{"id":42929,"date":"2011-08-03T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13365"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T21:53:41","slug":"around-the-web-%e2%80%93-august-3rd-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/03\/around-the-web-%e2%80%93-august-3rd-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Web \u2013 August 3rd, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultureofscience.com\/\">Culture of Science<\/a>. The peripatetic Sheril Kirshenbaum&#8217;s new weblog. Though I think she&#8217;s going to stay put for a while now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arbesman.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/the-life-spans-of-empires\/\">The Life-Spans of Empires<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be talking about this paper soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/08\/110802180820.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Academics &#8216;Guest Authoring&#8217; Ghostwritten Medical Journal Articles Should Be Charged With Fraud, Legal Experts Argue<\/a>. Crankery in the area of medicine flourishes in part due to natural cognitive biases, but also because there are many cases of crookedness and manufactured science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/PqVv9-Myn3E\/110802180835.htm\">First Large Study to Find HIV Epidemic Among Gays in the Middle East<\/a>. Seems to be following the Western model. <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/08\/110802180825.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Are Pet Owners Healthier and Happier? Maybe Not\u2026<\/a> Would that it were true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/08\/110803102844.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Is Our Universe Inside a Bubble? First Observational Test of the &#8216;Multiverse&#8217;<\/a>. I&#8217;m too ignorant to comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0020988?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+plosone\/GeneticsandGenomics+(PLoS+ONE+Alerts:+Genetics+and+Genomics)\">Copy Number Variation in Familial Parkinson Disease<\/a>. More than SNPs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/drunken-ben-bernanke-tells-everyone-at-neighborhoo,21059\/\">Drunken Ben Bernanke Tells Everyone At Neighborhood Bar How Screwed U.S. Economy Really Is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/04\/technology\/germany-investigates-facebook-tagging.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;%23038;emc=rss\">Germany Investigating Facebook Tagging Feature<\/a>. Unless there&#8217;s a &#8220;Bulterian Jihad&#8221; the transparent society is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/sciencenotfiction\/2011\/08\/03\/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-animal-enhancement-as-a-tool-of-liberation\/\">Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Animal Enhancement as a Tool of Liberation<\/a>. Remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uplift_Universe\">Uplift Universe<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/08\/are-smart-people-getting-smarter\/\">Are Smart People Getting Smarter?<\/a>. Alas, I don&#8217;t see it in the comments of this weblog &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture of Science. The peripatetic Sheril Kirshenbaum&#8217;s new weblog. Though I think she&#8217;s going to stay put for a while now.<br \/>\nThe Life-Spans of Empires. I&#8217;ll be talking about this paper soon.<br \/>\nAcademics &#8216;Guest Authoring&#8217; Gho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42929","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=42929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43083,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42929\/revisions\/43083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}