{"id":4846,"date":"2010-07-14T07:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T07:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/14\/links-for-2010-07-14\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T07:48:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T07:48:30","slug":"links-for-2010-07-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/14\/links-for-2010-07-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-07-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5584356\/can-i-build-an-ansible-to-communicate-across-the-cosmos\">Can I build an ansible to communicate across the cosmos?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In this week&#8217;s Ask a Physicist, we answer a question that&#8217;s on everyone&#8217;s mind: Can we use quantum entanglement to make a mockery of the speed of light, and create intergalactic communications devices like Le Guin&#8217;s &#8220;ansible&#8221;?&#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\/sf\">sf<\/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\/io9\">io9<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/when-technology-doesnt-help.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: When Technology Doesn&#8217;t Help<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In most industries, new technology is adopted because it&#8217;s expected to lower costs and\/or improve productivity (which lowers costs over time). It doesn&#8217;t always succeed, of course, and the usual vagaries of faddism are certainly there. But by and large, the point of adopting a new technology is to make the underlying business stronger.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t apply in either higher education or health care. In both of those, institutions adopt technology to meet rising expectations, whether it helps with cost or not. Much of the time, it actually leads to increased costs. &#8220;<\/p><\/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\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/libraries\">libraries<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaythefutureblogs.com\/2010\/07\/basement-empire-3-lessons-science-fiction\/\">The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Basement and Empire, Part 3: Lessons in SF<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I owe a lot to fandom. From Don Wollheim, John Michel, Doc Lowndes &#8212; and later from Cyril Kornbluth, Dick Wilson, Isaac Asimov and others &#8212; I learned something about what they were learning about writing; we all showed each other our stories, when we weren&#8217;t actually collaborating on them. In the fan mags, I acquired the skills necessary to prepare something for public viewing &#8212; and the courage to permit it.<\/p>\n<p>What I am not as sure of is whether all the things we learned then were worth learning.&#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\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pohl\">pohl<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the99.org\/\">THE 99<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Because a comic book about Islamic librarian superheros is too cool not to link.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/libraries\">libraries<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I build an ansible to communicate across the cosmos? &#8220;In this week&#8217;s Ask a Physicist, we answer a question that&#8217;s on everyone&#8217;s mind: Can we use quantum entanglement to make a mockery of the speed of light, and create intergalactic communications devices like Le Guin&#8217;s &#8220;ansible&#8221;?&#8221; (tags: science physics quantum sf education blogs io9)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/14\/links-for-2010-07-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-07-14<\/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-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","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=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}