Political Science is Not Alone

Via "Scott Aaronson":http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1340, Congressional pushback against NSF funding "has expanded":http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/04/nsf-peer-review-under-scrutiny-b.html

Potpourri

* "The New York Times makes up lots of trends":http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/12/new-york-times-trends-women-5379.html

Television as educator

The Kaiser Foundation "reports the results":http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080916/pl_usnw/unique_experiment_finds_health_content_placed_in_grey___s_anatomy_episode_quadrupled_awareness_among_audience__over_eight_milli of an interesting experiment.

Yellow dogs no more

"This one's for Lee":http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-pets-and-politics: bq. If the presidential election goes