{"id":5473,"date":"2011-03-22T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/22\/links-for-2011-03-22\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T08:08:09","slug":"links-for-2011-03-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/03\/22\/links-for-2011-03-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-03-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn20266-how-josef-oehmens-advice-on-fukushima-went-viral.html?full=true\">How Josef Oehmen&#8217;s advice on Fukushima went viral &#8211; opinion &#8211; 21 March 2011 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;So who exactly is Josef Oehmen and why did he write about the nuclear accidents in Japan? Oehmen agreed to tell New Scientist his side of the story &#8211; and it suggests that a minimum of research by the mainstream journalists who quoted his essay could have established much earlier that it was not the definitive account they thought it was.&#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\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/ask-administrator-switching-to-single.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Ask the Administrator: Switching to a Single Income<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;One sanity-saver for us &#8212; and every couple is different &#8212; has been a tripartite division of checking accounts: hers, mine, and ours. My paycheck is directly deposited into three accounts, each with its own sphere of responsibility. &#8220;Our&#8221; account pays for house payments, car payments, utilities, groceries, insurance, kids&#8217; clothes, and just about anything else that&#8217;s clearly intended to benefit the entire family. &#8220;Her&#8221; account is under her undisputed control, and goes for her clothing and whatever else she sees fit. &#8220;My&#8221; account is under my undisputed control, and works the same way. The idea is to prevent either of us from having to ask the other for permission for stuff that adults shouldn&#8217;t have to ask permission for. An economist might argue, with technical accuracy, that these boundaries are artificial and contrived, but who wants to be married to an economist?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/jobs\">jobs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/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.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/mar\/21\/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima\">Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;You will not be surprised to hear that the events in Japan have changed my view of nuclear power. You will be surprised to hear how they have changed it. As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology.<\/p>\n<p>A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a monster earthquake and a vast tsunami. The electricity supply failed, knocking out the cooling system. The reactors began to explode and melt down. The disaster exposed a familiar legacy of poor design and corner-cutting. Yet, as far as we know, no one has yet received a lethal dose of radiation.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/environment\">environment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/disaster\">disaster<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">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:\/\/arjendu.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/20\/advice-on-the-tenure-process\/\">Advice on the tenure process \u00c2\u00ab Confused at a higher level<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Some of my conflicting feelings about my time as a junior faculty member can be characterized by a general feeling of being adrift in a sea of advice. Everywhere I turned I felt like I was bombarded by new (and incompatible) advice about how to get tenure. At times the advice seemed reasonable, at other times outlandish, but rarely did it feel comfortable. &nbsp;The onslaught of advice left me feeling wholly inadequate &#8212; I could never live up to all the advice given.<\/p>\n<p>Take for example one of the most common pieces of advice given to junior faculty, &#8220;Find yourself a mentor.&#8221; This advice is akin to telling a single person who wishes s\/he was married, &#8220;Find yourself a spouse.&#8221; One can&#8217;t simply grab the nearest person and make him or her a mentor. Yet every article I read about the importance of finding a mentor outside your department made me feel like a failure for not having one. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/jobs\">jobs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/tenure\">tenure<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/confused-higher-level\">confused-higher-level<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leiterreports.typepad.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/philosophy-signals.html\">Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: &#8220;Philosophy Referee Hand Signals&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">In case you find yourself needing to referee an intellectual dispute before somebody throws an ashtray.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bettermyths.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/sir-gawain-is-guy-who-only-accepts.html\">Myths RETOLD: Sir Gawain is a guy who only accepts shitty propositions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;and the green knight is like shut up<br \/>\nlook<br \/>\ni am trying to find a knight for an idiotic adventure<br \/>\nhave I come to the right place?<br \/>\nand Arthur is like YOU CERTAINLY HAVE<br \/>\nand the knight is like great<br \/>\nok here&#8217;s what you do<br \/>\npick one of your knights, and he gets to hit me once<br \/>\nwith my axe<br \/>\nand if I survive I get to hit him back one year from now<br \/>\nso basically like that game where I kick you in the nuts<br \/>\nand then you kick me in the nuts<br \/>\nand so on<br \/>\nexcept you get to go first<br \/>\nand we are playing with AXES<br \/>\nand Arthur is like THAT DOES NOT SOUND SUSPICIOUS AT ALL&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/stories\">stories<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/fantasy\">fantasy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Josef Oehmen&#8217;s advice on Fukushima went viral &#8211; opinion &#8211; 21 March 2011 &#8211; New Scientist &#8220;So who exactly is Josef Oehmen and why did he write about the nuclear accidents in Japan? 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