{"id":3576,"date":"2009-04-08T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/08\/links-for-2009-04-08\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T05:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T05:00:53","slug":"links-for-2009-04-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/08\/links-for-2009-04-08\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-04-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/news\/index.php?id=6263&amp;utm_source=pm&amp;utm_medium=en\">Brigham Young U.&#8217;s Student Newspaper Is Pulled After Embarrassing\u00c2\u00a0Typo &#8211; Chronicle.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The caption described a photograph illustrating the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\u00e2\u0080\u0099 General Conference, and it referred to the group\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cQuorum of Twelve Apostates\u00e2\u0080\u009d rather than \u00e2\u0080\u009cApostles.\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Rich Evans, editorial manager of The Daily Universe, the student paper, told the Tribune it was \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe worst possible mistake.\u00e2\u0080\u009d BYU is owned and run by the church, as the Mormon Church is formally known.<\/p>\n<p>The error was an accident: A student had misspelled the word \u00e2\u0080\u009capostle,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and the article\u00e2\u0080\u0099s editor chose the wrong word from among the options offered by spell-checking software.&quot;<\/p><\/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\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/N\/DS\/s.php?s=8336\">Nobel Prize winner Martin L. Perl to receive honorary degree at commencement<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Working in the electron tube production factory led him to what he considers a major turning point in his life \u00e2\u0080\u0093 taking atomic physics and advanced calculus at Union to deepen his understanding of electron vacuum tubes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cI got to know a wonderful physics professor, Vladimir Rojansky,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Perl writes in his official biography. \u00e2\u0080\u009cOne day he said to me \u00e2\u0080\u0098Martin, what you are interested in is called physics, not chemistry!\u00e2\u0080\u0099 At the age of 23, I finally decided to begin the study of physics.\u00e2\u0080\u009d&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\/academia\">academia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=04&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=will_this_be_worse_than_the_de\">EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Again with the dreadful charts. Are descriptive labels really too much to ask for? Also, wouldn&#8217;t you expect modern telecommunications and globalization to lead to faster declines in things like stock markets?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/bloggingheads\">bloggingheads<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/ezra-klein\">ezra-klein<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2066\">Swans on Tea \u00c2\u00bb Rolling, Rolling, Rolling<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;You have two cans, one filled with ice and the other with liquid, but otherwise identical. The cans are rolled down an incline. Which one reaches the bottom first? &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\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/swans-on-tea\">swans-on-tea<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/opinion\/stop_anthropomorphizing_me?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">Stop Anthropomorphizing Me | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I know this is going to come across a bit harsh, but I want to get straight to the point. Speaking on behalf of myself and all other completely nonhuman members of my species, I must insist that the practice of anthropomorphizing us stops right now.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a human. I am a dog. I can&#8217;t talk. I can&#8217;t say a full sentence. Not even close. I can&#8217;t experience complex emotions, I can&#8217;t laugh, I can&#8217;t rob a bank, and I have no idea that my name is Gerald. 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