{"id":28973,"date":"2010-10-11T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-9th-2010-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:23:43","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-9th-2010-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-9th-2010-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 October 9th, 2010 | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is upon us. I do not recommend <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393068943\/geneexpressio-20\/\">The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism<\/a>. Too thin. Finally getting to Paul Bloom&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393066320\/geneexpressio-20\/\">How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like<\/a>. But after hearing him in interviews and reading his articles on the topic over the past six months as he was promoting the book I&rsquo;m finding that there isn&rsquo;t that much that&rsquo;s surprising!<\/p><p>For various reasons I didn&rsquo;t get a <em>DonorsChoose<\/em> page up &amp; running this year. But I suggest you check out the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/motherboard.html?motherboardId=16\">science bloggers<\/a> leaderboard. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/10\/teaming-up-with-donorschoose-to-bring-earth-science-to-schools\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=teaming-up-with-donorschoose-to-bring-earth-science-to-schools&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Anne Jefferson<\/a> has a summary of what&rsquo;s going on.<\/p><p>For more general charitable concerns, I suggest checking out <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.givewell.org\/\">GiveWell<\/a>. Also see their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.givewell.org\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/01078_csbRzDqmJV8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is upon us. I do not recommend The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. Too thin. Finally getting to Paul Bloom&rsquo;s How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. But after hearing him in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-9th-2010-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}