{"id":3410,"date":"2009-02-12T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/links-for-2009-02-12\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T14:05:00","slug":"links-for-2009-02-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/links-for-2009-02-12\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-02-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=717\">Different Cliffs, Different Bottoms, Different Parachutes \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;If one of the goals of stimulus is to get American consumers shopping again, then I think it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s going to take some substantial changes to the entire retail landscape for that to be more than a momentary upward blip in a relentlessly downward spiral. And at least some of those changes will involve rethinking the size, scale and ubiquity of retailing.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/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\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/02\/11\/stereotype\">Are College Athletes Psyching Themselves Out? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education&#8217;s Source for News, Views and Jobs<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;More than a year ago, a major study of 71 Division III member institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association documented a significant academic achievement gap separating male athletes and non-athletes at selective liberal arts colleges. Although admissions practices \u00e2\u0080\u0094 potentially biased in favor of enrolling athletes \u00e2\u0080\u0094 might be to blame for this gap, a new study suggests that the perceived threat among athletes of confirming the negative stereotype of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cdumb jock\u00e2\u0080\u009d might also help perpetuate the gap.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/diversity\">diversity<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dotphys.net\/2009\/02\/thoughts-on-school-science-fairs\/\">Thoughts on school science fairs | Dot Physics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;If I were in charge of science fairs (clearly, I am not), I would make the primary goal to be the promotion of science and to give students a chance to do some real science. I guess this is the goal of the actual science fairs. However, I really don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t think science fairs promote sound understanding of the nature of science.&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\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2009\/02\/09\/evolutions-influence-in-pulp-fiction\/\">Evolution\u00e2\u0080\u0099s influence in pulp fiction! \u00c2\u00ab Skulls in the Stars<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;As my tribute to the memory of Darwin, I thought I\u00e2\u0080\u0099d take a look at some of the references to evolution in science fiction and horror in the years following its discovery!  We\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll look at stories from almost the time of the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859) to the 1930s.  This list is by no means exhaustive, but represents some of the tales I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve come across recently.&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\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different Cliffs, Different Bottoms, Different Parachutes \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted &quot;If one of the goals of stimulus is to get American consumers shopping again, then I think it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s going to take some substantial changes to the entire retail landscape for that to be more than a momentary upward blip in a relentlessly downward spiral. And at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/12\/links-for-2009-02-12\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-02-12<\/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-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","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=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}