{"id":7085,"date":"2012-05-18T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/18\/links-for-2012-05-18\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:22:19","slug":"links-for-2012-05-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/18\/links-for-2012-05-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-05-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2012\/05\/17\/14626'>The poor and their time are soon parted \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings<\/a>\n<p>Why do I bring this up?  I bring it up because I read this article about how the poor get trapped in a system that rains shit down on them.  No, I&#8217;m not here to offer the poor advice on how to find good prices.  They know far more about that than I do.  Rather, I do this to point out that good decision-making depends in part on having the time and space to make a good decision, somethign that is harder if you are caught in Catch-22 situations, things that pile one nasty consequence after another onto the smallest of mistakes.  Are there poor people who make cataclysmically dumb decisions without anybody getting in their way?  Of course.  I&#8217;m no dummie, I&#8217;ve worked in shelters, I know that some people are the authors of their own misery.  But there are even more who make bad decisions because the world rains shit down on them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/05\/donald-duck-dunns-quiet-sweeping-influence\/257177\/'>Donald &#8216;Duck&#8217; Dunn&#8217;s Quiet, Sweeping Influence &#8211; David A. Graham &#8211; Entertainment &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>\n<p>The bassist usually doesn&#8217;t get much attention. Occasionally, a flashy player hogs the spotlight with slapping, popping, and soloing, but it&#8217;s usually just a quiet guy holding down the low end and staying out of the way. For many listeners, Duck Dunn probably seemed like the latter sort of rudimentary player. That&#8217;s probably the way he would have had it, too. But it would be a mistake to think of Dunn, who died in his sleep at 70 Sunday, as a background player. In fact, he is probably the most influential bassist of the last 50 years, with an impact in every pop genre save country.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.culturalcognition.net\/blog\/2012\/5\/15\/wild-wild-horses-couldnt-drag-me-away-four-principles-for-sc.html'>www.culturalcognition.net &#8211; Cultural Cognition Blog &#8211; Wild wild horses couldn&#8217;t drag me away: four &#8220;principles&#8221; for science communication and policymaking<\/a>\n<p>After summarizing some illustrative findings (e.g., on the biasing impact of cultural outlooks on perceptions of scientific consensus; click on image for slides), I offered &#8220;four principles&#8221;: First, science communication is a science. Seems obvious&#8211;especially after someone walks you through 3 or 4 experiments &#8212; but in fact, the assumption that sound science communicates itself is the origin of messes like the one over climate change. As I said, NAS is now committed to remedying the destructive consquences of this attitude, but one can&#8217;t overemphasize how foolish it is to invest so much in policy-relevant science and then adopt a wholly ad hoc anti-scientific stance toward the dissemination of it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/expertenough.com\/2083\/3-ridiculous-popular-beliefs-about-learning-that-hold-us-back'>3 Ridiculous Popular Beliefs About Learning that Hold Us Back | Expert Enough<\/a>\n<p>Some ideas never die, no matter how little fact they&#8217;re based in. Popular misconceptions can be fairly harmless, like the belief that it&#8217;s dangerous to wake a sleepwalker (in fact it can be very dangerous not to wake a sleepwalker). In other cases misconceptions can be dangerous or limiting. False beliefs about how we learn can be the absolute worst, keeping people from trying to learn certain things because they&#8217;ve been told they&#8217;re not capable. Here are three of these ridiculous popular beliefs about learning:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/05\/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit\/257134\/#.T7MveqUYaDk.twitter'>How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit &#8211; Yoni Appelbaum &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>\n<p>A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe for Brown&#8217;s Ale, salvaged decades before from the wreckage of the old brewery&#8211;the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. A student buys a sandwich called the Last American Pirate and unearths the long-forgotten tale of Edward Owens, who terrorized the Chesapeake Bay in the 1870s. These stories have two things in common. They are all tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poor and their time are soon parted \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings Why do I bring this up? I bring it up because I read this article about how the poor get trapped in a system that rains shit down on them. 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