{"id":3998,"date":"2009-08-19T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/19\/links-for-2009-08-19\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:07:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T08:07:29","slug":"links-for-2009-08-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/19\/links-for-2009-08-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-08-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dotphys.net\/2009\/08\/how-a-silly-online-guessing-game-works\/\">Regifting Robin. How does it work? | Dot Physics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The simple math behind a silly game.<\/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\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/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:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-ml-egypt-aging-president,0,1448084.story\">As 81-year-old Mubarak heads to Washington, Egyptians wonder about their leader&#8217;s health &#8212; latimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">An update from Uncertain Principles Senior Middle East Correspondent Paul Schemm.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/40134\">Making graphene in a flash &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In a video released by the group, brown, transparent sheets of graphite oxide can be seen to blacken and expand, accompanied by a loud popping sound. Huang&#8217;s team describes the resulting black material as &#8220;fluffy&#8221; &#8211; it is porous and only a fraction of the density of graphite. Further analysis showed that the material is made up of disordered graphene sheets and flakes that are well spaced from one another. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/chemistry\">chemistry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/materials\">materials<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/08\/wylie-why-young-life-is-evil.html\">slacktivist: WYLIE (Why Young Life Is Evil)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Their Big Idea for youth ministry is scarcely hinted at in anything on the group&#8217;s Web site, so I can&#8217;t quote this in their own words, but it goes something like this: If you want your youth group and your youth ministry events to be popular, you&#8217;ve got to get the popular kids to come. So the popular kids should be your priority &#8212; the jocks, the cheerleaders, the attractive kids, the Heathers.<\/p>\n<p>So basically, Young Lifers accept and adopt the stratified hierarchy and caste system of high school. A Young Life meeting &#8212; by design &#8212; looked like a casting call for the villains of every decent high school movie ever made, the richies or preppies or whatever you wanted to call them.<\/p>\n<p>Evil.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/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\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regifting Robin. How does it work? | Dot Physics The simple math behind a silly game. (tags: science blogs math silly dot-physics) As 81-year-old Mubarak heads to Washington, Egyptians wonder about their leader&#8217;s health &#8212; latimes.com An update from Uncertain Principles Senior Middle East Correspondent Paul Schemm. 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