{"id":3874,"date":"2009-07-15T05:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/15\/links-for-2009-07-15\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T05:01:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T05:01:21","slug":"links-for-2009-07-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/15\/links-for-2009-07-15\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-07-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/funny-pictures-cat-upsets-your-gravity.jpg\">funny-pictures-cat-upsets-your-gravity.jpg (JPEG Image, 500&#215;398 pixels)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Finally, the problem with quantum gravity is revealed.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/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\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gravity\">gravity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-wright\/why-the-new-atheists-are_b_230448.html\">Robert Wright: Why the &quot;New Atheists&quot; are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on foreign policy. After all, with atheists an overwhelmingly left-wing group, what were the chances that the loudest infidel in the western world would happen to be on the right?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the chances were pretty good. When it comes to foreign policy, a right-wing bias afflicts not just Hitchens&#8217;s world view, but the whole ideology of &quot;new atheism,&quot; especially as seen in the work of Hitchens allies Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/war\">war<\/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\/social-science\">social-science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/partiallyappliedlife.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/firefly-virga.html\">A Partially Applied Life: Firefly + Virga?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I was thinking recently about the combination of two very different SF universes: Whedon&#8217;s Firefly \/ Serenity and Karl Schroeder&#8217;s Virga series. No, I am not completely insane. If you are familiar with both, please let me explain&#8230; &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/07\/14\/blackmale\">News: Reaching Black Men &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Nationally, the six-year graduation rate for black students enrolled at four-year institutions is 40.5 percent, compared to 56.1 percent overall (and 59.4 percent for white students). Furthermore, the rates for black men trail those of black women. At four-year public universities, the graduation rate for black men is 31.4 percent, compared to 43.1 percent for black women; at private non-profit colleges, the national rates are 38.6 percent for black men, and 49.3 percent for black women.<\/p>\n<p>In response to these glaring discrepancies, an increasing number of colleges have started Black Male Initiatives or other targeted programs. They run the gamut from student-run programs or clubs to initiatives managed by university systems&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/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\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantumcamp.com\/\">Foundations of Our Universe \u00e2\u0080\u008e(QuantumCamp)\u00e2\u0080\u008e<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Have you ever wondered how the microscopic Universe works? QuantumCamp is a one week journey through this strange but beautiful world &#8211; seeing nothing less than how every atom in our universe is working!<br \/>\nWe begin with Dmitri Mendeleev&#8217;s  periodic table of the elements. We move from Albert Einstein&#8217;s idea of quantization and end up seeing the hydrogen spectrum while contemplating the ideas of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.<br \/>\nWe witness the explosive beauty and inner order of the elements which begs for deeper investigation.  We dive in and immerse ourselves in a world where quantum logic guides us to an understanding of the quantum nature of the universe.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/math.rejecta.org\/about-rejecta-mathematica\">About Rejecta Mathematica | Rejecta Mathematica<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Rejecta Mathematica is an open access, online journal that publishes only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals (or conferences with comparable review standards) in the mathematical sciences.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/open-access\">open-access<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journals\">journals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>funny-pictures-cat-upsets-your-gravity.jpg (JPEG Image, 500&#215;398 pixels) Finally, the problem with quantum gravity is revealed. (tags: pictures silly animals internet physics gravity quantum) Robert Wright: Why the &quot;New Atheists&quot; are Right-Wing on Foreign Policy &quot;It must strike progressive atheists as a stroke of bad luck that Christopher Hitchens, leading atheist spokesperson, happens to have hawkish views on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/15\/links-for-2009-07-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-07-15<\/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-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","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=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}