{"id":3404,"date":"2009-02-11T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/11\/links-for-2009-02-11\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T04:00:24","slug":"links-for-2009-02-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/11\/links-for-2009-02-11\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-02-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=708\">Fish Food \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Let me add to the \u00e2\u0080\u009cStanley Fish is just kind of pathetic\u00e2\u0080\u009d dogpile a bit here. In many ways, Fish\u00e2\u0080\u0099s latest column kind of reveals just how naked the emperor has become when it comes to hack complaints about the leftist intolerant academic-freedom abusing groupthink academy. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/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:\/\/biocurious.com\/impact-factors-and-physical-review-letters\">Biocurious: Impact factors and Physical Review Letters<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;An editorial titled Is PRL Too Large to Have an \u00e2\u0080\u0098\u00e2\u0080\u0098Impact\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u0099? in this week\u00e2\u0080\u0099s PRL addresses some of the issues surrounding the journal and the impact factor. Not surprising to me, that single number fails to tell the whole story.&quot;<\/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\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journals\">journals<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/morningcoffeephysics.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/09\/lets-get-philosophical-whats-your-existential-preference\/\">Let\u00e2\u0080\u0099s get philosophical: what\u00e2\u0080\u0099s your existential preference? \u00c2\u00ab Morning Coffee Physics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Which description of reality are you (secretly?) cheering for? Are you more comfortable with the completely non-random deterministic view of the world, or are you instead enjoying the idea of a world built on random behaviour?&quot;<\/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\/quantum\">quantum<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/02\/50-states.html\">slacktivist: 50 states<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[P]eople going around saying things like &quot;government is the problem&quot; are either complete idiots or, at best, people who don&#8217;t bother thinking things through with enough effort to avoid sounding like complete idiots. When they say &quot;government is the problem&quot; what they&#8217;re really saying is &quot;Having a state police force is the problem.&quot; Having a justice system is the problem. Having schools is the problem. Providing care for the indigent elderly and the physically or developmentally disabled is the problem. Public transportation is the problem. This is what they&#8217;re saying, whether or not they care enough to realize that this is what they&#8217;re saying. And what they&#8217;re saying is indefensible and abysmally stupid.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fish Food \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted &quot;Let me add to the \u00e2\u0080\u009cStanley Fish is just kind of pathetic\u00e2\u0080\u009d dogpile a bit here. In many ways, Fish\u00e2\u0080\u0099s latest column kind of reveals just how naked the emperor has become when it comes to hack complaints about the leftist intolerant academic-freedom abusing groupthink academy. &quot; (tags: stupid academia&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/11\/links-for-2009-02-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-02-11<\/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-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","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=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}