{"id":5376,"date":"2011-01-29T07:46:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T07:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/29\/links-for-2011-01-29\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T07:46:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T07:46:54","slug":"links-for-2011-01-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/29\/links-for-2011-01-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-01-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/by_matin_durrani_with_tunisia.html\">The &#8216;scandal&#8217; of the kilogram (Blog) &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;That&#8217;s the name of the game in metrology these days &#8211; finding a way of defining mass without just resorting embarrassingly, as we do now, to a lump of metal in the basement of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) outside Paris and saying &#8220;that&#8217;s a kilogram&#8221;. After all, periodic inspections of the lump have shown it&#8217;s been changing its mass slowly over time. As laser physicist Bill Phillips from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) told delegates during one question-and-answer session on Monday, &#8220;It&#8217;s a scandal that we&#8217;ve got this kilogram hanging around that&#8217;s changing its mass&#8221;.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/mass\">mass<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/kilogram\">kilogram<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/precision-measurement\">precision-measurement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics-world\">physics-world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/collegemisery.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/email-i-wish-i-could-send.html\">College Misery: An email I wish I could send&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Dear VP of IS,<\/p>\n<p>Let me get this straight. Did you really just send out an email to the entire University community with a 17KB Word Document attachment that contained 518 characters of information? Really?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;scandal&#8217; of the kilogram (Blog) &#8211; physicsworld.com &#8220;That&#8217;s the name of the game in metrology these days &#8211; finding a way of defining mass without just resorting embarrassingly, as we do now, to a lump of metal in the basement of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) outside Paris and saying &#8220;that&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/29\/links-for-2011-01-29\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-01-29<\/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-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","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=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}