{"id":37350,"date":"2011-07-23T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-july-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T16:00:45","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-july-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-23-july-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (23 July 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top picks<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=II7QBLt36xo&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Every Shuttle mission, in order, set to music<\/a>. Adam Rutherford&rsquo;s incredible tribute to the Shuttle is moving, uplifting, at times heartbreaking, and unmissable.<\/p><p>Amos Zeeberg chimes in on the Shuttle with a no-holds barred take on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2011\/jul-aug\/22-how-to-avoid-repeating-debacle-of-space-shuttle\">programme as an objective failure<\/a><\/p><p>A &ldquo;beautiful study&rdquo; on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/whitecoatunderground\/2011\/07\/21\/asthma-placebo-and-how-not-to-kill-your-patients\/\">placebo and asthma<\/a> shows the difference between placebos and real treatments. Great write-up by Pal MD<\/p><p>Jonah Lehrer riffs off one of my pieces and creates a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/07\/why-does-beauty-exist\/\">hypothesis on why beauty exists<\/a>, And David Dobbs riffs of Lehrer, with a beautiful <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/07\/why-behold-beauty\/\">tribute to London<\/a><\/p><p>&ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theseamonster.net\/2011\/07\/humpback-whales-speaks-says-thank-you\/\">We saved a humpback whale<\/a>! WOOOO!&rdquo; Absolutely wonderful video.<\/p><p>Right under our noses, dolphins have been <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2011-07\/gumc-dr071811.php\">evolving their own healing factors<\/a>. Phase 2 now complete<\/p><p>The US Army wants <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2011\/apr\/15-armys-bold-plan-turn-soldiers-into-telepaths?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+DiscoverTopStories+%28Discover+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">soldiers to communicate just by thinking<\/a>. Synthetic telepathy could make that happen<\/p><p>Read Imperial College&rsquo;s new analysis of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbctrust\/assets\/files\/pdf\/our_work\/science_impartiality\/appendix_a.pdf\">BBC&rsquo;s science reporting<\/a> (the actual paper and not the news reports of it, natch).<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2011\/07\/high-speed-suction-feeding-bloopers-edition\/\">When fish fail<\/a> &ndash; a wonderful blooper reel of suction-feeding fish screwing up their attacks<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/19\/science\/19google.html\">Tomorrow&rsquo;s role models<\/a>. These girls who won Google Science Fair are amazing. It started when she was 8 &amp; tried to make blue spinach&hellip;<\/p><p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21128211.600-kiki-or-bouba-in-search-of-languages-missing-link.html?full=true\">Kiki\/Bouba effect<\/a>, or why ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c9488_7160QeJl_Ms\" 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\/c9488_xpdUuNZxsz8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top picks Every Shuttle mission, in order, set to music. Adam Rutherford&rsquo;s incredible tribute to the Shuttle is moving, uplifting, at times heartbreaking, and unmissable.Amos Zeeberg chimes in on the Shuttle with a no-holds barred take on the programme as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-23-july-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-37350","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\/37350"}],"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=37350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}