{"id":38733,"date":"2011-08-27T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-27-august-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-08-27T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T16:00:57","slug":"i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-27-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-27-august-2011-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve got your missing links right here (27 August 2011) | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top picks<\/strong><\/p><p>Anonymous blog written by a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/BVR0eTF\">Fukushima robot operator<\/a>, reveals the inner workings of the clean-up effort. He&rsquo;s probably a Syrian lesbian though.<\/p><p>How do you <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/K1Bxnme\">freak out lampreys<\/a>? Give them a whiff of death. With TERRIFYING video of deranged, leaping lampreys<\/p><p>The Neuroskeptic is killing it at the moment. He discusses whether sleep give us a chance to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/QGWVEbw\">defragment out brains<\/a> and your <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/jHDKs4O\">third parent<\/a> &ndash; random chance &ndash; in the context of eugenics.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/yYPsX1t\">The illusion of asymmetric insight<\/a> &amp; how it affects perceptions of others and turns summer camps into Lord of the Flies<\/p><p>A *beautiful* post on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ZTBNiPJ\">resonance<\/a>, by Ann Finkbeiner.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Having a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/w3bbM9W\">restless planet<\/a> is a consequence of having a habitable one.&rdquo; Phil Plait on what&rsquo;s with all the quakes.<\/p><p>I am mightily irritated at this count of &ldquo;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/VxDm7Nz\">8.7 million species<\/a>&ldquo;. Without bacteria and archaea? Nonsense. John Wilkins has the right idea: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s hardly an objective fact about the world. We may as well be <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/C5LaQQ7\">cataloguing toys<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/soNSOMW\">Susan Dominus tells the story<\/a> behind her NYT mag story on remarkable twins joined at the head<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/the_long_strange_journey_of_earths_traveling_microbes\/2436\/\">Tiny rainmakers:<\/a> Bacteria, fungal spores &amp; algae in the stratosphere, changing weather<\/p><p>I love that Nature News is the type ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ccfc8_L-B2JTnEeac\" 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\/ccfc8_z3AV1RSm8ZI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top picksAnonymous blog written by a Fukushima robot operator, reveals the inner workings of the clean-up effort. He&rsquo;s probably a Syrian lesbian though.How do you freak out lampreys? Give them a whiff of death. With TERRIFYING video of deranged, leaping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99ve-got-your-missing-links-right-here-27-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-38733","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\/38733"}],"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=38733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}