{"id":6051,"date":"2012-02-27T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/27\/links-for-2012-02-27\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:25:35","slug":"links-for-2012-02-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/27\/links-for-2012-02-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-02-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2012\/02\/in-the-genes-but-which-ones\/'>In the genes, but which ones? | Harvard Gazette<\/a>\n<p>&#8220;It is only in the past 10 or 15 years that we have had the technology for people to do studies that involved picking a particular genetic variant and investigating whether people who score higher on intelligence tests tend to have that genetic variant,&#8221; said [Union College Psychology Professor] Chabris. &#8220;In all of our tests we only found one gene that appeared to be associated with intelligence, and it was a very small effect. This does not mean intelligence does not have a genetic component, it means it&#8217;s a lot harder to find the particular genes, or the particular genetic variants, that influence the differences in intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/82844849\/A-Simple-and-Convenient-Synthesis-of-Pseudoephedrine-From-N-Methylamphetamine'>A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine<\/a>\n<p>A quick search of several neighborhoods of the UnitedStates revealed that while pseudoephedrine is difficult toobtain,  N -methylamphetamine can be procured at almost anytime on short notice and in quantities sufficient for synthesisof useful amounts of the desired material. Moreover,according to government maintained statistics, N -methylmphetamine is becoming an increasingly attractive starting material for pseudoephedrine, as the availability of  N -methylmphetamine has remained high while prices have dropped and purity has increased [2]. We present here ac onvenient series of transformations using reagents which can be found in most well stocked organic chemistry laboratories to produce psuedoephedrine from N -methylamphetamine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/upuAg.jpg'>upuAg.jpg (1024\u00c3\u0097744)<\/a>\n<p>Once upon a time, there was a racist tree. Seriously, you are going to hate this tree.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the genes, but which ones? | Harvard Gazette &#8220;It is only in the past 10 or 15 years that we have had the technology for people to do studies that involved picking a particular genetic variant and investigating whether people who score higher on intelligence tests tend to have that genetic variant,&#8221; said [Union&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/27\/links-for-2012-02-27\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-02-27<\/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-6051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051","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=6051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}