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• ► 2010
  • ► August (2)
  • • The biology blog at Biotunes had this one right years ago
    • More evidence that more screening = more cancer
  • ► June (2)
  • • Reliance on high-tech imaging = short-cut medical care?
    • The cost implications of health care reform
  • ► May (1)
  • • When will sociologists learn some sociobiology?
  • ► April (2)
  • • More PowerPoint means less brain power
    • Should breast cancer patients eat or avoid phytoestrogens?
  • ► March (5)
  • • A good day for science and medicine
    • More climate change lies!
    • Universal health care reduces abortion rate?
    • Carnival round-up
    • Sociobiology shows us why racial integration is so hard, and so important
  • ► February (3)
  • • Scientists may be ideological, but science is not
    • On scientists, the internet, and viral science denialism
    • Estrogen and cancer
  • ► January (2)
  • • Cancer drug companies' worst nightmare
    • The food on your table might create more invasive species
• ► 2009
  • ► December (2)
  • • Does Fosamax prevent breast cancer?
    • Prostate cancer update: Discuss delaying treatment with your doctor
  • ► November (3)
  • • The USPSTF deals with data, not hyperbole
    • Myriad Genetics did not create the BRCA gene. Evolution did.
    • Changing the cancer culture
  • ► October (3)
  • • If only health care were all about economics
    • Take lymphedema-prevention instructions with a grain of salt
    • Pathogen Art
  • ► September (1)
  • • Paper or plastic?
  • ► August (2)
  • • Do honeybees have AIDS?
    • The irrational roots of resistance to change
  • ► July (2)
  • • David Gregory and the quixotic belief in the fictitious ideal
    • An unsustainable obsession
  • ► June (6)
  • • Pharmacology Carnival
    • At least now it's official
    • A cash crop of insanity
    • Don't take multivitamins during chemotherapy
    • There is no cure
    • Order, design, tension, balance, and harmony
  • ► May (9)
  • • Health carnival
    • Will the feds destroy the CRP with continuing ethanol subsidies?
    • Why fear mongering is so successful
    • Carnival of the Green, Scientia Pro Publica #4
    • Tax corn products for health care
    • Bring on the free radicals!
    • Use recyclable, not just renewable, energy
    • This just in! Breast-feeding causes world peace!
    • May Carnivals
  • ► April (4)
  • • Starvation never felt so good
    • Vitamins are not food
    • Seasonal Tunes
    • Cool bugs #10 - Fruit fly parasites
  • ► March (2)
  • • How often is the "cure" worse than the "disease"?
    • Single payer now
  • ► February (3)
  • • Advice for Women carnival
    • Calories and Bad Food
    • Is the main purpose of chemotherapy to make you miserable?
  • ► January (1)
  • • Breasts and Society
• ► 2008
  • ► December (1)
  • • Does mastectomy equal selfectomy?
  • ► November (1)
  • • Most inopportune referendum
  • ► October (1)
  • • Could all states be swing states?
  • ► July (1)
  • • Into the Woods
  • ► June (1)
  • • Rational decision making
  • ► May (1)
  • • Insect Jazz
  • ► April (4)
  • • Stop using antibacterial soaps now. Really.
    • Merck's "fraud" is standard industry practice
    • Your high-fish diet will soon be a thing of the past
    • Economics and the environment, part 2
  • ► March (4)
  • • Heterosexual marriage should not be legal
    • We won't fix math education without fixing math stigma
    • Economics and the environment, part 1
    • Adapt public education to individuals, not demographics
  • ► February (5)
  • • Teen sex - is it bad or good for society?
    • Diet Soda is Clearly an Evil Plot to Kill Us All
    • The biofuels problem explained - Part 2
    • The biofuels problem explained - Part 1
    • Climate change + fire suppression = ecological disaster?
  • ► January (1)
  • • Do we have too many 'liberal' professors?
