valid scientific evidence."
And they added, "There is no well-designed research showing that single-sex education improves students' academic performance, but there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism." -- Can I kiss the authors? (this is a favorite rant topic of mine)
JCOnline: Guest column: Why we reject Daniels as Purdue's president
Mitch Daniels’ appointment as president of Purdue shows contempt for many of the people that make up the university and pay taxes and tuition to support it: students and faculty from working families, women, minorities, research scientists, environmentalists, gays and lesbians.
IO9: Beautiful prosthetic legs that are made to be seen
IO9: Researchers create a new male contraceptive that you apply like lotion -- interesting, although I'm more hopeful overall about RISUG
WashingtonPost: Washington state provides case study on effects of heath-care reform
Salon: Science or sex: Which does the right hate more?
Parents and right-wingers revolt when a teacher dares answer fifth-graders' questions with honesty and respect
SherrodBrown: OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED: A Constitutional Amendment
SeedCulture: Three hundred people–indigenous Amazonians, fishers and farmers, Earth defenders–gathered on June 15 to symbolically free the Xingu River by digging a channel through the earthen precursor to the Belo Monte Dam. They then planted 500 açai palms to protect the banks of their disrupted river.
ONTD_Science: Prehistoric cave paintings ANIMATED under flicker of torchlight
ONTD_Science: Monsanto's new DroughtGuard crop more expensive and less drought tolerant than traditional crops
ITakeUpSpace: Dear APA: Fat Is Not a Symptom or a Disease
Confusion over risks, symptoms and causes leads to bad practice.
MSN: Belly 'Membrane' May Regulate Immune System, Mouse Study Finds
ScientificAmerican: Opinion: FDA’s decision on BPA exposes Catch 22
Telegraph: Popularity of woollen coffins soars
Sales of woollen coffins have risen by 700 per cent over the last year as Britons opt for more environmentally friendly burials.
FatHeffalump: EMBRACING THE RIDICULOUS AND REJECTING RIDICULE
NYTimes: Our Animal Natures
AS an attending physician at U.C.L.A., I see a wide variety of maladies. But I also consult occasionally at the Los Angeles Zoo, where the veterinarians’ rounds are strikingly similar to those I conduct with my physician colleagues. Intrigued by the overlap, I began making careful notes of the conditions I came across by day in my human patients. At night, I combed veterinary databases and journals for their correlates, asking myself a simple question: “Do animals get [fill in the disease]?” I started with the big killers. Do animals get breast cancer? Stress-induced heart attacks? Brain tumors? How about shingles and gout? Fainting spells? Night after night, condition after condition, the answer kept coming back “yes.” My research yielded a series of fascinating commonalities.
RHRealityCheck: Women Deserve Factual Medical Information, About Everything Including Abortion Care
OurBodiesOurselves: Some Vaginal Meshes for Prolapse Coming Off the Market; FDA Expresses Safety Concerns About These Devices
ONTD_Political: Muxes: A Third Gender in Oaxaca, Mexico
ThinkProgress: ‘Brave’s Merida, and Why We Need to Stop Equating Gender Performance and Sexual Orientation
