{"id":4527,"date":"2010-02-09T07:49:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/09\/links-for-2010-02-09\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T07:49:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:49:49","slug":"links-for-2010-02-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/09\/links-for-2010-02-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-02-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8501042.stm\">BBC News &#8211; More cat owners &#8216;have degrees&#8217; than dog-lovers<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">My favorite bit is the note that &#8220;Cat and dog numbers were last estimated in a scientific peer-reviewed journal in 1989,&#8221; because, of course, peer review is critical to the process&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pets\">pets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dog\">dog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/exhibits\/laser\/sections\/raydevices.html\">Bright Idea: The First Lasers &#8212; A history of discoveries leading to the 1960 invention.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">An excellent step-by-step history of the development of the laser, including interviews with laser pioneers.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/lasers\">lasers<\/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\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/atoms\">atoms<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/molecules\">molecules<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-highs-and-lows-of-this-years-super-bowl-ads,37983\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">The highs and lows of this year&#8217;s Super Bowl ads | TV | Crosstalk | The A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty sure that the general response to this year&#8217;s Super Bowl commercials will be mild-to-strong disgust over how anti-woman so many of them were. I know it&#8217;s the norm for ads during sporting events to play up how &#8220;man time&#8221; is sacred and &#8220;woman time&#8221; is lame, but I&#8217;ve rarely seen that theme take such a hostile turn.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/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\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/nasa_launches_david_bowie_concept?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">NASA Launches David Bowie Concept Mission | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;According to NASA administrator Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden, Jr., the highly experimental glam space program&#8211;dubbed Project Starman&#8211;has been in development for exactly five years. Though engineers initially feared the mission might &#8220;blow our minds,&#8221; the historic launch ultimately proceeded without incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Admittedly, this is a very bold and risky departure for the agency,&#8221; said Bolden, later adding that Bowie&#8217;s Ziggy Stardust period and other outer-space-related work has been a major influence on NASA&#8217;s direction since the early 1970s. &#8220;Those familiar with NASA&#8217;s previous, more conventional research and exploration sensibilities are going to be in for quite a shock. Many are likely to be confused and threatened by the boundary-pushing nature of the project.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/onion\">onion<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cortex\/2010\/02\/chatroulette.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2FwDAM+%28The+Frontal+Cortex%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">ChatRoulette : The Frontal Cortex<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;ChatRoulette is an online version of the friction that cities produce for free. It&#8217;s like a subway ride on your computer, a chance to bump into strangers on the &#8220;street&#8221; without leaving your desk. Sure, there are lots of weirdos out there, and plenty of those strangers won&#8217;t stare back. But every once in a while, a meaningful interaction might occur, as the social slot machine dispenses a few quarters. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/neuroscience\">neuroscience<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News &#8211; More cat owners &#8216;have degrees&#8217; than dog-lovers My favorite bit is the note that &#8220;Cat and dog numbers were last estimated in a scientific peer-reviewed journal in 1989,&#8221; because, of course, peer review is critical to the process&#8230; (tags: pets dog society education social-science) Bright Idea: The First Lasers &#8212; A history&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/09\/links-for-2010-02-09\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-02-09<\/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-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","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=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}