{"id":2990,"date":"2008-09-30T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/30\/links-for-20080930\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T05:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T05:00:32","slug":"links-for-20080930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/30\/links-for-20080930\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-09-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/popdose.com\/the-three-strikes-rule-a-tribute-to-paul-newman\/\">A Tribute to Paul Newman | Popdose<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;What the world will miss most about Paul Newman isn&#8217;t his artistry as an actor and a director, both of stage and film, but it is his kindness and all-around stature as a good man.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/29\/education\/29admissions.html?ex=1380427200&amp;en=fd5c69524d0a2e5e&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">Study of Standardized Admissions Tests Is Big Draw at College Conference &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[William] Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions at Harvard, led a commission of college admissions officials who drafted the study, which challenges colleges and universities to examine their use of the SAT and ACT and to consider whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages or whether they can make the tests optional for admissions.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/portrait-of-elephant-as-young-astronaut.html\">Fafblog! the whole world&#8217;s only source for Fafblog.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Years later the elephant finds God orbiting a gas giant in a nearby solar system.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/fafblog\">fafblog<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/482\/\">xkcd &#8211; A Webcomic &#8211; Height<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Powers of Ten,&quot; xkcd style.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/xkcd\">xkcd<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tribute to Paul Newman | Popdose &quot;What the world will miss most about Paul Newman isn&#8217;t his artistry as an actor and a director, both of stage and film, but it is his kindness and all-around stature as a good man.&quot; (tags: movies society culture) Study of Standardized Admissions Tests Is Big Draw at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/30\/links-for-20080930\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2008-09-30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}