{"id":5436,"date":"2011-03-04T06:41:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/04\/links-for-2011-03-04\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T06:41:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:41:32","slug":"links-for-2011-03-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/04\/links-for-2011-03-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-03-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/the-man-who-went-nuclear-how-ernest-rutherford-ushered-in-the-atomic-age-2230533.html\">The man who went nuclear: How Ernest Rutherford ushered in the atomic age &#8211; Science, News &#8211; The Independent<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Rutherford regarded &#8220;all science as either physics or stamp collecting&#8221; but saw the funny side when he received the 1908 Nobel prize for chemistry for this seminal work. By then he was in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Youthful, energetic, boisterous, he suggested anything but the scientist,&#8221; was how Chaim Weizmann, then a chemist but later the first president of Israel, remembered Rutherford in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He talked readily and vigorously on any subject under the sun, often without knowing anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going down to the refectory for lunch, I would hear the loud, friendly voice rolling up the corridor.&#8221;&#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\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/atoms\">atoms<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/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:\/\/ajr.org\/Article.asp?id=5026\">Raft World &nbsp;|&nbsp;American Journalism Review<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;[Jay] Bilas accompanied [Bill] Raftery to dinner after a Villanova Wildcat game, to Davio&#8217;s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Philadelphia earlier this year. &#8220;We get there and people start to come in and pretty soon there are 45 people there, and they were going to close, but they don&#8217;t close because nobody says no to Bill,&#8221; Bilas says. &#8220;He spends time with everybody. He doesn&#8217;t leave. We don&#8217;t leave. Everybody loves Raft. I think he&#8217;s a vampire.&#8221; If so, he is certainly the most avuncular among the undead.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/basketball\">basketball<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who went nuclear: How Ernest Rutherford ushered in the atomic age &#8211; Science, News &#8211; The Independent &#8220;Rutherford regarded &#8220;all science as either physics or stamp collecting&#8221; but saw the funny side when he received the 1908 Nobel prize for chemistry for this seminal work. 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