{"id":802,"date":"2006-11-10T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T08:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/10\/broken-things\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T08:43:32","slug":"broken-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/10\/broken-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would post some sort of wrap-up about the Lisa Randall chat yesterday<\/a>, but Discover<\/cite> is broken. They don’t have a link to a transcript on the site– in fact, they haven’t updated the front page to reflect the fact that the chat was yesterday<\/strong>, and is now over. There was a link that would sort of give you access to a transcript, but it’s broken now, or at least doesn’t work in either Opera or Firefox on my home computer.<\/p>\n

It’s pretty much of a piece with the chat itself, actually– I thought it was pretty sharp of them to email physics bloggers with invitations to the chat, but the chat itself was surprisingly primitive. I expected better from a science magazine. You can find a few of the questions and answers at Backreaction (with screen shots)<\/a> and from Tommaso Dorigo<\/a>. I wasn’t terribly impressed with the questions, and nobody followed up on the one remark that really caught my eye, when she appeared to call the evidence for dark matter “pretty dubious”– I sent in a question on that, but it didn’t get picked by the moderator.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a nice thought, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n

On a vaguely related note, every TypePad blog in my RSS reader updated overnight to go to excerpt-only RSS feeds, so, for example, I had fifty-odd Brad DeLong posts show up as “updated,” and reduced to one-line teasers. Thanks, guys, for rendering a half-dozen blogs completely unreadable.<\/p>\n

And speaking of “unreadable,” Mike Kozlowski is insane<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would post some sort of wrap-up about the Lisa Randall chat yesterday, but Discover is broken. They don’t have a link to a transcript on the site– in fact, they haven’t updated the front page to reflect the fact that the chat was yesterday, and is now over. There was a link that would… Continue reading Broken Things<\/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":[5,18,33,21,7,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-in_the_news","category-links_dump","category-physics","category-science","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}