{"id":3711,"date":"2009-05-28T05:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T05:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/28\/links-for-2009-05-28\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T05:01:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T05:01:12","slug":"links-for-2009-05-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/28\/links-for-2009-05-28\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-05-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2009\/05\/27\/race-and-the-full-court-press\/\">Race and the Full Court Press at Racialicious &#8211; the intersection of race and pop culture<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A good piece on the creepy racial subtext of that Malcolm Gladwell article. (I can stop posting about that any time I want to. Really.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/basketball\">basketball<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/men.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Men<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I mentioned a little while back that it&#8217;s raining men here. The percentage of male students here has been climbing for the last several years, and the recession seems to be giving it a conspicuous boost. Male students are still a minority, though mostly in the over-21 age group. In the traditional-age cohort, it&#8217;s almost even. I&#8217;ve asked our local IR people to run some numbers, since we have several trends going on simultaneously, and I&#8217;m not sure how they&#8217;re related: our students are getting younger, more male, and more non-white. I&#8217;m not sure if, say, &#8216;more male&#8217; is mostly a function of &#8216;younger,&#8217; or if the trends are independent. Anecdotally, it seems like the age shift is driving everything else, but I couldn&#8217;t prove it at this point.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/mclemee\/mclemee243\">Views: Kass Backwards &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Last week Leon Kass, chairman of the Council of Bioethics under President Bush, took to the podium to deliver the Jefferson Lecture of the National Endowment for the Humanities &#8212; an event I did not go to, though it was covered by one of IHE&#8217;s intrepid reporters.<\/p>\n<p>My reluctance to attend suggests that, without noticing it, I have come to accept Kass\u00e2\u0080\u0099s best-known idea, \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe wisdom of repugnance.\u00e2\u0080\u009d There is, alas, all too little evidence I am getting any wiser with age &#8212; but my visceral aversion to hearing a Bush appointee talk about human values is inarguable.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/ethics\">ethics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/evil\">evil<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/inside-higher-ed\">inside-higher-ed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/06\/01\/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all\">Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting &amp; Essays: The New Yorker<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe greatest threat to America\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fiscal health is not Social Security,\u00e2\u0080\u009d President Barack Obama said in a March speech at the White House. \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not the investments that we\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve made to rescue our economy during this crisis. By a wide margin, the biggest threat to our nation\u00e2\u0080\u0099s balance sheet is the skyrocketing cost of health care. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not even close.\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The question we\u00e2\u0080\u0099re now frantically grappling with is how this came to be, and what can be done about it. McAllen, Texas, the most expensive town in the most expensive country for health care in the world, seemed a good place to look for some answers.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/health-care\">health-care<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/26\/on_the_uselessness_of_the_msds.php\">On the Uselessness of the MSDS. In the Pipeline:<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;There has to be a better way &#8211; you&#8217;d think, at any rate. But the MSDS is lawyer language, when you get right down to it, and there&#8217;s the problem. Trying to insulate everyone from liability is not something that can be done simultaneously with trying to inform people in case of an emergency. Very few chemists, in my experience, spend much time with these forms at all, preferring to get their information from almost any other source. There has to be a better way.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/chemistry\">chemistry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/in-the-pipeline\">in-the-pipeline<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race and the Full Court Press at Racialicious &#8211; the intersection of race and pop culture A good piece on the creepy racial subtext of that Malcolm Gladwell article. (I can stop posting about that any time I want to. Really.) (tags: race culture sports basketball society) Confessions of a Community College Dean: Men &quot;I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/05\/28\/links-for-2009-05-28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-05-28<\/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-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","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=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}