{"id":4996,"date":"2010-08-26T06:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/26\/links-for-2010-08-26\/"},"modified":"2010-08-26T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T06:56:56","slug":"links-for-2010-08-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/26\/links-for-2010-08-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-08-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/mumble-mumble-shoulder-something-rem-guided-by-voi,44551\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">&#8220;Mumble mumble shoulder something&#8221;: R.E.M., Guided By Voices, Ghostface, and the pleasures of lyrical ambiguity | Music | The A.V. Club Blog | The A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The Stipe of R.E.M.&#8217;s early recordings uses words to create abstract compositions. It&#8217;s not the only way to approach lyric-writing in rock music, or even the best way. Some of my favorite lyricists favor strong statements and clear narratives. Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s &#8220;Stolen Car,&#8221; to choose just the first example to spring to mind, is an extraordinarily effective, deeply sad song that would lose much of its power if Springsteen were to mumble a word.1<\/p>\n<p>But crypticism is a valid choice too. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/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\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2010\/08\/what_is_the_speed_of_gravity.php\">What is the Speed of Gravity? : Starts With A Bang<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;One of the most common questions I get asked is whether gravity is instantaneous, or whether there&#8217;s a speed limit to how fast the force of gravity can travel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good question! After all, we know how fast light travels, and if the Sun were to suddenly wink out of existence, we&#8217;d still receive light from it for just over 8 minutes after it disappeared! But what about gravity, and the Earth&#8217;s orbit? Would the Earth simply fly off in a straight line, like a twirled poi ball the instant a string broke? &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/gravity\">gravity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/starts-with-bang\">starts-with-bang<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caissiesthing.tumblr.com\/post\/1006711429\/a-supposedly-fun-thing-i-would-do-again-in-a-second\">Caissie&#8217;s Thing \u00e2\u0080\u00a2 A Supposedly Fun Thing I Would Do Again in a Second<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I cannot disagree with any of what David Foster Wallace says about cruising. For me, it all inelegantly came down to a morbid fascination with how much intricately carved fruit people seemed to be ingesting versus a mounting, and unfortunately quite rational, fear of shipboard toilet unreliability. The pools were like big bowls of human soup. The ice shows (ICE SHOWS!) contained much falling. On both trips, I came to see the vessel not so much as an unfathomably massive ship, but rather more like a floating small town I couldn&#8217;t pack up and run away from. Not for seven days, at least.<\/p>\n<p>So, I can honestly say that I hadn&#8217;t really ever planned on taking another cruise. Until April, when after a difficult day of fifth grade, which a different kid might have dealt with by eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes while watching cartoons he usually says he&#8217;s too old for, my son tried to end his life.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/essay\">essay<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/depression\">depression<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/08\/25\/a-tornado-made-of-fire-seriously\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29\">A tornado made of fire. Seriously. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Pretty much exactly as advertised: A tornado made of fire. If it could somehow involve sharks and bears, it would be the scariest thing EVER.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/weather\">weather<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mumble mumble shoulder something&#8221;: R.E.M., Guided By Voices, Ghostface, and the pleasures of lyrical ambiguity | Music | The A.V. Club Blog | The A.V. Club &#8220;The Stipe of R.E.M.&#8217;s early recordings uses words to create abstract compositions. It&#8217;s not the only way to approach lyric-writing in rock music, or even the best way. 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