{"id":3793,"date":"2009-06-23T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/23\/links-for-2009-06-23\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T05:01:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:01:19","slug":"links-for-2009-06-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/23\/links-for-2009-06-23\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-06-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=13588\">Cynical-C Blog &#8211; \u00c2\u00bb Sign for the Night<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Keep being AWESOME!&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unscientificamerica.com\/about.php\">Unscientific America<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, a journalist-scientist team, offer an updated &quot;two cultures&quot; polemic for America in the 21st century. Just as in Snow&#8217;s time, some of our gravest challenges\u00e2\u0080\u0094climate change, the energy crisis, national economic competitiveness\u00e2\u0080\u0094and gravest threats&#8211;global pandemics, nuclear proliferation\u00e2\u0080\u0094have fundamentally scientific underpinnings. Yet we still live in a culture that rarely takes science seriously or has it on the radar. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/06\/infinite-pagination.php\">Matthew Yglesias \u00c2\u00bb Infinite Pagination<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Not only is there this problematic lack of bragging, but with the kindle edition of the book I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have a handsome volume laying around the house as if to say to visitors, \u00e2\u0080\u009cwhy, yes, I may be a professional political pundit but I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m also a man of culture.\u00e2\u0080\u009d And I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll have nothing on my shelf. Amazon should at least send you a sticker when you buy a book on Kindle so you can maintain some kind of display wall of all the impressive books you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve read.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/yglesias\">yglesias<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2858\">Swans on Tea \u00c2\u00bb Is it Really Green?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[H]arvesting energy from speed bumps is only green in a very abstract way, since the car is going to speed up again once past it \u00e2\u0080\u0094 you\u00e2\u0080\u0099d be greener by not having the speed bumps there at all, which is one reason why you get better mileage on the highway \u00e2\u0080\u0094 you eliminate those stops and starts. A car that is already going the desired speed is going to surrender energy to the device and slow down even though it didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t need to. Green-wise, you\u00e2\u0080\u0099d be better served with an improved design of the traffic flow. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What they are doing is getting the customers to pay for some of their electricity.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/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:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/before-end-of-world.html\">Fafblog! the whole world&#8217;s only source for Fafblog.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;&quot;Eh, who cares,&quot; says Giblets. &quot;Meanwhile a super-secret rocket ship carrying our best and brightest rich people blasts off from earth to start up a newer, sexier earth in the vastness of space!&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;They are caught by the government of space and deported for overstaying their visas,&quot; says me.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/fafblog\">fafblog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/06\/21\/BA7N18930O.DTL\">City College seeks sponsors to save courses<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Got a spare $6,000?<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Don Griffin at City College of San Francisco suggests using it to rescue an endangered community college class. Contribute and the class will be named for you.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificblogging.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/incredibly_shrinking_supersymmetry\">The Incredibly Shrinking Supersymmetry<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;So, in order to solve the problem of fine tuning of the SM, we have to assume that there exist more than twenty so-far-unseen elementary particles, and that these particles all have masses above our detection limits, but not too much so (lest their mending effect on the fine-tuning becomes more complicated to keep intact). Together with those additional particles, there are at least 105 new unknown parameters to buy in the package, which the theory does not explain: not just the particle masses, but their couplings, mixings, etcetera. A whole new world to explore. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/theory\">theory<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dorigo\">dorigo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynical-C Blog &#8211; \u00c2\u00bb Sign for the Night &quot;Keep being AWESOME!&quot; (tags: silly food internet) Unscientific America &quot;Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, a journalist-scientist team, offer an updated &quot;two cultures&quot; polemic for America in the 21st century. Just as in Snow&#8217;s time, some of our gravest challenges\u00e2\u0080\u0094climate change, the energy crisis, national economic competitiveness\u00e2\u0080\u0094and gravest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/23\/links-for-2009-06-23\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-06-23<\/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-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}