{"id":5037,"date":"2010-09-06T06:47:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/06\/links-for-2010-09-06\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T06:47:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:47:17","slug":"links-for-2010-09-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/06\/links-for-2010-09-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-09-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2266145\/?from=rss\">Why do we get Labor Day off? &#8211; By Brendan I. Koerner &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. A parade was organized by the city&#8217;s Central Labor Union, a branch of the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, a secretive labor union founded in 1869 by a clique of Philadelphia tailors. Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/some-enchanted-evening,44855\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=avclub_rss_daily\">&#8220;Some Enchanted Evening&#8221; | The Simpsons (Classic) | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Let that marinate in your mind for a moment there, dear reader. The Simpsons was nearly snuffed out in its infancy, strangled in the womb.<br \/>\nCan you even imagine a world without The Simpsons? Can you imagine the agonizing silences that would ensue in a world without Simpsons references? What would we say? What would we do? What show would be there to console us in our darkest hours? What show would provide a common cultural currency for multiple generations? If the show never existed we&#8217;d all have to develop fascinating and intriguing personalities instead of merely parroting choice lines. Verily, it would be the end of civilization.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/nostalgia\">nostalgia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/avclub\">avclub<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/199441.php\">The Over 50&#8217;s Likely Prefer Negative Stories About Young People<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;When given a choice, older people prefer to read negative news, rather than positive news, about young adults, a new study suggests. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, older readers who chose to read negative stories about young individuals actually get a small boost in their self-esteem, according to the results. <\/p>\n<p>And what about younger people? Well, they just prefer not to read about older people. <\/p>\n<p>These results come from a study of 276 Germans who were asked to read what they thought was a test version of an online magazine featuring carefully selected stories about younger and older people. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cog-sci\">cog-sci<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skeptoid.com\/episodes\/4221\">The Myers-Briggs Personality Test<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;If the MBTI approach is valid, we should expect to see two separate bell curves along the introversion\/extraversion spectrum, making it valid for Myers &amp; Briggs to decide there are two groups into which people fit. But data have shown that people do not clump into two separately identifiable curves; they clump into a single bell curve, with extreme introverts and extreme extraverts forming the long tails of the curve, and most people gathered somewhere in the middle. Jung himself said &#8220;There is no such thing as a pure extravert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.&#8221; This does not support the MBTI assumption that people naturally separate into two groups. MBTI takes a knife and cuts the bell curve right down the center, through the meatiest part, and right through most people&#8217;s horizontal error bars. Moreover, this forced error is compounded four times, with each of the four dichotomies. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cog-sci\">cog-sci<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/essay\">essay<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/statistics\">statistics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/04\/science\/space\/04mars.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Accepted Notion of Mars as Lifeless Is Challenged &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;For all the triumph of NASA&#8217;s 1976 Viking mission, which put two unmanned spacecraft on Mars, there was one major disappointment: The landers failed to find carbon-based molecules that could serve as the building blocks of life.<\/p>\n<p>The complete lack of these organic molecules was a surprise, and the notion of a desolate, lifeless Mars persisted for years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, some scientists say that conclusion was premature and perhaps even incorrect. They suggest that such building blocks &#8212; known as organic molecules, although they need not come from living organisms &#8212; were indeed in the soil, but that they were inadvertently destroyed before they could be detected.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/planets\">planets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/nytimes\">nytimes<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/chemistry\">chemistry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/biology\">biology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we get Labor Day off? &#8211; By Brendan I. Koerner &#8211; Slate Magazine &#8220;Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. 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