{"id":72759,"date":"2012-07-21T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T00:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17427"},"modified":"2012-07-21T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T00:26:51","slug":"the-nature-of-the-media-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/21\/the-nature-of-the-media-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"The nature of the media beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Interesting discussion on the nature of media today, and the tendency toward driving traffic via the information equivalent of Twinkies. Below are my top 10 posts since moving to <em>Discover Magazine<\/em> measured by visits. The numbers to the right is the ratio of visits of the post over the past 2 years to the rough number of visits in an average day on this weblog.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/people-of-class-drink-alcohol\/\">People of class drink alcohol\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n41.8<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/04\/verbal-intelligence-by-demographic\/\">Verbal intelligence by demographic<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n18.6<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/08\/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan\/\">1 in 200 men\u00a0direct descendants of\u00a0Genghis Khan<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n14.8<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/12\/verbal-vs-mathematical-aptitude-in-academics\/\">Verbal vs.\u00a0mathematical aptitude\u00a0in academics<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n11.0<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/09\/atheism-as-mental-deviance\/\">Atheism as mental deviance<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n7.8<\/p>\n<p>6<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/06\/genetics-the-jewish-question\/\">Genetics\u00a0&amp; the\u00a0Jews\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n7.7<\/p>\n<p>7<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2009\/01\/how-ashkenazi-jewish-are-you\/\">How Ashkenazi Jewish are you?<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n6.2<\/p>\n<p>8<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/07\/why-tibetans-breath-so-easy-up-high\/\">Why Tibetans breathe so\u00a0easy up\u00a0high<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n5.7<\/p>\n<p>9<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/11\/no-romans-needed-to-explain-chinese-blondes\/\">No\u00a0Romans\u00a0needed to explain\u00a0Chinese\u00a0blondes<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n5.0<\/p>\n<p>10<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/05\/facebook-finally-plateaus-in-2011\/\">Facebook finally plateaus\u00a0in 2011!<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n4.6<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/IJZXRUb5fpc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting discussion on the nature of media today, and the tendency toward driving traffic via the information equivalent of Twinkies. Below are my top 10 posts since moving to Discover Magazine measured by visits. The numbers to the right is the ra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72759","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=72759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72800,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72759\/revisions\/72800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}