{"id":4966,"date":"2010-08-18T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T07:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/18\/links-for-2010-08-18\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T07:46:40","slug":"links-for-2010-08-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/18\/links-for-2010-08-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-08-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skipclasscalculator.com\/\">The Should I Skip Class Today? Calculator<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Here&#8217;s a clue: If you need to use a web-based &#8220;calculator&#8221; to decide whether to go to class or not, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you go to class or not.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/worries.html\">Backreaction: Worries<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;At first sight, physicists seem like normal people. But ask what keeps them up at night and you realize the magnitude of their outworldliness. &#8220;<\/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\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/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\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/backreaction\">backreaction<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2010\/08\/17\/11607\">Teach the indirect measurements \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It occurs to me that while the vast majority of &#8220;just a theory&#8221; disclaimers are intellectually dishonest, there is one issue that reasonable laymen find disconcerting about evolutionary biology:  It&#8217;s a historical science in large part (although there is a large component of the field devoted to contemporary phenomena such as antibiotic and pesticide resistance).  You can&#8217;t do a controlled experiment on the past.  A reasonable person might wonder if we can really be as confident in evolutionary biology as we are in experiments that can be repeated under controlled conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Also, one might wonder if all of the indirect reasoning involved is really valid.  <\/p>\n<p>What people don&#8217;t know is that most of the other things in science and technology involve indirect measurement. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/unqualified-offerings\">unqualified-offerings<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jendodd.com\/2010\/08\/16\/3-rules-for-running-events\/\">3 rules for running events | Jen Dodd<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Rule 1: Spend as much time on logistics as on content<\/p>\n<p>Most events run by amateurs are &#8220;amateur&#8221; because they fall down on details. They have a great idea, or a great speaker, but the event turns out mediocre because the sound system doesn&#8217;t work or because there&#8217;s no parking nearby. It&#8217;s more fun to focus on the big stuff, but getting the little stuff wrong will kill you just as dead as getting the big stuff wrong.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/events\">events<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/conventions\">conventions<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/conferences\">conferences<\/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\/academia\">academia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Should I Skip Class Today? Calculator Here&#8217;s a clue: If you need to use a web-based &#8220;calculator&#8221; to decide whether to go to class or not, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you go to class or not. (tags: education academia stupid internet) Backreaction: Worries &#8220;At first sight, physicists seem like normal people. But ask what&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/18\/links-for-2010-08-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-08-18<\/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-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}