{"id":4494,"date":"2010-02-01T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T07:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/01\/links-for-2010-02-01\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T07:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T07:52:03","slug":"links-for-2010-02-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/01\/links-for-2010-02-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-02-01"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5gK2EEwzjPQ&amp;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube &#8211; Neil Degrasse Tyson: &#8220;If you&#8217;re scientifically literate the world looks very different to you&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re not scientifically literate, in a way, you&#8217;re disenfranchising yourself.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/youtube\">youtube<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/spirit-of-spirit.html\">The Digital Cuttlefish: The Spirit Of Spirit<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Why do we care about poor little Spirit?<br \/>\nA robot is shutting down; why all the fuss?<br \/>\nMy theory, assuming you might want to hear it&#8211;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not just a bot: it&#8217;s a real part of us.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/poetry\">poetry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/planets\">planets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/mars\">mars<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/robots\">robots<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gilkalai.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/31\/fundamental-examples-2\/\">Fundamental Examples \u00c2\u00ab Combinatorics and more<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It is not unusual that a single example or a very few shape an entire mathematical discipline. Can you give examples for such examples? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to learn about further basic or central examples and I think such examples serve as good invitations to various areas.<\/p>\n<p>I asked this question over mathoverflow and it yielded around 100 examples. They are not equally fundamental and they are not equally suitable to be regarded as &#8220;examples,&#8221; but overall it is a very good list.  If you see some important example missing please, please add it.  Here are the examples classified to areas. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2010\/01\/30\/world-hunger-and-the-locavores\/\">World hunger and the locavores | Analysis &amp; Opinion | Reuters<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Essentially the problem is that the people on the panel have internalized the principles of comparative advantage and free trade to the point at which they are more or less incapable of thinking any other way. In a Ricardian world it makes sense for Ohio to overwhelmingly grow corn and soy, since growing corn and soy is what it does best. And because of economies of scale, it makes sense to grow just one type of each, on farms of mind-boggling size. Ohio can then trade all that corn and soy for the food it wants to eat, and everybody is better off.<\/p>\n<p>Except in reality it doesn&#8217;t work like that. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/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\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube &#8211; Neil Degrasse Tyson: &#8220;If you&#8217;re scientifically literate the world looks very different to you&#8221; &#8220;If you&#8217;re not scientifically literate, in a way, you&#8217;re disenfranchising yourself.&#8221; (tags: science education video youtube politics society culture) The Digital Cuttlefish: The Spirit Of Spirit &#8220;Why do we care about poor little Spirit? 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