{"id":5445,"date":"2011-03-10T06:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/10\/links-for-2011-03-10\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T06:54:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:54:39","slug":"links-for-2011-03-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/10\/links-for-2011-03-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-03-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/03\/03\/SPNF1I2COR.DTL\">When Lew Alcindor defeated Scott Ostler at Pauley<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The UCLA freshman team featured Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Lucius Allen and three other prep All-Americans. In a game to open the new Pauley Pavilion, UCLA&#8217;s frosh beat the varsity by 15. The varsity was coming off back-to-back national championships and was ranked No. 1 in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Our foes trotted out not only the future NBA career scoring leader, and a future NBA star guard in Allen, but also another guy who played briefly in the NBA and a fourth player who started for UCLA&#8217;s subsequent three NCAA championship teams.<\/p>\n<p>So the Brubabes &#8211; as UCLA freshman teams were called &#8211; were the best college team in the nation, freshman or otherwise. The Ripplets (little Waves &#8211; get it?) were not in that discussion.<\/p>\n<p>We had zero future varsity starters, and zero chance of avoiding Titanic-esque disaster.&#8221;<\/p><\/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\/history\">history<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/fxhsu\/im_4_years_old_amaa\/\">I&#8217;m 4 years old. AMAA. : IAmA<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Note from dad: Ask my 4 year old son almost anything! I&#8217;ll read him the questions and type his answers exactly as given. No coaching or translating. I reserve the right to ignore any questions that I feel are inappropriate.<br \/>\nWe did this last year (I&#8217;m 3 years old. AMAA) and there was a lot of interest, so we thought we&#8217;d do it again now that he&#8217;s a year older. I&#8217;m using the &#8220;3yearold&#8221; account name again to tie this AMA to the old one. He wants to be sure that I tell everyone that he&#8217;s really FOUR now.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/exple.tive.org\/blarg\/?p=2596\">blarg? \u00c2\u00bb Four Star Daydream<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I was wondering the other day why investment banking, which is in theory a competitive service industry, appears to be so insanely profitable. A notion occurred to me, but not being an expert in the field it&#8217;s hard for me to evaluate its veracity. It&#8217;s got a certain sinister elegance to it, though, and if you&#8217;ll bear with me for a minute I just want to put this idea in your head. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/hoye\">hoye<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewcolgoni.ca\/2011\/03\/teaching-how-to-read-a-scientific-journal-article\/\">Information\/Science | Home of Andrew Colgoni, Science Fluencies Librarian<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;By one of those funny coincidences, a day after we spent a science literacy class in iSci discussing some of the nuances of reading a scientific paper, Rob Weir&#8217;s &#8216;It&#8217;s not Harry Potter&#8217; appears in Inside Higher Ed detailing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>In the program, students are thrown into the deep-end of information research very quickly, and are expected to begin combing scientific articles in first year. 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