{"id":35078,"date":"2011-05-07T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-7-may-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-05-07T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T15:18:41","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-7-may-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-7-may-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (7 May 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top thirteen picks<\/strong><\/p><p>This Pulitzer-winning series on a desperate bid to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/dYw5TV\">identify and treat a rare genetic disorder<\/a> is incredible science writing. Truly incredible. You have to read it (and the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/latest-news\/als-morning-meeting\/128649\/how-pulitzer-prize-winning-explanatory-reporting-project-humanizes-science-of-genetic-detection\/\">story behind the story<\/a>).<\/p><p>BLOODY HELL!! Those are whale sharks! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/J8kuZ9\">420 of them<\/a>! Read Al Dove&rsquo;s take on his own paper for a textbook example of a scientist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2011\/04\/inside-the-outside\/\">blogging their own work<\/a>.<\/p><p>&ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/04\/29\/darwin-meets-the-citizen-scientists\/\">Charles Darwin was the original crowd-sourced scientist<\/a>.&rdquo; Carl Zimmer on the wonderfully named &ldquo;Evolution Megalab&rdquo;<\/p><p>Forget arseniclife. Here&rsquo;s Deborah Blum with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/speakeasyscience\/2011\/05\/01\/a-lost-girl-remembered\/\">a moving tale of arsenic death<\/a><\/p><p>If you read one thing this month on the challenges of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/emilybellwether.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/02\/real-time-all-the-time-why-every-news-organisation-has-to-be-live\/\">live, real-time, breaking news<\/a>, read this by Emily Bell.<\/p><p>I loved this New Yorker profile on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/04\/25\/110425fa_fact_bilger\">David Eagleman<\/a> and his research on how the brain deals with time<\/p><p>This is why it&rsquo;s important for journalists to get it right first time round: Vaughan Bell on why <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mindhacks.com\/2011\/05\/04\/why-the-truth-will-out-but-doesnt-sink-in\/\">retractions fall on deaf ears<\/a>.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Are there circumstances in which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/wonderland\/2011\/05\/03\/let-them-eat-kittens\/\">feeding kittens to boa constrictors<\/a> might be morally acceptable?&rdquo; by Emily Anthes<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/05\/the-sad-reason-we-reason\/\">Do we reason to find truth<\/a> or simply to create more persuasive arguments? Jonah Lehrer on a compelling new hypothesis<\/p><p>Don&rsquo;t read this in company. You will cry. &ldquo;Here it ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/889e6_csyFukidaGM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/889e6_XKEsQqzwodo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top thirteen picksThis Pulitzer-winning series on a desperate bid to identify and treat a rare genetic disorder is incredible science writing. Truly incredible. You have to read it (and the story behind the story).BLOODY HELL!! Those are whale sharks! 420 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-7-may-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.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-35078","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\/35078"}],"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=35078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}