{"id":4712,"date":"2010-05-23T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/23\/links-for-2010-05-23\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T07:50:00","slug":"links-for-2010-05-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/23\/links-for-2010-05-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-05-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/science\/23family.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Every Hug, Every Fuss &#8211; Scientists Record Families&#8217; Daily Lives &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[T]he U.C.L.A. project was an attempt to capture a relatively new sociological species: the dual-earner, multiple-child, middle-class American household. The investigators have just finished working through the 1,540 hours of videotape, coding and categorizing every hug, every tantrum, every soul-draining search for a missing soccer cleat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the richest, most detailed, most complete database of middle-class family living in the world,&#8221; said Thomas S. Weisner, a professor of anthropology at U.C.L.A. who was not involved in the research. &#8220;What it does is hold up a mirror to people. They laugh. They cringe. It shows us life as it is actually lived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After more than $9 million and untold thousands of hours of video watching, they have found that, well, life in these trenches is exactly what it looks like: a fire shower of stress, multitasking and mutual nitpicking. And the researchers found plenty to nitpick themselves. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/anthro\">anthro<\/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\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/marriage\">marriage<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=446\">Shtetl-Optimized \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb What&#8217;s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;When people ask me why we don&#8217;t yet have quantum computers, my first response is to imagine someone asking Charles Babbage in the 1820s: &#8220;so, when are we going to get these scalable classical computers?  by 1830? or maybe 1840?&#8221;  In that case, we know that it took more than a century for the technology to catch up with the theory (and in particular, for the transistor to be invented).  More generally, we have lots of precedents for a technology being imaginable decades or even centuries before it became technologically feasible&#8211;heavier-than-air flight is another example.  So there&#8217;s nothing weird or anomalous about our current situation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/shtetl-optimized\">shtetl-optimized<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Hug, Every Fuss &#8211; Scientists Record Families&#8217; Daily Lives &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8220;[T]he U.C.L.A. project was an attempt to capture a relatively new sociological species: the dual-earner, multiple-child, middle-class American household. 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