{"id":5955,"date":"2011-12-19T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/19\/links-for-2011-12-19\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:42:21","slug":"links-for-2011-12-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/19\/links-for-2011-12-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-12-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/doing-good-science\/2011\/12\/14\/fun-games-for-science-y-kids\/'>Fun games for science-y kids. | Doing Good Science, Scientific American Blog Network<\/a>\n<p>Any game where you have to make choices about what to do involves some sort of strategy, and formulating or refining strategies is a work-out for your brain. This means that games, in general, tend to be brain-friendly giftables. It&#8217;s worth noting that many of the games which connect to qualities of mind that are useful in scientific problem-solving are fun for kids (and adults) who don&#8217;t think of themselves as having any special interest in science. I&#8217;m not saying you should use such games to launch stealth operations to get kids interested in science &#8230; but I&#8217;m not going to stop you, either.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/kim-jongun-privately-doubting-hes-crazy-enough-to%2C18374\/'>Kim Jong-Un Privately Doubting He&#8217;s Crazy Enough To Run North Korea | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a>\n<p>Kim, who in his rare public appearances wears a plain dark suit, said he ultimately hoped to cultivate an eccentric, yet vaguely sinister look as iconic as his father&#8217;s pompadour, drab parka, and sunglasses, perhaps something &#8220;even nuttier&#8221; involving canes, a large yellow raincoat, or possibly a motorized scooter. Other ideas Kim has had for proving his insanity include placing anyone shorter than himself under permanent house arrest, issuing a new national currency every 90 days, normalizing relations with South Korea, and replacing all medicines with synthetic replications of his own saliva.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=xf6WYxLl2DU#!'>Ukrainian lighting engineer stuns the audience &#8211; YouTube<\/a>\n<p>Some pretty impressive effects, done with light.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pq8iyhMFLYE&#038;feature=player_embedded'>A Very Calvin &#038; Hobbes Christmas &#8211; YouTube<\/a>\n<p>I wish we got enough snow to make these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun games for science-y kids. | Doing Good Science, Scientific American Blog Network Any game where you have to make choices about what to do involves some sort of strategy, and formulating or refining strategies is a work-out for your brain. This means that games, in general, tend to be brain-friendly giftables. It&#8217;s worth noting&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/12\/19\/links-for-2011-12-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-12-19<\/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-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","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=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}