{"id":5840,"date":"2011-08-24T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/24\/links-for-2011-08-24\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T08:17:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:17:51","slug":"links-for-2011-08-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/24\/links-for-2011-08-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-08-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/2011\/08\/23\/to-my-ultra-rich-readers-in-the-unlikely-event-i-have-any\/'>To my ultra-rich readers (in the unlikely event I have any) | slacktivist<\/a>\n<p>&quot;Those seem to be the options. You can either risk losing a big pile of money for the slim chance of a decent return or you can give up on the idea of a decent return just to avoid losing a big pile of money.<\/p>\n<p> But what if I told you there was another option? What if I told you that right now you have a chance to make your money go farther and do more than it ever could have done just four years ago before the world&#8217;s economy ground to a halt?<\/p>\n<p> And what if I told you that this option was even safer than bonds &#8212; that if you choose this path, you&#8217;ll never have to worry about losing everything?<\/p>\n<p> That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m telling you.<\/p>\n<p> You want a no-risk guarantee of maximum return and the best bang for your buck in these trying times? The solution is simple.<\/p>\n<p> Give it away.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/thevirtuosi.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/futurama-physics.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheVirtuosi+%28The+Virtuosi%29'>The Virtuosi: Futurama Physics<\/a>\n<p>&quot;Anyway, what I really wanted to talk about was a fairly well-posed problem in Futurama.  In the episode &quot;Crimes of the Hot,&quot; all of the Earth&#8217;s robots vent their various &quot;exhausts&quot; into the sky at the same time, using the thrust to push the Earth into an orbit slightly further away from the sun.  As a result of this new orbit, the year is made longer by &quot;exactly one week.&quot;  Anything that quantitative is pretty much asking to be analyzed.  Let&#8217;s explore this problem a bit more then, why not?&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/08\/measurement-and-uncertainty-smackdown\/'>Measurement and Uncertainty Smackdown | Wired Science | Wired.com<\/a>\n<p>&quot;I will very briefly describe these three methods [sig figs, calculus, and Monte Carlo] and then use them to determine the uncertainty for the volume of the ball above. I will also (for comparison) find the uncertainty in the coefficient of friction for a block sliding down a plane &#8211; just because it is different.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.fantasy-magazine.com\/new\/new-nonfiction\/the-weirdest-fairy-tale-wishes-ever-made\/'>The Weirdest Fairy-Tale Wishes Ever Made by Genevieve Valentine | Fantasy Magazine<\/a>\n<p>&quot;Thanks to a tireless awareness campaign on behalf of folklorists everywhere, the dangers of your standard wishes are well-known these days. In the wrong hands, we all know, a wish can go terribly wrong. Now, fictional characters are less likely than ever to lose their temper with talking animals, or accept the gift of a disembodied monkey paw preloaded with three freebies.<\/p>\n<p> Then again, even if the wishes go right, things can get pretty odd.<\/p>\n<p> The history of supernatural requests is a storied one, but some wishes are stranger than others. These bizarre boons are off the beaten track&#8211;or, in some cases, flat-out head-scratchers. (Don&#8217;t worry; we&#8217;ll work out the moral of the story; no self-respecting fairy tale leaves the house without one!)&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.interpretationbydesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IBD-football-flowchart.jpg'>IBD-football-flowchart.jpg (1200\u00c3\u0097785)<\/a>\n<p>How to choose which NFL team you ought to be rooting for.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/2011\/08\/23\/heart-and-soul\/'>Heart and Soul | slacktivist<\/a>\n<p>&quot;At some point in your life this has probably happened to you. And it will likely happen again. Be prepared.<\/p>\n<p> You&#8217;re in a room with a piano. No one in the room plays the piano very well. A couple of people, however, know one song. It&#8217;s a catchy duet that&#8217;s fun to play, and they can&#8217;t resist playing it.<\/p>\n<p> That&#8217;s fine. Hoagy Carmichael was a genius and &#8220;Heart and Soul&#8221; is a lovely tune. Even a sloppy rendition can be enjoyable. The second and maybe even the third rendition may be fun and pleasant.<\/p>\n<p> But the fourth time through, and the fifth, and the sixth, will be less enjoyable. The seventh may be unbearable. And the enthusiastic pianists will show no signs of stopping.<\/p>\n<p> There&#8217;s only one way I&#8217;ve found to make it stop without coming across like a jerk: Sing.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my ultra-rich readers (in the unlikely event I have any) | slacktivist &quot;Those seem to be the options. 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