{"id":5738,"date":"2011-07-19T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/19\/links-for-2011-07-19\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T07:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:49:14","slug":"links-for-2011-07-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/19\/links-for-2011-07-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-07-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2011\/07\/18\/essay_on_using_art_to_teach_mathematics\">Views: Perspective in Math and Art &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;As a mathematician, I expect that people at parties will tell me that they&#8217;re no good at math. I&#8217;m used to my fellow professors confessing their ignorance of my subject. I understand that many of my students think math is hard and scary. That&#8217;s why I was so eager to do drawing &#8212; something I figured would be easy and approachable &#8212; in my math classes.<\/p>\n<p>But to my great surprise, I found that it is the art, not the math, that makes people nervous. As my co-author Marc Frantz told me, most college graduates have a bit of math in college, and almost all have had a math class their senior year of high school. But few adults have had an art class since 6th grade. Carra&#8217;s drawing below is typical of what I see at the beginning of the semester in my course. My students enter college drawing like children, and they are understandably embarrassed by this.&#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\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/inside-higher-ed\">inside-higher-ed<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/blog\/6-scientific-reasons-social-networks-are-bad-society\/?wa_user1=2&amp;wa_user2=Tech&amp;wa_user3=blog&amp;wa_user4=feature_module\">6 Scientific Reasons Social Networks Are Bad for Society | Cracked.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We always knew computer networks would destroy the world, we just thought they&#8217;d get super-intelligent first. Instead, we got social networks, which act as a stupidity X-ray: You suddenly see through the intelligent people your friends pretend to be to the LOLing Farmville players underneath. Some smart people decided to study these networks, and found that they&#8217;re a bigger threat to society than Skynet. At least the rise of those machines forced us to band together and do things.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/facebook\">facebook<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/lists\">lists<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/cracked\">cracked<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/2011\/07\/18\/escaping-the-maze-by-unplanned-routes\/\">Escaping the Maze by Unplanned Routes | Easily Distracted<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a coincidence that shared-universe superhero comics in their published serial form are struggling with a crisis of viability at the same cultural moment that television soap operas are fighting for their life. They have the same problem of a dwindling audience whose intense loyalty to long-established genre norms both threatens and sustains what life is left in the form.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/comics\">comics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/easily-distracted\">easily-distracted<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19304_5-classic-movies-that-seemed-like-terrible-ideas-at-time.html\">5 Classic Movies That Seemed Like Terrible Ideas At The Time | Cracked.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The thing about a huge pop-culture phenomenon is that it seems so obvious after the fact. It&#8217;s impossible to imagine people not going wild for something like Star Wars. But at the time, when the checks were being written and not a single ticket had been sold? Yeah, it was a different story. In fact, a lot of the biggest hits in Hollywood history sounded absolutely ridiculous in concept.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/lists\">lists<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/cracked\">cracked<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: Perspective in Math and Art &#8211; Inside Higher Ed &#8220;As a mathematician, I expect that people at parties will tell me that they&#8217;re no good at math. I&#8217;m used to my fellow professors confessing their ignorance of my subject. 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