{"id":3448,"date":"2009-02-27T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/27\/links-for-2009-02-27\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:00:22","slug":"links-for-2009-02-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/27\/links-for-2009-02-27\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-02-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/26\/362-greek-to-me-mapping-mutual-incomprehension\/\">362 &#8211; Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension \u00c2\u00ab Strange Maps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;&quot;Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph?\u00e2\u0080\u009d Well apparently there has, even if only perfunctorily, and the result is this cartogram.<\/p>\n<p>When a Hellenophone has trouble understanding something, his or her preferred languages of reference, as far as incomprehension is concerned, are Arabic and Chinese. And while for Arabs the proverbial unintelligible language is Hindi, for Chinese it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\u00e2\u0080\u00a6 the language of Heaven.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/language\">language<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Uncertain-Principles\/dp\/B000NOKMKG\/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1235706910&amp;sr=1-21\">Amazon.com: Uncertain Principles: The Kindle Store<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I can&#8217;t obsessively check the Amazon rank for my book, yet, but at least I can practice on the blog&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2212106\">Can Michael Lewis&#8217; Shane Battier article make me a better pickup basketball player? &#8211; By Dan Kois &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Armed with real data and the Michael Lewis imprimatur, I took the court in my weekly pickup game in a church gym in Arlington, Va., with a new mantra: What Would Shane Battier Do? No longer did my Rec Specs-brand prescription goggles suggest unathletic gooniness (&quot;When I saw those, I thought you might be able to shoot the 3, but I was wrong,&quot; a teenager once told me); now they simply meant that I could outthink my opponents, even if I couldn&#8217;t outplay them. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/basketball\">basketball<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/greengabbro\/2009\/02\/the_stimulating_effects_of_mon.php\">Green Gabbro : The Stimulating Effects of Monitoring Volcanoes<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[F]orget what Jindal did or did not say, or mean to say, or imply &#8211; his big flop is yesterday&#8217;s news now. Considering the argument that volcano monitoring does not belong in the stimulus bill on its own merits&#8230; I just don&#8217;t get it.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <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\/geology\">geology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>362 &#8211; Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension \u00c2\u00ab Strange Maps &quot;&quot;Has there been a study of this phrase phenomenon, relating different languages on some kind of Directed Graph?\u00e2\u0080\u009d Well apparently there has, even if only perfunctorily, and the result is this cartogram. 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