{"id":5262,"date":"2010-12-11T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T08:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/11\/links-for-2010-12-11\/"},"modified":"2010-12-11T08:20:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T08:20:47","slug":"links-for-2010-12-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/11\/links-for-2010-12-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-12-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2010\/12\/holiday-instability.html\">Physics Buzz: Holiday Instability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Holiday decorations are unstable. (We&#8217;re talking about physics here. We&#8217;ll leave their emotions aside.) To take a closer look at what we&#8217;re dealing with, I&#8217;ve considered three of the most popular items from the array of December decor: The Christmas tree, the Hanukkah menorah and, of course, the Festivus pole.<\/p>\n<p>Which of the three is the most likely to topple over when cousin Fred bumps into it after sampling too much egg nog?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/holiday\">holiday<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics-buzz\">physics-buzz<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2010\/12\/getting-laid-off-is-not-the-same-as-getting-fired.html\">slacktivist: Getting laid off is not the same as getting fired<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Getting laid off is not the same as getting fired.<\/p>\n<p>That should be particularly obvious, as for the past three years America&#8217;s economy and the economy of many other countries around the world have been shaped by mass lay-offs and not by mass firings. But yet this confusion persists &#8212; particularly on right-wing talk radio, on Fox News and among conservative pundits and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of this confusion are cruel.<\/p>\n<p>Advice given on the basis of this confusion is foolish.<\/p>\n<p>Policy misinformed by this confusion is futile and ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s try to clear this up.<\/p>\n<p>Getting laid off is not the same as getting fired.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/prl.aps.org\/abstract\/PRL\/v105\/i24\/e243001\">Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 243001 (2010): Hybrid Optical Pumping of Optically Dense Alkali-Metal Vapor without Quenching Gas<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The nearly unheard-of single-author experimental PRL. Which, amusingly, is still written in first-person plural.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/optics\">optics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/atoms\">atoms<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.act.org\/news\/releases\/2008\/crr.html\">ACT Press Release : 2008 ACT College Readiness Report News Release<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The percentages of ACT-tested 2008 high school graduates who met or surpassed ACT&#8217;s College Readiness Benchmarks in math (43%), reading (53%), and science (28%) were unchanged compared to last year and were either the same or higher than they were in 2004 to 2006. The proportion of 2008 graduates who met the benchmark in English (68%) dropped by one percentage point compared to the last two years but was equal to the percentages in 2004 and 2005.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/12\/21-scandalous-secrets-rev.php\">21 scandalous secrets revealed on WookieLeaks | Blastr<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;@monkeyflungpoo: Mos Eisley Space Port security officials admit to ethnic profiling, and enhanced patdowns of Sand People.<\/p>\n<p>@deathspal: Ballistics report show Greedo&#8217;s gun never fired&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sf\">sf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2206361\/pagenum\/all\/\">A Jewish parent&#8217;s guide to Christmas specials. &#8211; By Dahlia Lithwick &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;If you are a little Jewish kid, Santa Claus does not enter your home via the chimney on Christmas Eve. Instead, he arrives in late fall, usually by way of the Target catalog and the television set. And if you are a little Jewish kid confronting old St. Nick for the first time via Frosty, Rudolph, Charlie Brown, or the 1966 animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you may find yourself with a lot of questions. &#8220;Mamma, who is Center and where are my presents?&#8221; asked my 3-year-old, rather randomly, in October. &#8220;Mommy, is Santa real?&#8221; my 5-year-old asks pretty much daily. In the way of 5-year-old boys everywhere, he follows that one up with &#8220;Mom, if Santa and Judah the Maccabee got in a fight, who would win?&#8221;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/holiday\">holiday<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Buzz: Holiday Instability &#8220;Holiday decorations are unstable. (We&#8217;re talking about physics here. We&#8217;ll leave their emotions aside.) To take a closer look at what we&#8217;re dealing with, I&#8217;ve considered three of the most popular items from the array of December decor: The Christmas tree, the Hanukkah menorah and, of course, the Festivus pole. Which&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/11\/links-for-2010-12-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-12-11<\/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-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","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=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}