Your Monkey's Link-Fu is Not Strong....

I have many links held open in my browser. Some are intended for blogging, some are just things I'm interested in, some are articles I want to read or show people. The list might give you some insight into what kind of research I do and how I absorb information. This is maybe a bit more than a typical day's take from The Google, Google Reader, email lists, and other sources.

Flu
A Heuristic Indication and Warning Model for Detection and Assessment of Biological Events
Four-year-old could hold key in search for source of swine flu outbreak
New flu virus may be a real mongrel: study
World fights new flu virus with latest science
Trial by fire: New antibody method gets big test
WHO says existing vaccine little use against new flu
Flu pandemic still likely but Mexico toll drops
Mexico plea as virus 'stabilises'
Alberta pigs likely infected with flu from worker: CFIA official
'Draconian' powers seen to contain swine flu
Mexican officials say swine flu virus not as lethal as once thought
Influenza A(H1N1)
Influenza-like illness in the United States and Mexico
Swine flu illness in the United States and Mexico -- update 2
Swine influenza -- update 3
Swine influenza -- update 4
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 5
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 6
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 7
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 8.1
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 9
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 10
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 11
Influenza A(H1N1) -- update 12

Oil & Gas
Peak Oil is Bullsh**
Crude Oil $200, the Price for Wasting Financial Crisis Opportunity
Wasting a Good Crisis: Result -- $200 Oil
Non-OPEC production has likely peaked, oil output could fall by 30 million bpd by 2015
Oil settles above $53; manufacturing declines slow
Mechanics of Future Oil Price Volatility (A Flubber Cobweb)
Predator-Prey Dynamics in Demand Destruction and Oil Prices
Oil Demand Destruction & Brittle Systems
The Marginal BTU -- The Return of the Red Queen?
EROI Update: Preliminary Results using Toe-to-Heel Air Injection
The Crude Oil Deflationary Bear Market
Crude Oil: Changing Expectations

Economic Downturn
If You Believe -- Banks are Recovering
A Tale of Two Depressions
2008 Trends in CEO Pay
Liquidity preference, loanable funds, and Niall Ferguson (wonkish)
Reports say billions in transportation and green spending could add millions of jobs
The Benefits of Public Spending

Politics
Conservatives to Napolitano: Apologize and go home!
Reclaiming America's Soul
Can the United States put pressure on Israel?: A user's guide
CNN's Roesgen grills tea party protestor who calls Obama a "fascist"
Muslims Quietly, Gradually Taking Over Europe and America By Having More Children
Does the Right Need to Play Dirty?
Torture Timeline
Support for terror suspect torture differs among the faithful
What Makes People Vote Republican?
Talking past each other
Ronald Reagan: vengeful, score-settling, Hard Left ideologue
O'Reilly Factor, Ingraham use doctored video to smear Gore
Not My Priorities

Environmentalism / Sustainability / Climate Change
Toxic mining wastes kill tundra swans in Idaho
Polluter Fines Help Pay For Environment Restoration Grants
Australia today offers horrific glimpse of U.S. Southwest, much of planet, post-2040, if we don't slash emissions soon
Where there is no vision, the people perish -- part 1, part 2
The Environmental Inverted Pyramid
Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the U.S. 2007
Greed behind climate crisis, summit delegate argues
An Economics Addition to 'The Transition Handbook'
Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun
Is Scientific Ignorance Environmental Bliss?
Big dams are not sustainable -- but they continue to be built
The Worst Global Crisis of All Time
The Great Reskilling
Crisis Blogging: Opiate of the Masses or Catalyst for Change?
Energy, Transport and Sustainability Changes in the Puget Sound Area
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Compressed Air Energy Storage -- How viable is it?
What does Sustainability Mean for Energy?
"Realists" and "optimists" in the permaculture world
The Budget Artists
U.S. Food Safety No Longer Improving: N.Y. Times
Sustainable Futures 09
The Next 100 Days, Part 2: Bring on the Sizzle
Introduction to Climate Economics
Best PPTs

Other
Tunnel's cost may fool us all
Going (Mostly) Paperless
The Social Function of Vaccine Resisters
Neighbors Go To War Over 4-Year-Old Boy

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Broad Cast 15 January 2009

BROAD CAST 15 JANUARY 2009

Ken Jennings, superstar from Jeopardy (though not our biggest star here at this blog, of course), has his own blog and published the map above, which was created in 1999, probably appearing in Newsweek, and "purports to show Jeopardy! popularity regionally in the U.S".

Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days. Fascinating details about how Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, Fred Rogers, James Thurber, and Joseph Campbell, among others, brought order to their hours.
(Screen capture from 1969-70 television show "My World and Welcome To It", based on life and work of James Thurber.)


For "news junkies and media mavens", Media Bloodhound has created a 2008 Fact or Fiction Challenge, a compilation of quotes and headlines culled from this past year at their blog. The trick is to tell which ones are real and which are satire.


An article by Fred Pearce in Conservation Magazine points out that bananas are "sterile, sexless mutants" which " has been at an evolutionary standstill ever since humans first propagated it in the jungles of Southeast Asia at the end of the last ice age". This means that almost all of us eat only one, massively sprayed variety, the Cavendish. And, as the article points out, it brings to bananas the same mono-crop risk that hit potatoes in Ireland in the 1840s. This plant may be on the verge of extinction. Read more at The Sterile Banana. Also at this site, an article on how the total number of natural disasters has quadrupled in the past two decades at Environmental Refugee Crisis.
(Banana flower before fruit; photo from Beechwell House Garden.)


A study conducted by Freedom to Marry "unequivocally shows" that "voting to support the freedom to marry and opposing anti-marriage measures helps rather than hurts politicians". A review of 1100 legislators' votes from 2005 to the present on laws concerning same-sex marriage and family protection demonstrated they are consistently re-elected. "In fact, these legislators are re-elected no matter what party they represent or if they changed their vote from opposing to supporting marriage equality. Even better, legislators who run for higher office win after voting in favor of marriage for same-sex couples." The study can be downloaded (as a PDF file) here or read online here.
(Card from Stella Marrs.)









The traveling contemporary art exhibition called Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet is a groundbreaking collaboration between museums, artists, and conservationists to bring attention and protection to eight World Heritage sites: Komodo National Park, Indonesia; El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, Mexico; Southeast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil; Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, China; the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador; iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa; Mount Kenya National Park, Kenya; and Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, which straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. The five-year collaboration is between the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, and the environmental organization Rare. Read about what the artists did at these sites at Human/Nature in Orion Magazine online.
(HDR photo of Devils Peak from WebEcoist.)

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