{"id":5581,"date":"2011-05-14T07:57:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T07:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/14\/links-for-2011-05-14\/"},"modified":"2011-05-14T07:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T07:57:38","slug":"links-for-2011-05-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/14\/links-for-2011-05-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-05-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/booklifenow.com\/2011\/05\/against-craft\/\">Against Craft \u00c2\u00ab Booklife<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;&#8221;Craft&#8221; today is not a counter to the Romantic vision of an artistic elite chosen by the Divine, it is a quasi-proletarian flinch often designed to protect one&#8217;s work from being compared to art, thus protecting it (and one&#8217;s ego) from its near-inevitable failure to stack up to the idea of art as a superlative. The craft metaphor also serves the production-driven processes of conglomerate publishing: books are published to fill slots and develop and extend categories on a mass scale, which militates against the individual nature of a piece of art. And yet, writers, as small businesspeople, also hope to avoid complete proletarianization (even when they write work-for-hire material to specifics as stringent as anything one might find in a fast food joint) and thus don&#8217;t dare embrace the industrial metaphor their masters long ago did. So they declare themselves to be craftspeople, a head higher than the cloth hats that used to read their stuff before everyone got television sets.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/chi-keynote-desperately-seeking-serendipity\/\">&#8230;My heart&#8217;s in Accra \u00c2\u00bb CHI keynote: Desperately Seeking Serendipity<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In a developing world city, the schools and hospitals tend to be far better than what&#8217;s available in rural areas. Even with high rates of unemployment, the economic opportunities in cities vastly outpace what&#8217;s available in rural areas. But there&#8217;s a more basic reason &#8211; cities are exciting. They offer options: where to go, what to do, what to see. It&#8217;s easy to dismiss this idea &#8211; that people would move to cities to avoid rural boredom &#8211; as trivial. It&#8217;s not. As Amartya Sen argued in his seminal book, &#8220;Development as Freedom&#8221;, people don&#8217;t just want to be less poor, they want more opportunities, more freedoms. Cities promise options and opportunities, and they often deliver.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s harder to understand, for me, at least, is why anyone would have moved to London in the years from 1500 &#8211; 1800, the years in which it experienced rapid, continuous growth and became the greatest metropolis of the 19th century.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/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\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/zuckerman\">zuckerman<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/05\/where-does-the-carbon-come-from\/\">Where Does the Carbon Come From? | Wired Science&nbsp;| Wired.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Hydrogen and helium are obviously common. Oxygen and then carbon are the next two most abundant elements. Way more abundant than beryllium and boron even though Be and B have fewer protons than either oxygen or carbon. Oh, one more note &#8211; this chart shows the relative abundance of elements in the Milky Way, not the universe &#8211; but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Why is there so much carbon? I guess maybe we should start from the beginning.<\/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\/cosmology\">cosmology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dot-physics\">dot-physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/atoms\">atoms<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2011\/05\/12\/its-not-shrinkage-its-relativity-1889\/\">It&#8217;s not shrinkage &#8212; it&#8217;s relativity! (1889) | Skulls in the Stars<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The best stories in the history of physics are those in which someone comes from humble origins and, seemingly out of nowhere, makes a brilliant discovery that changes everything. &nbsp;Such stories, however, can give a very misleading impression of the nature of scientific progress: science is a continuous process, and a closer inspection of any incredible breakthrough always reveals that there were numerous earlier discoveries that anticipated it.<\/p>\n<p>A great case study of this is Einstein&#8217;s special theory of relativity, introduced in 1905. &nbsp;Einstein&#8217;s groundbreaking work transformed mankind&#8217;s perceptions of space and time, provided answers to puzzling problems and led directly to other major discoveries, including the harnessing of nuclear energy. &nbsp;However, Einstein&#8217;s revelations were preceded by some twenty years of gradual progress, during which time researchers put forth tantalizing hypotheses that came closer and closer to the truth.&#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\/relativity\">relativity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/skulls-in-stars\">skulls-in-stars<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/researchblogging\">researchblogging<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against Craft \u00c2\u00ab Booklife &#8220;&#8221;Craft&#8221; today is not a counter to the Romantic vision of an artistic elite chosen by the Divine, it is a quasi-proletarian flinch often designed to protect one&#8217;s work from being compared to art, thus protecting it (and one&#8217;s ego) from its near-inevitable failure to stack up to the idea of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/05\/14\/links-for-2011-05-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-05-14<\/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-5581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581","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=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}