{"id":5050,"date":"2010-09-10T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/10\/links-for-2010-09-10\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T07:07:06","slug":"links-for-2010-09-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/09\/10\/links-for-2010-09-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-09-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2266532\/entry\/2266533\/\">NFL 2010: The biggest thing fans don&#8217;t understand about life in pro football. (1) &#8211; By Stefan Fatsis, Nate Jackson, Josh Levin, and Tom Scocca &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A great discussion of the modern NFL, including a couple of former players.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/football\">football<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/sep\/06\/meat-production-veganism-deforestation\">I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat (but farm it right) | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More to the point, it has opened my eyes to some fascinating complexities in what seemed to be a black and white case.<\/p>\n<p>In the Guardian in 2002 I discussed the sharp rise in the number of the world&#8217;s livestock, and the connection between their consumption of grain and human malnutrition. After reviewing the figures, I concluded that veganism &#8220;is the only ethical response to what is arguably the world&#8217;s most urgent social justice issue&#8221;. I still believe that the diversion of ever wider tracts of arable land from feeding people to feeding livestock is iniquitous and grotesque. So does the book I&#8217;m about to discuss. I no longer believe that the only ethical response is to stop eating meat.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/food\">food<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/essay\">essay<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vectoreditors.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/09\/the-hugos\/\">The Hugos \u00c2\u00ab Torque Control<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The internet being what it is, even a post as marginally belated as this one feels a little redundant. Still, it would feel stranger not to set down my thoughts on this year&#8217;s winners at all, if only because I can&#8217;t agree with Cory Doctorow that these are &#8220;some of the best results in recent memory&#8221;; they seem to me, as usual, a mixed bag, and perhaps more than usual an inconsistent bag.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/magazines\">magazines<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/hugos\">hugos<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/43691\">Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;After running the model with 1000 scientists over 500 time-steps, Thurner and Hanel find that even a small presence of rational or random referees can significantly reduce the quality of published papers. When just 10% of referees do not behave &#8220;correctly&#8221; the quality of accepted papers drops by one standard deviation. If the fractions of rational, random and correct referees are about 1\/3 each, the quality selection aspect of peer review practically vanished altogether.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics-world\">physics-world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journals\">journals<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/09\/this-weeks-finds-week-302\/\">This Week&#8217;s Finds (Week 302) \u00c2\u00ab Azimuth<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A long and detailed discussion of the physics of climate.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/climate\">climate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/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\/baez\">baez<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL 2010: The biggest thing fans don&#8217;t understand about life in pro football. (1) &#8211; By Stefan Fatsis, Nate Jackson, Josh Levin, and Tom Scocca &#8211; Slate Magazine A great discussion of the modern NFL, including a couple of former players. (tags: sports football slate culture) I was wrong about veganism. 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