{"id":29069,"date":"2010-10-09T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T18:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2010-10-14T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T21:49:55","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-9th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/09\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-9th-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 October 9th, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is upon us. I do not recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393068943\/geneexpressio-20\/\">The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism<\/a>. Too thin. Finally getting to Paul Bloom&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393066320\/geneexpressio-20\/\">How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like<\/a>. But after hearing him in interviews and reading his articles on the topic over the past six months as he was promoting the book I&#8217;m finding that there isn&#8217;t that much that&#8217;s surprising!<\/p>\n<p>For various reasons I didn&#8217;t get a <em>DonorsChoose<\/em> page up &amp; running this year. But I suggest you check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/motherboard.html?motherboardId=16\">science bloggers<\/a> leaderboard.  <a href=\"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/10\/teaming-up-with-donorschoose-to-bring-earth-science-to-schools\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=teaming-up-with-donorschoose-to-bring-earth-science-to-schools&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Anne Jefferson<\/a> has a summary of what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>For more general charitable concerns, I suggest checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.givewell.org\/\">GiveWell<\/a>. Also see their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.givewell.org\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is upon us. I do not recommend The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. Too thin. Finally getting to Paul Bloom&#8217;s How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. But after hearing him in interviews and reading his articles on the topic over the past six months as he [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29583,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069\/revisions\/29583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}