{"id":4353,"date":"2009-12-21T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T07:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/21\/links-for-2009-12-21\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T07:43:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T07:43:38","slug":"links-for-2009-12-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/12\/21\/links-for-2009-12-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-12-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/12\/make-it-sir-star-treks-pa.php\">Make it Sir: Star Trek&#8217;s Patrick Stewart to be knighted | SCI FI Wire<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Sadly, William Shatner is not British.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/theater\">theater<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/awards\">awards<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/dn\/latestnews\/stories\/121409dnmetcarinspect.3f86785.html\">Are Texas&#8217; auto safety inspections worth the hassle? | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Texas is one of 19 states left that require a periodic safety review &#8211; down from a peak of 31 states in the 1970s. The District of Columbia recently disbanded its inspection program because of high costs and a lack of evidence that the inspections saved lives.<\/p>\n<p>There is no serious discussion about eliminating Texas&#8217; program, which includes an emissions test in Dallas and some other locations.<\/p>\n<p>But state officials and insurers acknowledge that more could be done to determine what the inspections are accomplishing. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cars\">cars<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/091220\/full\/462978a.html?s=news_rss\">Newsmaker of the year: The power player : Nature News<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;As a physicist, he found a way to capture atoms and won a Nobel prize. Now he is marshalling scientists and engineers to transform the world&#8217;s biggest energy economy. Eric Hand profiles the US energy secretary, Nature&#8217;s Newsmaker of the Year.&#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\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/Nobel\">Nobel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/%7Ecook\/movabletype\/archives\/2009\/12\/say_a_little_pr.html\">Say a little prior for me: more on climate change &#8211; Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I have a PhD in physics, and although much of what I do at work is statistical data analysis and some engineering-type modeling I still have a physicists&#8217; outlook in general. I don&#8217;t think a really simple physical model can tell us exactly what the doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will do&#8230;but I do think it can tell us a lot. So, let&#8217;s take a look. &#8220;<\/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\/thermo\">thermo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/climate\">climate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/statistics\">statistics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebrotherton.com\/?p=1855\">Five Reasons Why People Think They Hate Science (and what to do about it!)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I think that countering biases means figuring out misconceptions, confronting them, and knocking them down first thing.  If you don&#8217;t hit the misconception, you don&#8217;t actually teach anyone anything.  The misconceptions run strong and reassert themselves over time.  So, I want to try to list the issues people have with science, rational and irrational, and want to think about how to respond to and perhaps counter these.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/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\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make it Sir: Star Trek&#8217;s Patrick Stewart to be knighted | SCI FI Wire Sadly, William Shatner is not British. 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