{"id":5515,"date":"2011-04-16T07:50:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T07:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/16\/links-for-2011-04-16\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T07:50:38","slug":"links-for-2011-04-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/16\/links-for-2011-04-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-04-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kenlevine.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/how-to-create-hit-network-drama.html\">By Ken Levine: How to create a hit network drama<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Fame and riches can be yours! Procedural\/action dramas are in and you too can create one if you just follow these very simple steps: <\/p>\n<p>Always start with a couple. He must be boyishly handsome and she must be smoking hot. You can go &#8220;mature&#8221; but then one has to be an established television star, and the other has to be a J. Crew model. In rare cases you can go &#8220;both mature&#8221; (CSI: NEW YORK) but then one has to be a former movie star and the other has to be an established television star who&#8217;s had a lot of work done. A LOT of work done. <\/p>\n<p>In the (many) scenes that the couple is together there must be equal parts forced banter and equal parts technical gobbledeegook that no one can understand. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2011\/04\/how-book-publishing-has-changed-since-1984\/237184\/\">How Book Publishing Has Changed Since 1984 &#8211; Peter Osnos &#8211; Entertainment &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;One of Random House&#8217;s big books that spring was the diary of New York&#8217;s governor, Mario Cuomo. Whatever else Cuomo wanted for his book, outselling New York&#8217;s Mayor Ed Koch&#8217;s number-one bestseller was a key goal. That never happened. When Cuomo delivered the finest speech of his career at the San Francisco Democratic Convention, he flew back overnight and called Jason Epstein, Random House&#8217;s legendary editorial director to complain that his wife Matilda could not find copies of his book in stores around the Cow Palace, where the convention was held. Jason listened to Cuomo&#8217;s lament and quietly observed: &#8220;Governor, no author since Homer has ever found his own book in a bookstore.&#8221;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/essay\">essay<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/magazines\">magazines<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmosmagazine.com\/features\/online\/4214\/the-future-space-travel\">Forget space travel: it&#8217;s just a dream | COSMOS magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The laws of physics are immutable. According to these laws, accelerating that large mass and fighting against planetary gravitational fields requires a tremendous amount of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Now consider the laws of chemistry. You can&#8217;t change them by legislation. The energy content that can be liberated from rocket fuel, and the propulsion force that can be generated, depend on the mass of the fuel, the molecular bond energies and the temperature at which the chemicals burn.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists and rocket engineers have known this for more than a century and have worked hard to optimise all the parameters. But at the end of the day, there is only so much that you can get out of the rocket fuel &#8211; and it&#8217;s not enough.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <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\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/magazines\">magazines<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/04\/15\/librarians_try_to_improve_student_research_habits_by_teaching_visual_literacy\">News: Calibrating Students&#8217; B.S. Meters &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Showing students how to read critically and formulate research queries is part of the teaching function of college libraries. But how do you teach students to read critically that which has no text?<\/p>\n<p>That is the challenge Frances May, an adjunct librarian at the University of North Texas, took on when she decided to adapt her library&#8217;s orientation program to meet what she sees as a growing demand for &#8220;visual literacy&#8221; among today&#8217;s college students.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/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\/libraries\">libraries<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/inside-higher-ed\">inside-higher-ed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2011-04\/new-ipod-app-calculates-how-special-relativity-affects-your-daily-activities\">&#8220;Einstein&#8217;s Pedometer&#8221; App Measures How Special Relativity Affects Your Daily Activity | Popular Science<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;As your velocity increases, time as you experience it slows down relative to something moving slower than you. A passenger on a spaceship traveling near the speed of light would appear to have aged less than his friends when he returned to Earth, for instance. Similarly, a fast runner appears to gain time compared to a slow runner.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein&#8217;s Pedometer brings special relativity to your daily activities, showing how much time you gain by moving.&#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\/relativity\">relativity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Levine: How to create a hit network drama &#8220;Fame and riches can be yours! Procedural\/action dramas are in and you too can create one if you just follow these very simple steps: Always start with a couple. He must be boyishly handsome and she must be smoking hot. You can go &#8220;mature&#8221; but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/16\/links-for-2011-04-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-04-16<\/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-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","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=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}