{"id":4267,"date":"2009-11-24T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/24\/links-for-2009-11-24\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:25:11","slug":"links-for-2009-11-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/11\/24\/links-for-2009-11-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-11-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/popdose.com\/chart-attack-112076\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Popdose+%28Popdose%29\">CHART ATTACK!: 11\/20\/76 | Popdose<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I keep trying to figure out what this song is really trying to say in its subtext &#8212; but no, I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s actually about two muskrats courting. I know I said this a few songs ago, but WHY? Why did we need a song about two muskrats on a date? And even more importantly, why were Captain &amp; Tennille the third artists to record the song? Originally titled &#8220;Mukstrat Candlelight&#8221; &#8212; and let&#8217;s just pause a second to think about the meeting where the artistic merits of this title were debated &#8212; the song was written and recorded by Willis Alan Ramsey in 1972, then covered by America in 1973 and C&amp;T in 1976. The America version peaked at #67, but C&amp;T made it all the way here to #4. Why?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/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\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/popdose\">popdose<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificblogging.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/new_tevatron_higgs_limits_got_worse_115_gev_excess_growing\">New Tevatron Higgs Limits Got Worse, But The 115 GeV Excess Is Growing!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Rather than feeling let down by the Tevatron, let us instead try and get excited about the chance that there is something going on at lower mass: in fact, the Tevatron is seeing a definite excess of events in Higgs searches geared towards a low Higgs mass: for 115 GeV, there is a just less than 2-sigma upward fluctuation of the data! Is this the first scent of Higgs we get to smell after the LEP2 1.7-sigma result of eight years ago ?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dorigo\">dorigo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.markcnewton.com\/2009\/11\/21\/things-i-dont-like-about-writing\/\">Things I Don&#8217;t Like About Writing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love writing books, and wouldn&#8217;t want to stop doing it. You&#8217;ll have to take this MacBook from my cold dead hands. But the medium of writing is a curious one, and there are some parts about the process which I really dislike.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/11\/tasters-choice.html\">Cocktail Party Physics: taster&#8217;s choice<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;So cooking is definitely a science, drawing on chemistry and physics and basic biology\/anatomy among other fields, not to mention engineering to come up with innovative preparation techniques. It&#8217;s become so much of a science, in fact, that the University of Copenhagen is currently advertising for a professorial appointment in culinary chemistry, part of an ongoing effort to establish molecular gastronomy as a serious field of scientific study.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/chemistry\">chemistry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cocktail-party\">cocktail-party<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aidwatchers.com\/2009\/11\/african-leaders-advise-bono-on-reform-of-u2\/\">African leaders advise Bono on reform of U2<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Saying that U2&#8217;s rock had lost touch with its African roots, the commission called for urgent measures to halt U2&#8217;s slide towards impending crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our youth today are imperiled by low quality music,&#8221; said Commission chairman Nelson Mandela. &#8220;We will be lending African musicians to U2 to try to refurbish their sound to satisfy the urgent and growing needs for diversionary entertainment at a time of crisis in the global music and financial sectors.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/new_noveller_allows_people_to_post\">New &#8216;Noveller&#8217; Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their Day | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Just months after its release, Noveller has become a cultural touchstone, despite countless jibes from critics who claim it has broken no new literary ground and oversimplifies the narrative form. Those who Novel on a daily basis claim to love the challenge of the utility&#8217;s 140-page minimum, and popular Novellists such as TheRealJayDeeSalinger, no_i_am_not_thomas_pynchon, and aplusk soon boasted hundreds of thousands of followers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes me wonder how I ever kept track of my friends and their symbolic prose examinations of universal human experiences before this,&#8221; user Joyce Carol Oates said. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, did we really ever actually go to libraries? 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