{"id":4265,"date":"2009-11-23T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/23\/links-for-2008-11-23\/"},"modified":"2009-11-23T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:49:44","slug":"links-for-2008-11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/23\/links-for-2008-11-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2008-11-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2009\/11\/seeing_laser_beams.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BuiltOnFacts+%28Built+on+Facts%29\">Seeing Laser Beams : Built on Facts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I have to say it&#8217;s a nice job perk that I can see old science fiction tropes come to life pretty much every day.&#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\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/built-on-facts\">built-on-facts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/lasers\">lasers<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exple.tive.org\/blarg\/?p=1945\">blarg? \u00c2\u00bb A Note To Maya<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;So according to the old joke, a fed-up student asks the physics prof who&#8217;s going over kinetics in protracted detail, what good is all this? What will I ever use this for? To which the professor, not even looking up from where he&#8217;s writing on the board, says &#8220;This stuff saves lives.&#8221; The student balks for a second and then gets belligerent, demanding to know how first-year physics saves lives. The professor doesn&#8217;t even turn around, saying &#8220;it keeps idiots like you out of med school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maya, you can&#8217;t read this yet, and it might be years before you know what half of it means, but I&#8217;m writing it down for the day you do.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/hoye\">hoye<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2009\/11\/casual_fridays_what_makes_a_go_1.php?utm_source=selectfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer, and what motivates them? : Cognitive Daily<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We received an astonishing number of responses to last week&#8217;s Casual Fridays study, which claimed to be able to identify what makes a good writer in just a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I wasn&#8217;t actually very confident that a brief survey could actually identify the factors that make a good writer. But I did have a hunch that there were certain traits that were more likely to be associated with good writing.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cog-daily\">cog-daily<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/statistics\">statistics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/content\/article\/hair_raiser\/\">Hair Raiser \u00c2\u00a7 SEEDMAGAZINE.COM<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker duel over balancing scientific rigor with relatable narrative,&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/magazines\">magazines<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/seed\">seed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/evolution\">evolution<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/statistics\">statistics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmanyc.org\/\">Rubin Museum of Art:Art of the Himalayas<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Very cool museum dedicated to the art of the Himalayan region (India, Tibet, Nepal, China, Bhutan, etc.). 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