{"id":4203,"date":"2009-10-29T07:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T07:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/29\/links-for-2009-10-29\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T07:12:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T07:12:04","slug":"links-for-2009-10-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/29\/links-for-2009-10-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-10-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/sexist\/2009\/10\/23\/sexist-beatdown-the-happy-hooker-or-why-doesnt-steven-levitt-suck-dick-for-a-living\/\">Sexist Beatdown: The Happy Hooker, Or Why Doesn&#8217;t Steven Levitt Suck Dick For a Living? &#8211; The Sexist &#8211; Washington City Paper<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[E]ven though our two Steves are really brilliant economists, they just can&#8217;t figure out why most of us women don&#8217;t want to have sex for tons and tons of money. Why aren&#8217;t more women successful prostitutes?, Levitt and Dubner ask. Is it because:<\/p>\n<p>    a) They don&#8217;t like sex;<br \/>\n    b) They hate men;<br \/>\n    c) They&#8217;re kind of dumb;<br \/>\n    d) All of the above.<\/p>\n<p>If you guessed D, you are probably either Steven Levitt or Stephen Dubner. (Thanks for reading, guys!)&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sex\">sex<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/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:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/29\/science\/space\/29light.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Intergalactic Race Ends in a Virtual Tie &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The race was between gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths spit in a burst from an exploding star when the universe was half its present age. After a journey of 7.3 billion light-years, they all arrived within nine-tenths of a second of one another in a detector on NASA&#8217;s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, at 8:22 p.m., Eastern time, on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers said the gamma-ray race was one of the most stringent tests yet of a bedrock principle of modern physics: Einstein&#8217;s proclamation in his 1905 theory of relativity that the speed of light is constant and independent of its color, or energy; direction; or how you yourself are moving. &#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\/relativity\">relativity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/overbye\">overbye<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2009\/10\/book-throwing_and_physics.php\">Book-throwing and physics. : Built on Facts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Grab a book, or an empty DVD case, or anything else that&#8217;s a uniform rectangular solid. If it&#8217;s a book, you might want to secure the book closed with tape or a very lightweight clip, because we&#8217;ll be throwing it in the air. We want to test a theory.&#8221;<\/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\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/built-on-facts\">built-on-facts<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/28\/business\/energy-environment\/28drill.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;adxnnlx=1256728392-PSy54vqimIiV1IvXjLKVPg\">Chesapeake Energy Won&#8217;t Drill for Natural Gas in New York Watershed &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Of course, the rest of New York state is still fair game. But all that really matters is that The City&#8217;s watershed won&#8217;t be hurt. People in Binghamton don&#8217;t drink water, anyway.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/new-york\">new-york<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexist Beatdown: The Happy Hooker, Or Why Doesn&#8217;t Steven Levitt Suck Dick For a Living? &#8211; The Sexist &#8211; Washington City Paper &#8220;[E]ven though our two Steves are really brilliant economists, they just can&#8217;t figure out why most of us women don&#8217;t want to have sex for tons and tons of money. 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