{"id":1140,"date":"2010-01-04T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:17:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:17:21","slug":"bookmarks_for_december_31st_through_january_4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/bookmarks_for_december_31st_through_january_4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for December 31st through January 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/03\/magazine\/03Braille-t.html\">NY Times: With New Technologies, Do Blind People Lose More Than They Gain?<\/a> &#8211; With text-to-speech and mp3s, many blind people no longer learn Braille. Does it matter?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isteve.com\/cousin_marriage_conundrum.htm\">Cousin Marriage Conundrum<\/a> &#8211; By fostering intense family loyalties and strong nepotistic urges, cousin marriage makes the development of civil society in Iraq more difficult.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/01\/science\/01devil.html\">NY Times: Scientists Discover Origin of a Cancer in Tasmanian Devils<\/a> &#8211; New findings suggest that the facial tumor disease afflicting Tasmanian devils can be traced to a single cell in a single animal. The cancer is now spreading like a parasite.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stickyminds.com\/sitewide.asp?ObjectId=9947&amp;Function=DETAILBROWSE&amp;ObjectType=COL\">Against Schedule Pressure<\/a> &#8211; Even when all deadlines and schedule pressure is removed, teams set up their own deadlines, because of habit &#8211; and perhaps because it is easier to aim for a deadline than for perfect quality.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI\">YouTube &#8211; Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur<\/a> &#8211; Harvard physics professor talks about the ineffectiveness of traditional lectures and presents an alternative method: peer instruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com NY Times: With New Technologies, Do Blind People Lose More Than They Gain? &#8211; With text-to-speech and mp3s, many blind people no longer learn Braille. Does it matter? Cousin Marriage Conundrum &#8211; By fostering intense family loyalties and strong nepotistic urges, cousin marriage makes the development of civil society in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75,76],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourites_on_the_web","tag-bookmarks","tag-delicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}