{"id":4093,"date":"2009-09-21T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T06:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/21\/links-for-2009-09-21\/"},"modified":"2009-09-21T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T06:53:12","slug":"links-for-2009-09-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/21\/links-for-2009-09-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-09-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/NP_Thorium_exports_coming_from_India_1709091.html\">Thorium-fuelled exports coming from India<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The original design is fuelled by a mix of uranium-233 and plutonium bred from thorium using fast neutron power reactors earlier in a thorium fuel cycle. The LEU variant is suitable for export because it does away with the plutonium, replacing it with uranium enriched to 19.75% uranium-235.<\/p>\n<p>Producing 300 MWe, the unit is less than one third the capacity of a typical large reactor. It is designed to operate for up to 100 years and has a &#8220;next generation&#8221; level of safety that grants operators three days&#8217; grace in the event of a serious incident and requires no emergency planning beyond the site boundary under any circumstances.&#8221;<\/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\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2009\/09\/why-we-need-to-dispense-with-the-gre\/\">Why We Need To Dispense With The GRE | Deep Sea News<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Critics of the GRE, myself included, feel that the GRE does not evaluate any of these but simply provides a metric for how well a person can master GRE test taking procedures. ETS, the nonprofit that administers the test, states &#8220;the tests are intended to measure a portion of the individual characteristics that are important for graduate study: reasoning skills, critical thinking, and the ability to communicate effectively in writing in the General Test, and discipline-specific content knowledge through the Subject Test&#8221; However, the Princeton Review guide states, &#8220;ETS has long claimed that one cannon be coached to do better on its tests. If the GRE were indeed a test of intelligence, then that would be true. 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I became a much more cheerful person during these years; but the experience also aged me in unexpected ways.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/health-care\">health-care<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/Canada\">Canada<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/karl-schroeder\">karl-schroeder<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecooksden.com\/indian-restaurant-tops-their-own-dosa-world-record\/\">Indian Restaurant Tops Their Own Dosa World Record<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Sankalp employees have just finished creating a dosa that measures 32.5 feet. &#8221; Mmmmmmm&#8230;.. dosa&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/05\/090501-dinosaur-lost-world.html\">&#8220;Lost World&#8221; of Dinosaurs Survived Mass Extinction?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Dinosaurs of this &#8220;lost world,&#8221; in a remote region of the U.S. West, may have outlived their doomed relatives by as much as half a million years, according to James Fassett, an emeritus scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Santa Fe, New Mexico.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dinosaurs\">dinosaurs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/evolution\">evolution<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/our-noise,32813\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">Our Noise | Books | A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Mostly, McCaughan and Ballance seem to have made a go of Merge because they know their limitations. Major label or no, Superchunk was unlikely ever to sell more than the mid-five-figures. If a band does that on a major, it gets dropped. If it does that on its own label, it can make enough money to buy a house and put out modest-selling records by its members&#8217; favorite bands. Our Noise makes McCaughan and Ballance&#8217;s choice seem not just noble, but sound.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eknuqWQ4-Mw\">YouTube &#8211; If Star Wars was made by environmentalists..<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A look at the first draft, &#8220;Star Non-Violent Civil Disobedience.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/youtube\">youtube<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thorium-fuelled exports coming from India &#8220;The original design is fuelled by a mix of uranium-233 and plutonium bred from thorium using fast neutron power reactors earlier in a thorium fuel cycle. 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