{"id":7307,"date":"2012-09-05T07:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T11:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2012-09-05T07:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T11:26:21","slug":"links-for-2012-09-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/09\/05\/links-for-2012-09-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-09-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/kermit.html'>Confessions of a Community College Dean: Kermit<\/a>\n<p>How Kermit the Frog is the perfect model for an academic administrator.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/frenzy1.badassdigest.com\/chester-a-arthur-sasquatch-trainer\/'>Chester A. Arthur: Sasquatch Trainer : Filmmaking Frenzy: Commander-in-Chief<\/a>\n<p>From the people who brought you &#8220;Rutherford B. Hayes, Urban Vigilante,&#8221; a movie about the only Union alumnus (so far) to be US President.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/faceintheblue.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/22\/in-a-mass-knife-fight-to-the-death-between-every-american-president-who-would-win-and-why\/'>In a Mass Knife Fight to the Death Between Every American President, Who Would Win and Why? \u00ab Face in the Blue<\/a>\n<p>One of my most-visited sites on the web is Reddit.com, and one of my favourite subreddits is HistoricalWhatIf, an online community that debates historical hypotheticals. Earlier today someone asked the question, In a mass knife fight to the death between every American President, who would win and why? Someone beat me to the obvious answer that a final showdown would see Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt doing a dagger-wielding version of a Mexican standoff, so I took it too far and walked through how I thought every president would turn out. An hour later the result greatly exceeded the maximum 10,000 character limit for a post, so I\u2019ve decided to blog about it instead.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sciencedebate.org\/debate12\/'>ScienceDebate 2012 | Science Debate 2012<\/a>\n<p>Barack Obama and Mitt Romney answer the top science policy questions picked by the ScienceDebate panel of experts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/dailyoftheday.com\/a-nail-biting-duck-family-affair\/'>Ducks Cross Busy Highway &#8211; Daily of the Day<\/a>\n<p>Make way for ducklings, eh.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/quantizedmagazine.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/03\/late-again-the-physics-of-being-tardy-to-class\/'>Late again? The physics of being tardy to class | Quantized<\/a>\n<p>\u201cTardy again? Why can\u2019t you ever get to class on time?\u201d Does this reprimand sound familiar to you? I heard it so many times that I decided to make it a research question: \u201cWhy can\u2019t I get to class on time?\u201d I began this research effort by asking a friend to video my journey from one class, to my locker, and then to the next class. We put post-it notes on the lockers so that we could keep track of the distance travelled. The post-it notes appear on every five lockers. Here is an excerpt of the video showing my travel to my locker. In this excerpt, I only make it past 23 lockers. Imagine what I encounter when I pass the approximately 100 lockers between any two classes:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/lancemannion.typepad.com\/lance_mannion\/2012\/09\/shake-every-hand-kiss-every-baby.html'>Lance Mannion: Shake every hand, kiss every baby<\/a>\n<p>He clearly doesn&#8217;t know instinctively what to do when he has to deal with voters one to one. He&#8217;s awkward and uncomfortable and prone to gaffes. I don&#8217;t mean what the press corps would prefer to call gaffes, all his deliberate and calculated lies. I mean what happens when his apparently instinctive goofiness gets the better of him. He says and does stupid things, like forgetting to thank the owners of a diner he&#8217;s taken over and trashed for a photo op. In another mood, in another post, making a different point I&#8217;d probably say this is a sign that he&#8217;s an arrogant elitist who can&#8217;t be bothered to muster up ordinary sympathy for the Help. And maybe it is or it&#8217;s part of it. But I don&#8217;t know that it is or how much of it it is. I am, however, pretty sure that much of it is simply lack of practice. Campaigning for the Senate and then for Governor, Mitt didn&#8217;t have to shake as many hands, kiss as many babies, or ring as many doorbells as George McGovern had to in just his first campaign.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions of a Community College Dean: Kermit How Kermit the Frog is the perfect model for an academic administrator. Chester A. Arthur: Sasquatch Trainer : Filmmaking Frenzy: Commander-in-Chief From the people who brought you &#8220;Rutherford B. Hayes, Urban Vigilante,&#8221; a movie about the only Union alumnus (so far) to be US President. 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