{"id":37900,"date":"2011-08-06T18:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T18:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-06-august-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-08-06T18:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T18:21:43","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-06-august-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-06-august-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (06 August 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top picks<\/strong><\/p><p>Watch the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/14388541\">entertaining sexual displays<\/a> that cause flamboyant male Houbara bustards to age faster. I especially liked <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/08\/why-males-die-young\/\">Wired&rsquo;s coverage<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/info\/press\/news\/inside-nature-s-giants-explores-worlds-biggest-and-loudest-predator\">Inside Nature&rsquo;s Giants<\/a> dissects a sperm whale. This is the best nature programme on modern TV bar none.<\/p><p>John Rennie has a great post about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/retort\/2011\/08\/05\/the-latest-in-3-d-printing-the-era-of-downloadable-objects\/\">3D Printing and the era of Downloadable Objects<\/a>.<\/p><p>Too detailed to be true? <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.registan.net\/index.php\/2011\/08\/04\/the-schmidle-muddle-of-the-osama-bin-laden-take-down\/\">Serious concerns have been raised<\/a> about the accuracy of the New Yorker&rsquo;s piece on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/08\/08\/110808fa_fact_schmidle#ixzz1U4e1PCDd\">bin Laden raid<\/a>. Where was their fabled fact-checking?<\/p><p>WOW! Neuroscience of a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/blogs\/radiolab-blog\/2011\/jul\/26\/4-track-mind\/\">ragtime pianist who can follow 4 symphonies simultaneously<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2011\/08\/03\/what-home-looked-like-for-seven-million-years\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Loom+%28The+Loom%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">What Home Looked Like For Seven Million Years<\/a> &ndash; Carl Zimmer on where humans evolved<\/p><p>What happens when <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/journoterrorist.com\/2011\/07\/26\/paperball\/\">journo students have to make a newspaper with no computers<\/a>? Brilliance ensues. Don&rsquo;t miss the rest of the experiment as students <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/journoterrorist.com\/2011\/08\/02\/paperball2\/\">struggle to type 2011<\/a> on a typewriter<\/p><p>From <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2011\/07\/29\/ten-incredible-perfect-moments-in-the-history-of-editing\/\">Catch-22 to Wikipedia<\/a>. A cool list of 10 great moments in editing<\/p><p>The delightfully beautiful world of lichens, by Jennifer Frazer. White Worms and Pixie Cups in Colorado<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/science\/space\/2011-07-31-nasa-environmental-cleanup_n.htm\">&ldquo;Toxic goo&rdquo; from Apollo-era rockets<\/a> will cost NASA about $1 billion to clean up. The dark side to all that hype and optimism.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2011\/08\/08\/110808sh_shouts_simms\">God&rsquo;s blog<\/a>. Oh the comments.<\/p><p>Adam Rutherford ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3b8ee_PHXD-kyo3BE\" 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\/3b8ee_J3Xr30xJJEs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top picksWatch the entertaining sexual displays that cause flamboyant male Houbara bustards to age faster. I especially liked Wired&rsquo;s coverageInside Nature&rsquo;s Giants dissects a sperm whale. This is the best nature programme on modern TV bar none.John Rennie has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-06-august-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-37900","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\/37900"}],"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=37900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}