{"id":4821,"date":"2010-07-02T07:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T07:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/02\/links-for-2010-07-02\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T07:16:38","slug":"links-for-2010-07-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/02\/links-for-2010-07-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-07-02"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmons\/100701\">Bill Simmons: World Cup&#8217;s 20 questions &#8211; ESPN<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Question No. 9: But you&#8217;d still love the NBA to incorporate the yellow\/red card system for flagrant fouls and technical fouls, correct?<\/p>\n<p>Sure. Much better than an official leaning over a scorer&#8217;s table and telling them what the technical or flagrant was, then trying to guess what he said. Bring out yellow\/red cards and we&#8217;d know right away. I also like the concept of an official not having to explain why he called what he called &#8212; like the ref who robbed the U.S. of the winning goal in the Slovenia game and never explained why. It&#8217;s really the only way NBA officials could be shakier and more suspect than they already are. I say go for it &#8212; let&#8217;s go for as shaky and suspect as possible. Let&#8217;s push the envelope.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/soccer\">soccer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/worldsfair\/2010\/07\/experiments_performed_on_vario.php\">Experiments Performed on Various High Level University Administrators To Determine Whether or Not They are Zombies : The World&#8217;s Fair<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Experiment: Administrator B was secretly followed for one week. After subtracting baseline activities such as eating lunch or using the restroom, during this week Administrator B was observed participating in the following activities: 42%: sitting in meetings with no tangible outcome; 21%: talking to people while standing in hallways or doorways; 19%: talking to people while sitting at their desk; 8% signing papers without reading them; 3%: unclassifiable activities. Conclusion: Inconclusive, but the unusually high percentage of conversations conducted while standing is suspect.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/indepth\/43030\">Missed metric moment &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;On 17 January 1794 a French doctor and botanist named Joseph Dombey stepped aboard the Soon, a brig departing from Le Havre for Philadelphia. Dombey bore a letter of introduction from the Committee of Public Safety, the executive body that ruled France during the Reign of Terror. Dombey was carrying to the US Congress a copper length prototype &#8211; newly named the metre &#8211; and a copper kilogram, which were intended to help the US reform its system of weights and measures.<\/p>\n<p>The French revolutionaries had chosen their emissary well. Dombey had an engaging personality and a wealth of scientific learning that would surely impress the Americans. &#8220;He had integrity, courage and a sense of adventure,&#8221; writes the historian Andro Linklater in his 2002 book Measuring America (Walker and Co.) &#8220;He was the ideal choice in every way but one &#8211; his luck was phenomenally bad.&#8221; &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/measurement\">measurement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics-world\">physics-world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/indepth\/43033\">I&#8217;m a football fan&#8230;get me out of here &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Andreas Schadschneider knows a thing or two when it comes to evacuating stadiums. Here he explains how models of pedestrian dynamics borrow ideas from physics to model people as particles&#8221; With cool videos demonstrating pedestrian dynamics.<\/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\/physics-world\">physics-world<\/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\/psychology\">psychology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uapreporting.org\/\">UAP Reporting<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Initiated during 2009 and in the framework of the International Year of Astronomy (1), The Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP)  Observations Reporting Scheme is a project aiming at facilitating the collection of UAP reports from both amateur and professional astronomers, via a questionnaire to be downloaded from a dedicated website.&#8221; Also includes guides to commonly misidentified objects, and flow charts to help make a correct identification. (via Physics World)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2258135\/entry\/2258630\/?from=rss\">Elena Kagan&#8217;s relaxed and charming performance at her confirmation hearing. (2) &#8211; By Dahlia Lithwick &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;And then came Kagan. One of the things that&#8217;s been difficult to explain is why anyone who&#8217;s ever met her&#8211;from her students to her colleagues at Harvard to her staff at the Solicitor General&#8217;s office&#8211;lights up when talking about her. Whereas an American public that fell pretty hard for Roberts and Sotomayor has remained almost completely indifferent to Kagan. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One explanation for this is that Kagan never had a personal story that grabbed American voters by the heartstrings and dragged them into this hearing room. But the other explanation&#8211;the one that is increasingly evident today&#8211;is that to know Elena Kagan is to love her. This is what her boosters and students have been telling me all along: While on paper Kagan appears to be made out of, well, paper, in person she lights up a room.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/lithwick\">lithwick<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/aasif-mandvi,42627\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">Aasif Mandvi | Film | Random Roles | The A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;AVC: You&#8217;ve played doctors several times, along with a lot of cabbies and doormen. You&#8217;ve been a doorman at least twice. <\/p>\n<p>AM:  That&#8217;s just the reality of Hollywood. When you&#8217;re brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles. I used to get the cab-driver roles all the time, and the deli owner. Now I&#8217;ve moved up to the medical profession.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.payscale.com\/education\/average-cost-for-college-ROI\">Average Cost for College &#8211; Compare College Costs &amp; ROI<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">We&#8217;re #13! We&#8217;re #13!<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Simmons: World Cup&#8217;s 20 questions &#8211; ESPN &#8220;Question No. 9: But you&#8217;d still love the NBA to incorporate the yellow\/red card system for flagrant fouls and technical fouls, correct? Sure. Much better than an official leaning over a scorer&#8217;s table and telling them what the technical or flagrant was, then trying to guess what&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/02\/links-for-2010-07-02\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-07-02<\/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-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","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=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}