{"id":38964,"date":"2011-03-22T21:58:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2011-03-22T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T05:58:41","slug":"around-the-web-%e2%80%93-march-22nd-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/22\/around-the-web-%e2%80%93-march-22nd-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Web \u2013 March 22nd, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/23\/world\/asia\/23yongding.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;%23038;emc=rss\">Monuments to Clan Life Are Losing Their Appeal<\/a>. A rule of thumb is that the Chinese tend to emphasize permanent architecture less than other societies, probably due to the tendency not to use durable materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2289095\/\">The Next Bubble: Farmland<\/a>. Did not know: &#8220;And large-scale farmland bubbles are quite rare: There was only one in the United States in the entire 20th century, during the great population scare of the 1970s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/22\/science\/22evolve.html?pagewanted=print\">Tortoise and Hare, in a Laboratory Flask<\/a>. Carl on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/331\/6023\/1433.abstract\">new paper<\/a> out of the Lenski lab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/03\/110322105740.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Unknown Animals Nearly Invisible Yet There<\/a>. There aren&#8217;t enough labor hours to catalog the tree of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/22\/us\/politics\/22barbour.html\">A Proud \u2018Lobbyist\u2019 and \u2018Southerner\u2019 Weighs \u2018President\u2019<\/a>. We haven&#8217;t had a fat president in nearly 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/22\/world\/europe\/22iht-energy22.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Europe\u2019s Rift Over Energy Is Widened by France<\/a>.  Go France!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/lw\/4ul\/less_wrong_nyc_case_study_of_a_successful\/\">Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter<\/a>. Brass tacks: what&#8217;s the rate of drop of proportion of virgins over the course of the past year?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2288751\/\">Law of Averages<\/a>. Finally, people are responding to the disincentives of low-tier law school attendance!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/03\/110321134500.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Vaccine to Cure Asthma Brought on by House Dust Mite Allergies?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/22\/science\/22obdog.html?hpw=&#038;pagewanted=print\">Canine Genetic Wrinkle Has Human Potential<\/a>. Dog genetics yields important insights &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monuments to Clan Life Are Losing Their Appeal. A rule of thumb is that the Chinese tend to emphasize permanent architecture less than other societies, probably due to the tendency not to use durable materials.<br \/>\nThe Next Bubble: Farmland. Did not know: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,246,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-daily-data-dump","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964","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=38964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39018,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38964\/revisions\/39018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}