{"id":3291,"date":"2009-01-07T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/07\/links-for-20090107\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T04:00:22","slug":"links-for-20090107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/07\/links-for-20090107\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-01-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/digitalbio\/2009\/01\/another_reason_why_science_edu.php\">Discovering Biology in a Digital World : Another reason why science education sucks<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;According to the article almost 40% of the 59 science education specialists, surveyed in the California University system, were &quot;seriously considering leaving&quot; their current jobs and some (20%) were considering leaving the field entirely.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v457\/n7225\/abs\/nature07624.html\">Squeezing and over-squeezing of triphotons : Abstract : Nature<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The paper mentioned in the press release below.<\/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\/articles\">articles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2009-01\/uot-uot010609.php\">U of T physicists squeeze light to quantum limit<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">An amusingly garbled press release about some interesting quantum optics results.<\/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\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/01\/spitzer_lets_condemn_the_human_race_to_slavery_and_extinction.php\">Matthew Yglesias \u00c2\u00bb Spitzer: Let&#8217;s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;After the human race is enslaved by robots, there are going to be small rebel groups hiding out somewhere and Elliot Spitzer&#8217;s going to be writing op-eds about how &#8220;no one could have predicted&#8221; that the robots would rebel and overthrow their masters. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2009-01\/nsfc-nft010609.php\">NASA&#8217;s Fermi telescope unveils a dozen new pulsars<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;NASA&#8217;s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others. The finds are transforming our understanding of how these stellar cinders work.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We know of 1,800 pulsars, but until Fermi we saw only little wisps of energy from all but a handful of them,&quot; says Roger Romani of Stanford University, Calif. &quot;Now, for dozens of pulsars, we&#8217;re seeing the actual power of these machines.&quot;&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/uses-of-students.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: The Uses of Students<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;She said that while cc grads who transfer to her university do just as well academically as native students, they don&#8217;t donate as much back to the university as alums. They only spent two years there, instead of four, so they don&#8217;t feel the same level of attachment. The university knows that, so it puts a pretty tight lid on transfer admissions. It admits a few students to fill out the numbers in some upper-level courses, but that&#8217;s it. It doesn&#8217;t want to jeopardize the future funding stream from donations.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/01\/06\/stc\">Ignorance About &#8216;Stop the Clock&#8217; Policies :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education&#8217;s Source for News, Views and Jobs<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The best of colleges&#8217; &#8220;family friendly&#8221; policies may be profoundly unfriendly if you tell new parents about them, but not other key people &#8212; such as those who evaluate those new parents for tenure.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/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\/gender\">gender<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/06\/science\/06cook.html?_r=1\">At the Stove, a Dash of Science, a Pinch of Folklore &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I had invited Ms. Corriher [food biochemist] and her husband, Arch, who were in New York from Atlanta for a visit, to dinner to help answer some kitchen curiosities. Cookbooks bark out instructions like boot camp orders &#8212; Add oil to pasta water! Salt the eggplant! Brown meat to seal in juices! &#8212; and legions of home cooks obediently follow them.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered how many of these truisms had a scientific underpinning and how many were but myths.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/chemistry\">chemistry<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovering Biology in a Digital World : Another reason why science education sucks &quot;According to the article almost 40% of the 59 science education specialists, surveyed in the California University system, were &quot;seriously considering leaving&quot; their current jobs and some (20%) were considering leaving the field entirely.&quot; (tags: science education stupid academia) Squeezing and over-squeezing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/07\/links-for-20090107\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-01-07<\/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-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","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=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}