{"id":1720,"date":"2010-05-23T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:00:20","slug":"bookmarks_for_may_2nd_through_may_23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/bookmarks_for_may_2nd_through_may_23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for May 2nd through May 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinyin.info\/readings\/texts\/moser.html\">Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard<\/a> &#8211; Whatever the reason they started, every single person who has undertaken to study Chinese sooner or later asks themselves &quot;Why in the world am I doing this?&quot; Those who can still remember their original goals will wisely abandon the attempt then and there, since nothing could be worth all that tedious struggle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/05\/21\/radioactive-carbon-science-technology-breakthroughs-teeth.html\">The Radioactive Clock In Your Teeth<\/a> &#8211; How bomb testing in the 1950s is helping scientists determine a person&#39;s age.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/13\/sports\/13runner.html\">NY Times: Diet and Exercise to the Extremes<\/a> &#8211; The ultramarathoner Scott Jurek needs 5,000 to 8,000 calories a day to fuel his running regimen, and he gets them without consuming any animal products.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html\">Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team | Video on TED.com<\/a> &#8211; Some research into the &quot;marshmallow problem&quot; , where teams try to build the tallest tower out of dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Which kind of team will win, and why?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lies_damned_lies_and_statistics_about_tedtalks.html\">Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)<\/a> &#8211; Using statistical analysis on TEDTalks to come up with a metric for creating &quot;the optimum TEDTalk&quot; based on user ratings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard &#8211; Whatever the reason they started, every single person who has undertaken to study Chinese sooner or later asks themselves &quot;Why in the world am I doing this?&quot; Those who can still remember their original goals will wisely abandon the attempt then and there, [&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":[75,367,494,476,76,212,149,25,487,472,382,35,69,495,336,477,488,263,481,122,471,438,470,482,24,178,181],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourites_on_the_web","tag-bookmarks","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-creativity","tag-delicious","tag-design","tag-diet","tag-food","tag-forensics","tag-funny","tag-humour","tag-language","tag-learning","tag-linguistics","tag-nutrition","tag-prototyping","tag-radioactivity","tag-reading","tag-running","tag-science","tag-statistics","tag-teams","tag-ted","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian","tag-video","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}