{"id":4047,"date":"2009-09-04T06:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T06:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/04\/links-for-2009-09-04\/"},"modified":"2009-09-04T06:59:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T06:59:46","slug":"links-for-2009-09-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/04\/links-for-2009-09-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-09-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/28349?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">Pfizer Launches &#8216;Zoloft For Everything&#8217; Ad Campaign | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;&#8221;At first, Zoloft was only used to treat depression,&#8221; Pugh said. &#8220;But what is depression, really? Who died and gave doctors the authority to dictate who is and isn&#8217;t depressed? One man&#8217;s hangnail could be another man&#8217;s darkest depths of despair. Isn&#8217;t medication a tool to help people lead better, happier lives? Access to drugs should not be restricted to those the medical community officially deems &#8216;sick.'&#8221; &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/drugs\">drugs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/onion\">onion<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/selling-physics-as-is-to-students.html\">Physics and Physicists: Selling Physics As Is To Students<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In an ideal world, we would have teachers like Griffiths and Coleman. But in reality, we don&#8217;t. In fact, we&#8217;d be lucky if have half of the physics instructors we encounter in college are as interesting and enthusiastic about teaching as these two. As with the new technologies and new &#8220;tricks&#8221; that seem to be effective and could be due to the enthusiasm of the instructors themselves, so do the &#8220;old style&#8221; teaching methods of Griffiths that definitely needs someone with the same level of caliber and enthusiasm. Maybe the new technologies and new &#8220;tricks&#8221; of teaching physics to students are there to compensate for those instructors who don&#8217;t have such skill and do not posses such enthusiasm.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics-physicists\">physics-physicists<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/john-crowley,32458\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">John Crowley | Books | A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;AVC: The central conflict in Little, Big is less a matter of discovery than one of trust and patience. Were you trying to create a more realistic fantasy novel?<\/p>\n<p>JC: This is kind of odd to say, I suppose, but I never really thought of it as a fantasy novel. It&#8217;s not like I thought it was realistic. But I never&#8211;it started to be written in the early &#8217;70s. I had never really read much science fiction, fantasy. I hadn&#8217;t yet read Lord Of The Rings, or any of the standard things that were coming out. &#8220;<\/p><\/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\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dotphys.net\/2009\/09\/flu-wars-episode-v-the-faculty-strike-back\/\">Flu Wars &#8211; Episode V: The faculty strike back | Dot Physics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Students are starting to get the flu around here &#8211; and that means that it is time to debate. Clearly there are going to be some absences in the coming month. 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