{"id":5296,"date":"2010-12-28T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T07:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/28\/links-for-2010-12-28\/"},"modified":"2010-12-28T07:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T07:42:57","slug":"links-for-2010-12-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/28\/links-for-2010-12-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-12-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2279264\/?from=rss\">Do dogs need sweaters when it&#8217;s cold? Plus: Is road salt edible? &#8211; By Brian Palmer &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;A major blizzard dropped 20 inches of snow on New York City on Sunday night as it made its way up the East Coast. Monday-morning dog-walkers had their animals decked out in sweaters and booties to protect them from the snow and ice. Are warm doggie outfits really necessary?<\/p>\n<p>They can be. Some dogs are bred to handle cold weather. Labrador retrievers and Newfoundlands, for example, naturally grow out their locks in winter for added insulation. They&#8217;re so good at keeping warm that they don&#8217;t mind swimming in near-freezing water. But smaller, short-haired dogs are ill-equipped for blizzard conditions. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/animals\">animals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dog\">dog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slate\">slate<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/weather\">weather<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/27\/do-we-drink-because-were-monogamous-or-are-we-monogamous-because-we-drink\/\">Do We Drink Because We&#8217;re Monogamous, or Are We Monogamous Because We Drink? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Storchmann wrote to us the other day about an interesting working paper the AAWE has just posted: &#8220;Women or Wine? Monogamy and Alcohol,&#8221; by Mara Squicciarini and Jo Swinnen. From the abstract:<\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly, across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol. We investigate whether there is a correlation between alcohol consumption and polygynous\/monogamous arrangements, both over time and across cultures. Historically, we find a correlation between the shift from polygyny to monogamy and the growth of alcohol consumption.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/booze\">booze<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/marriage\">marriage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/physics_forecasts_2011\">Physics Forecasts For 2011<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;So here I am, at the end of this eventful 2010, to look forward rather than backward, with no additional grand to invest but some insight to use, some reputation to waste, and a bit of humour to stuff between the lines.<\/p>\n<p>2011 to me means the summer conferences here. The 2011 winter conferences will happen in just a few months and make any prediction rather dull (I know pretty well what the collaborations are going to show there already), while the 2012 winter conference -well, they&#8217;re in 2012, duh. Summer 2011 conferences will occur in the summer of 2011 (this is already a quite definite prediction) and more precisely in July and August. Physicists from the Tevatron and LHC experiments will push hard to produce the best results they can in time for their (or their bosses&#8217;) talks. What will they show there ?&#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\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dorigo\">dorigo<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/quantum_diaries_survivor\/if_were_higgs_200_gev\">If That Were A Higgs At 200 GeV&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The question by our reader, however, is more meaningful: Okay, maybe this is not a Higgs decay (the chance that it is due to simple production of two Z bosons together is way higher, even if the Higgs boson exists). But let&#8217;s see anyway what comes up for the Tevatron experiments in the same final state. Would CDF and DZERO have seen more such events in case the Higgs was there, at 201 GeV ?&#8221;<\/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\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dorigo\">dorigo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do dogs need sweaters when it&#8217;s cold? Plus: Is road salt edible? &#8211; By Brian Palmer &#8211; Slate Magazine &#8220;A major blizzard dropped 20 inches of snow on New York City on Sunday night as it made its way up the East Coast. 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