• ► 2007
  • ► December (3)
  • • It's not about genetics
    • The Continuing Misuse of Body Mass Index
    • Keep the invasives out of your communities
  • ► November (3)
  • • The problems with twins
    • Predator-avoidance behavior in smoke alarms
    • Politics and Biology, Part 2
  • ► October (8)
  • • Jeni Fleming Trio - Minimalist Jazz
    • Politics and Biology, Part 1
    • Tangled Bank #91
    • You are responsible for how your children eat
    • A hopeful new direction for U.S.F.S. land management
    • Entomologists and Basketball Players
    • Why the public doesn't get science
    • Cool Bugs #9 - Acacia ants
  • ► September (3)
  • • Alcohol and pregnancy - what do we really know?
    • How could those fat friends of mine do this to me?!
    • One Parrot a Career Makes
  • ► August (4)
  • • Are transgenders a product of rigid societal norms?
    • Can we be honest about what is science?
    • Sleep problems and ADHD - chicken and egg?
    • Infant toilet training is a valid option
  • ► July (6)
  • • Mathematics, Rules, and Sociality
    • Parenthood is all about Me
    • Is the triple screen for Down Syndrome right for you?
    • We need biological control agents that work
    • Mathematics and quilting
    • Circus of the Spineless #22
  • ► June (7)
  • • Much ado about IQ
    • Cool Bugs #8 - Carnivorous Hawaiian caterpillars
    • Tangled Bank #82
    • The misplaced Avandia hysteria
    • Folic acid, that miracle vitamin
    • The "opt out" myth
    • Encephalon #24
  • ► May (9)
  • • Altruism is just another way to be selfish
    • Carnival of the Godless #67
    • Cool Bugs #7 - Pipevine swallowtail
    • Tangled Bank #80
    • Obesity: Are genes or lifestyle more important?
    • Oekologie # 5 is up
    • If humans were marsupials
    • Cool Bugs #6 - Trap-jaw ants
    • The truth about E. coli and cattle feed
  • ► April (14)
  • • Some cool 'Tunes
    • Tangled Bank is up!
    • Plant (non-invasive) trees this Arbor Day
    • Encephalon 21
    • The Curse reversed - decades late
    • Cool Bugs #5 - Belostomatidae
    • The impersistence of memory
    • Oekologie carnival
    • Cell phone use and bees
    • Is BSE risk a legitimate concern?
    • Multitasking is a Myth
    • Cool Bugs #4 - Diachasmimorpha juglandis
    • Is music a language? (Part 2)
    • Is music a language? (Part 1)
  • ► March (12)
  • • German Super Baby Revisited
    • More on the western "drought"
    • Morality is not a human construct
    • Cool Bugs #3 - Fly wasp mimics
    • Cry, Baby, Cry
    • The definition of "drought"
    • Each generation, a new forest
    • Atheism: The Next Evolutionary Step
    • Some of my favorite people
    • Cool Bugs #2 - Rhagoletis juglandis
    • Hiking the Alaka`i Swamp - Part 2
    • Bees to their knees
  • ► February (14)
  • • Hiking the Alaka`i Swamp - Part 1
    • A is for Amygdala
    • The flowers are down in flames
    • Scrotology
    • Cool Bugs #1 - Myrmecocystus mexicanus
    • Musician, Heal Thyself
    • The Spirit of Biotunes
    • The U.S.D.A. loves G.M.O's - but does the environment?
    • Black-and-white cats and yellow flies
    • The ants go marching
    • Insula a factor in autism?
    • Are humans natural?
    • Fireworks Pollution
    • Choose your seeds carefully this spring
  • ► January (2)
  • • Science, Politics, Media and Diet
    • Mainstream science reporting is generally untrustworthy
• ► 2006
  • ► December (1)
  • • How much of a Neanderthal is your mate?
  • ► November (3)
  • • Is your baby a German Super Baby?
    • Border fence would be an ecological disaster
    • Introduction