{"id":3602,"date":"2009-04-17T19:19:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/17\/links-for-2009-04-17\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T19:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:19:50","slug":"links-for-2009-04-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/17\/links-for-2009-04-17\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-04-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/north-of-the-border-case-file-135-canadian-bacon,26706\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">North Of The Border Case File #135: Canadian Bacon\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 | DVD | A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Just as Ned Flanders likes Woody Allen movies except for \u00e2\u0080\u009cthat nervous fella that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s always in them,\u00e2\u0080\u009d I like Michael Moore movies and kind of hate Michael Moore himself. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kschroeder.com\/weblog\/archive\/2009\/04\/16\/solar-power-sats-get-real-and-more-on-the-verne\">Solar power sats get real; and more on the Verne gun \u00e2\u0080\u0094 KarlSchroeder.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Solaren corporation has signed a deal with Pacific Gas &amp; Electric to orbit a 200 megawatt solar power satellite by 2016.  I mention this not because the news is amazing (it was inevitable, really) but because their plan gives me some nice numbers to plug into my Verne gun calculations. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=797\">Show Me the Money \u00c2\u00ab Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I think most academics are less prepared or willing to talk about the cost\/benefit side of these decisions. That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s partly because we often have restricted access to all the information needed to assess particular budgetary decisions, and so we aver having a strong opinion. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s partly because we\u00e2\u0080\u0099re anxious (properly) that the language of cost\/benefit can easily be misused to vulgar or destructive ends, that it proposes a false equivalence between businesses and universities.<\/p>\n<p>That said, in a small undergraduate college where teaching is the priority, here\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a couple of basic cost\/benefit principles about faculty work that seem to me to be very important.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/easily-distracted\">easily-distracted<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/16\/fashion\/16firstdog.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Does Bo Know He\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the President\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Dog? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Emmy says yes, and adds that you can&#8217;t trust those dogs. Dogs who aren&#8217;t her.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/animals\">animals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dog\">dog<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2009-04\/osu-oci040809.php\">1 class increases odds of college graduation for struggling students<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;A researcher at Ohio State University has developed a course on learning and motivation strategies that actually increases the odds that struggling first-year students will graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Students in academic difficulty who took the &quot;Learning and Motivation Strategies&quot; course in their first quarter at Ohio State were about 45 percent more likely to graduate within six years than similar students who didn&#8217;t take the class.<\/p>\n<p>Average-ability students who took the course were also six times more likely to stay in college for a second year and had higher grade point averages than those who didn&#8217;t take the class.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/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\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/statshot\/what_are_we_twittering?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">What Are We Twittering? | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Still using Twitter.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/onion\">onion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Of The Border Case File #135: Canadian Bacon\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 | DVD | A.V. 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