Category: Links Dump

News: The Education/Religion Connection – Inside Higher Ed "For years, a commonly held belief has been that more educated Americans are less likely to embrace religion. But an article forthcoming (abstract available here) in The Review of Religious Research suggests that the relationship between education and faith is more nuanced, and that more education has… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-09

Chuck Klosterman on Planet of the Apes and Project Nim – Grantland I’m a pretty massive Planet of the Apes fan, even though I’m never able to watch an entire Planet of the Apes movie without reading a magazine. It’s definitely my favorite film franchise that’s 80 percent boring. I really, really love the first… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-06

Chuck Klosterman on the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction – Grantland "[T]hat’s what’s so weird about the whole Hall of Fame process: The public sees it as an argument, but — within the mind of the elite athlete — it must be one of the most confusing, painfully personal scenarios they’ll ever experience. Being… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-05

The science and magic of beer | Andy Connelly | Science | guardian.co.uk "Beer is the juice of grain skilfully treated: it is liquid bread. The first people to make beers as we know them today were the Sumerians, who cultivated cereal grains specifically for brewing and drank beer to honour their gods. Many cultures… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-04

The Worlds Weirdest Book A truly unique work of fiction, ‘The Codex Seraphinianus‘ is a book that appears to be a visual encyclopedia of some unknown world or dimension. Written down in one of that worlds beautiful curving languages, the book by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini, explains the odd inhabitants and… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-03

The Virtuosi: Physics in Sports: The Fosbury Flop “Physics has greatly influenced the progress of most sports. There have been continual improvements in equipment for safety or performance as well as improvements in technique. I’d like to talk about some physics in sports over a series of posts. Here I’ll talk about a technique improvement… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-02

(The semi-automatic method I’ve been using to post Links Dumps has broken, so here’s a hand-edited version of what I’ve tagged for the last few days. Suggestions of alternative automated ways to post tagged links are welcome in comments.) Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings — Crooked Timber "vi: Moria Like Fangorn, ancient… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-01

Design View / Andy Rutledge – News Redux “Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken. Almost all news organizations have abandoned reporting in favor of editorial; have cultivated reader opinion in place of responsibility; and have traded ethical standards for misdirection and whatever consensus defines as forgivable. And this is before you even… Continue reading Links for 2011-07-29

How to turn the GOP into a party of liberals – War Room – Salon.com “July 28, 2011: Barack Obama announces he’s had second thoughts, now fully endorses Boehner debt ceiling plan, “Cut, Cap and Balance,” and Reid plan. His new bottom line? He’ll accept anything Congress can pass, as long as it isn’t just… Continue reading Links for 2011-07-28

Workers of the world unite | slacktivist “So the NFL lockout has ended in some kind of deal that I would summarize here except that the details of professional sports contract negotiations make my eyes glaze over and, since I’m no longer getting paid to edit NFL labor stories for a daily paper, I’ve reverted… Continue reading Links for 2011-07-27