{"id":3968,"date":"2009-08-05T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/05\/links-for-2009-08-05\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T07:31:09","slug":"links-for-2009-08-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/05\/links-for-2009-08-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-08-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/04\/science\/earth\/04collide.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Large Hadron Collider Struggles, Adding to the Mysteries of Life &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies.<\/p>\n<p>Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival machine across the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>After 15 years and $9 billion, and a showy &#8220;switch-on&#8221; ceremony last September, the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator outside Geneva, has to yet collide any particles at all. &#8220;<\/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\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/overbye\">overbye<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/researchblogging.org\/news\/?p=137\">ResearchBlogging.org News \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Editor&#8217;s selections: From the Kuiper Belt to the nanoscale<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Dr. SkySkull here, of skullsinthestars, your new &#8220;editor-at-large&#8221; for a collection of the &#8220;less traveled&#8221; topics here at ResearchBlogging.org.  I&#8217;ll be here every Monday highlighting some of the posts which have caught my eye over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>For our first week, we look at posts that take us from the edge of the Solar System to the ecology of the Earth right down to the atomic scale:&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/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\/atoms\">atoms<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science-professor.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/academic-gifts-part-1.html\">FemaleScienceProfessor: Academic Gifts, Part 1<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It is interesting and eerie how many of the Facebook &#8220;gifts&#8221;* for academics are familiar elements of my life, even though the gifts seem to have been created by a liberal arts professor. Here is a self-graded summer homework assignment: look at the array of gifts listed below and give yourself 1 point (NO EXTRA CREDIT, but some substitutions allowed) for each one that is or has been an actual element of your experience with academe.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/fsp\">fsp<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/facebook\">facebook<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phylogenomics.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/cant-get-much-worse-than-this-soaking.html\">The Tree of Life: Can&#8217;t get much worse than this: soaking my shorts before my 1st conference talk. Other bad experiences?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">No matter how bad your first talk was, Jonathan has you beat.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/meetings\">meetings<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/talks\">talks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large Hadron Collider Struggles, Adding to the Mysteries of Life &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8220;Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies. 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