{"id":4734,"date":"2010-06-02T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/02\/links-for-2010-06-02\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:18:00","slug":"links-for-2010-06-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/02\/links-for-2010-06-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-06-02"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.williamgibsonbooks.com\/2010\/05\/31\/book-expo-american-luncheon-talk\/\">BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The Future, capital-F, be it crystalline city on the hill or radioactive post-nuclear wasteland, is gone. Ahead of us, there is merely&#8230;more stuff. Events. Some tending to the crystalline, some to the wasteland-y. Stuff: the mixed bag of the quotidian.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t mistake this for one of those &#8220;after us, the deluge&#8221; moments on my part. I&#8217;ve always found those appalling, and most particularly when uttered by aging futurists, who of all people should know better. This newfound state of No Future is, in my opinion, a very good thing. It indicates a kind of maturity, an understanding that every future is someone else&#8217;s past, every present someone else&#8217;s future. Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/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:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2010\/06\/zero-point_free_lunches.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BuiltOnFacts+%28Built+on+Facts%29\">Zero-point free lunches : Built on Facts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Occasionally you&#8217;ll hear some intrepid thinker propose to use this as a source of power. If the particle always has that minimum energy, why can&#8217;t we bleed off energy from the particle as nature constantly replenishes it to keep it at the zero-point value? Unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t work. As weird as quantum mechanics is, it still doesn&#8217;t give us away around thermodynamics.&#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\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/thermo\">thermo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/built-on-facts\">built-on-facts<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/42821\">Quirky particles could explain universe&#8217;s missing mass &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Just what we need&#8211; more hypothetical particles with silly names.<\/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\/theory\">theory<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cosmology\">cosmology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abstrusegoose.com\/272\">Abstruse Goose \u00c2\u00bb Prerequisites<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I need one of those dictionaries&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/abstruse-goose\">abstruse-goose<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/theory\">theory<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/05\/st_essay_sciencepr\/\">Why Science Needs to Step Up Its PR Game | Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It didn&#8217;t even occur to the AAAS panelists that someone might find that here&#8217;s-the-data-we&#8217;re-right attitude patronizing&#8211;and worthy of skepticism. &#8220;Until scientists realize they need us, we can&#8217;t help them,&#8221; Bush says. &#8220;They have to wake up and say: &#8216;I recognize it&#8217;s not working, and I&#8217;m willing to listen to you.&#8217; It&#8217;s got to start there.&#8221; Science increasingly must make its most important cases to nonscientists&#8211;not just about climate but also evolution, health care, and vaccine safety. And in all of those fields, the science has proven to be incapable of speaking for itself. It&#8217;s time for those with true passion to get over the stigma, stand up, and start telling their stories.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/climate\">climate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/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>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK &#8220;The Future, capital-F, be it crystalline city on the hill or radioactive post-nuclear wasteland, is gone. Ahead of us, there is merely&#8230;more stuff. Events. Some tending to the crystalline, some to the wasteland-y. Stuff: the mixed bag of the quotidian. Please don&#8217;t mistake this for one of those &#8220;after us,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/02\/links-for-2010-06-02\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-06-02<\/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-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","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=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}