{"id":3362,"date":"2009-01-29T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/links-for-2009-01-29\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T04:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T04:00:23","slug":"links-for-2009-01-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/links-for-2009-01-29\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-01-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2009-01\/uoc--aga012309.php\">Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The researchers used NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Space Telescope to obtain infrared measurements of the heat emanating from the planet as it whipped behind and close to its star. In just six hours, the planet&#8217;s temperature rose from 800 to 1,500 Kelvin (980 to 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit). &quot;<\/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\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/planets\">planets<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=12569\">Tor.com \/ Science fiction and fantasy \/ Blog posts \/ Real world reading for fantasy writers<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Yesterday, on the Deerskin thread, Mary Frances passed on Lois Bujold\u00e2\u0080\u0099s recommendation of Women\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber. I immediately rushed to the library to get it, and so far it seems really good. The thing with books like this is that the details of how people lived in the past, and particularly the details of how they actually did everyday things, are absolutely invaluable for building fantasy worlds. You don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t want a fantasy world to be exactly like history, of course, but much better that than it should be derived from Hollywood and from other fantasy books. History is real and solid, and if you know it you can make changes from a point of knowledge, not ignorance. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/bookstore-conundrum.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: The Bookstore Conundrum<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Why haven&#8217;t colleges given up the bookstore ghost<br \/>\naltogether and simply set up a link on their home page to an Amazon<br \/>\nsite listing all of the texts that students should buy? (Or Alibris,<br \/>\nor Powells, or whatever.) Surely these bookstores don&#8217;t earn money,<br \/>\nand their nontextbook revenue streams (shot glasses, beer steins,<br \/>\ncorkscrews, and sweatshirts) could be housed in smaller and even more<br \/>\nprofitable-per-square-foot stores.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2009\/01\/factoids-about-schrodingers-cat.html\">Physics Buzz: Factoids about Schr\u00c3\u00b6dinger\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Cat<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;By cruel twist of fate, the use of &quot;factoid&quot; has been distorted to the point where its original meaning has been obscured. Over the years it&#8217;s been misused (usually by the media ironically) to the point where if you look the definition of this troublesome word up in the dictionary today, the two definitions you are presented with are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. A piece of unverified or inaccurate information<br \/>\n2. A brief, somewhat interesting fact.&quot;<\/p><\/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\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/language\">language<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truecostofcredit.com\/\">The True Cost of Credit | What does your card cost?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;When you use your credit card&#8230;<br \/>\nHow much does it cost the merchant to process the transaction? &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet &quot;The researchers used NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Space Telescope to obtain infrared measurements of the heat emanating from the planet as it whipped behind and close to its star. In just six hours, the planet&#8217;s temperature rose from 800 to 1,500 Kelvin (980 to 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/links-for-2009-01-29\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-01-29<\/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-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","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=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}