{"id":4231,"date":"2009-11-08T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/08\/links-for-2009-11-08\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T09:11:50","slug":"links-for-2009-11-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/08\/links-for-2009-11-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-11-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2234719\/entry\/2234720\/\">On Denialism and the role of science in America. (1) &#8211; By Chris Mooney and Michael Specter &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A fourpart discussion on science, the media, and American society, featuring the authors of _The Republican War on Science_ and _Denialism_.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/26\/the-peril-of-palatability\">The Peril of Palatability &#8211; Reason Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Kessler fearlessly accuses major restaurant chains of a crime they brag about, relying on unnamed &#8220;insiders&#8221; to reveal that comestible pushers such as Cinnabon and The Cheesecake Factory deliberately make their food delicious&#8211;or, as he breathlessly puts it, &#8220;design food specifically to be highly hedonic.&#8221; Kessler certainly has the goods on the corporate conspiracy to serve people food they like.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/11\/04\/videos-of-exploding.html\">Videos of exploding capacitors &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;This is every electronic repair tech I&#8217;ve ever dealt with. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/electronics\">electronics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/07\/reagan-reagan-reagan\/\">Reagan! Reagan! Reagan! &#8211; Paul Krugman Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Sorry: there&#8217;s no measure I can think of by which the U.S. economy has done better since 1980 than it did over an equivalent time span before 1980. It may be something you&#8217;ve heard, it may be something you&#8217;d like to believe, but it just didn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/08\/science\/space\/08nasa.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Winner in Contest Involving Space Elevator &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In four years of the power-beaming competition, LaserMotive is the only competitor to qualify for a cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Nugent and Jordin Kare, the company&#8217;s principals, do not believe that a space elevator will be built any time soon, but they say the technology will find other commercial applications like powering small robotic aircraft. &#8220;This is a business for us,&#8221; Mr. Nugent said. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to turn this into a commercial endeavor.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/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\/11\/being_an_absentee_president_is.php\">Being an Absentee President : Built on Facts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[C]ontra the received opinion I&#8217;d like to argue that in fact it&#8217;s easily possible to be an perfectly effective president while spending shockingly little time behind the Resolute desk. In fact for much of early American history presidents did just that &#8211; ie, very little. The presidency and the country have both changed, but in my opinion even today the president simply doesn&#8217;t have to do much to do perform his job with great competence. Now I don&#8217;t expect that any modern president will actually take as little time as I&#8217;m going to suggest; the very type of person who is attracted to the job and can campaign effectively is necessarily the kind of person who&#8217;s willing, able, and eager to manage as much as possible. But he doesn&#8217;t have to be.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/built-on-facts\">built-on-facts<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Denialism and the role of science in America. (1) &#8211; By Chris Mooney and Michael Specter &#8211; Slate Magazine A fourpart discussion on science, the media, and American society, featuring the authors of _The Republican War on Science_ and _Denialism_. (tags: science politics media journalism society culture medicine) The Peril of Palatability &#8211; Reason&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/08\/links-for-2009-11-08\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2009-11-08<\/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-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","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=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}