{"id":4211,"date":"2009-11-01T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T08:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/01\/links-for-2009-11-01\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T08:07:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T08:07:15","slug":"links-for-2009-11-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/01\/links-for-2009-11-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-11-01"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kschroeder.com\/weblog\/archive\/2009\/10\/31\/another-dumb-article-on-why-spaceflight-is-bad-for\">Another dumb article on why spaceflight is bad for you &#8212; KarlSchroeder.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;But really, people, think!  This doesn&#8217;t mean that space flight is intrinsically dangerous.  It means that badly shielded tin-can environments that aren&#8217;t spun for gravity are a bad idea.  And that is quite a different conclusion.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/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.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/31\/sports\/football\/31giants.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Giants&#8217; Danny Clark Chose to Go Green With a Smart Car &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[T]he glances turn to stares and smiles when he parks his 1,600-pound vehicle and his 6-foot-2, 245-pound body emerges from behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s when the real mystery comes about,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;They say, &#8216;How does this big guy get out of such a small car?&#8217; Other drivers are quite surprised. They can&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/football\">football<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/publications\/apsnews\/200910\/backpage.cfm\">The Back Page<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It does not matter the exact age that you learned to walk. What matters is that you learned to walk at a developmentally appropriate time. To do my job as a physicist I need to know matrix inversion. It didn&#8217;t hurt my career that I learned that technique in college rather than in eighth grade. What mattered was that I understood enough about math when I got to college that I could take calculus. Memorizing a long list of advanced techniques to appease test scorers does not constitute an understanding.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/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\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/8328878.stm\">BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The map that changed the world<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Almost exactly 500 years ago, in 1507, Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann, two obscure Germanic scholars based in the mountains of eastern France, made one of the boldest leaps in the history of geographical thought &#8211; and indeed in the larger history of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of an otherwise plodding treatise titled Introduction to Cosmography, they announced to their readers the astonishing news that the world did not just consist of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the three parts of the world known since antiquity. A previously unknown fourth part of the world had recently been discovered, they declared, by the Italian merchant Amerigo Vespucci, and in his honour they had decided to give it a name: America. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another dumb article on why spaceflight is bad for you &#8212; KarlSchroeder.com &#8220;But really, people, think! This doesn&#8217;t mean that space flight is intrinsically dangerous. It means that badly shielded tin-can environments that aren&#8217;t spun for gravity are a bad idea. And that is quite a different conclusion.&#8221; (tags: space science sf economics blogs karl-schroeder)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/01\/links-for-2009-11-01\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2009-11-01<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}