{"id":36295,"date":"2011-06-18T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-18-june-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-06-18T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:00:30","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-18-june-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-18-june-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (18 June 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top picks<\/strong><\/p><p>&ldquo;There is little validity to concerns that people who use social networks experience smaller social networks, less closeness, or are exposed to less diversity.&rdquo; Pew <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2011\/06\/are-americans-becoming-more-isolated-and-apathetic-maybe-pew-says-but-dont-blame-facebook\/\">kicks the echo-chamber meme in the groin<\/a> with the steel-capped boot of data.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Gathered inside a little-known research centre in southern Louisiana, the people who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2011\/110615\/full\/474268a.html\">oversee chimpanzee research<\/a> in the United States were preparing to battle for the survival of their enterprise.&rdquo; Meanwhile, an editorial <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v474\/n7351\/full\/474252a.html\">sums up the current debate<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/13\/137029208\/heart-with-no-beat-offers-hope-of-new-lease-on-life\">No heartbeat. No pulse<\/a>. But very much alive. The artificial heart that doesn&rsquo;t beat<\/p><p>&ldquo;Something happened! Sehwag is out! We&rsquo;re not sure why.&rdquo; Two Americans who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/6657523\/view\/full\/so-cricket-maybe\">know nowt about cricket<\/a> live-blog a full game. Pure genius.<\/p><p>Genome study <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2011\/110615\/full\/news.2011.368.html\">solves twins&rsquo; mystery condition<\/a>. Great piece by Erika Check Hayden<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toxel.com\/inspiration\/2011\/02\/18\/the-invisible-man\/\">Liu Bolin<\/a>, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toxel.com\/inspiration\/2009\/10\/04\/camouflage-art-by-liu-bolin\/\">camouflage man<\/a>. These photos are just ridiculous. And continuing the theme, &ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/07\/invisible-inc\/8523\/1\/\">Turning the human form into background noise<\/a>&rdquo; &ndash; awesome profile of a master of camouflage<\/p><p>&ldquo;So do we <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/observations\/2011\/06\/alien_invasions_do_they_deserv.php\">over-vilify invasive species<\/a>? No, we don&rsquo;t.&rdquo; An excellent riposte by Christie Wilcox<\/p><p>You may have heard about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/neuroanthropology\/2011\/06\/14\/getting-around-by-sound-human-echolocation\/\">blind people who can use sonar like bats<\/a>. But you&rsquo;ve never read anything this good about it<\/p><p>&ldquo;Again and again<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/2011\/06\/did_stephen_jay_gould_fudge_hi.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+news\/rss\/the_great_beyond+%28The+Great+Beyond+-+Blog+Posts%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">, [Stephen Jay] Gould<\/a> ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bf678_YVT5ephl3QU\" 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\/bf678_NfbG3TUvsC4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top picks&ldquo;There is little validity to concerns that people who use social networks experience smaller social networks, less closeness, or are exposed to less diversity.&rdquo; Pew kicks the echo-chamber meme in the groin with the steel-capped boot of data.&ldquo;Gathered inside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-18-june-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-36295","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\/36295"}],"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=36295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}