{"id":3684,"date":"2009-05-15T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/15\/links-for-2009-05-15\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T05:00:43","slug":"links-for-2009-05-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/15\/links-for-2009-05-15\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-05-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/05\/14\/peers\">News: Students as Lemmings &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;The researchers find &quot;clear evidence that peer driven students on average perform worse than the ability driven in terms of both average and final grade,&quot; though they acknowledge that the &quot;effect is small in magnitude&quot; &#8212; about two-tenths of a grade point on a 30 point grade scale.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <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\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/inside-higher-ed\">inside-higher-ed<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dotphys.net\/2009\/05\/dear-mythbusters-please-share-your-data\/\">Mythbusters, please share your data | Dot Physics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Taking the &quot;Open Science&quot; movement to television&#8230;<\/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\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dot-physics\">dot-physics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/05\/14\/rules-for-time-travelers\/\">Rules for Time Travelers | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;0. There are no paradoxes.<\/p>\n<p>    This is the overarching rule, to which all other rules are subservient. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not a statement about physics; it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s simply a statement about logic. In the actual world, true paradoxes \u00e2\u0080\u0094 events requiring decidable propositions to be simultaneously true and false \u00e2\u0080\u0094 do not occur. Anything that looks like it would be a paradox if it happened indicates either that it won\u00e2\u0080\u0099t happen, or our understanding of the laws of nature is incomplete. Whatever laws of nature the builder of fictional worlds decides to abide by, they must not allow for true paradoxes.&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\/time\">time<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cosmic-variance\">cosmic-variance<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Students as Lemmings &#8211; Inside Higher Ed &quot;The researchers find &quot;clear evidence that peer driven students on average perform worse than the ability driven in terms of both average and final grade,&quot; though they acknowledge that the &quot;effect is small in magnitude&quot; &#8212; about two-tenths of a grade point on a 30 point grade&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/15\/links-for-2009-05-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-05-15<\/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-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}