{"id":4990,"date":"2012-02-26T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2012-02-26T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:17:29","slug":"sunday-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4990","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/17116689\">this<\/a> is cool.  A plant is brought back to life after 30,000 years.  I once wrote a very cliched short story about a human having the same thing happen; being woken up millennia after our extinction by intelligent insects.<\/li>\n<li>Continuing in that vein: let&#8217;s go back <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5886774\/extraordinary-298+million+year+old-forest-discovered-under-chinese-coal-mine\">298 million years<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/02\/120213154057.htm\">knew<\/a> that kids understood words at much younger ages than we thought.   They&#8217;re sorta like cats: they just can&#8217;t be bothered to talk back until they need something.<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical Malpractic Watch: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/2012\/02\/what-do-mamas-boys-have-to-do-with-the-euro-debt-crisis.htm\">financial crisis<\/a>.  They have one outlier data point.  And it seems much more likely that men move back in with their families <em>because<\/em> they economy is in the shitter, not the other way around.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=345148248859181&#038;id=729343707&#038;ref=notif&#038;notif_t=like\">wonderful note<\/a> about overcoming racism and Sidney Pottier.<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-17088173\">amazing story<\/a> about a man surviving two months in the snow.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/02\/the-death-and-life-of-marriage-in-america\/252640\/\">This<\/a> graph-laden article is probably one of the more intelligent analyses I&#8217;ve read of the trends in marriage in our society.  Long story short?  People are still getting married; they&#8217;re just waiting longer.  That&#8217;s not entirely a bad thing.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now this is cool. A plant is brought back to life after 30,000 years. I once wrote a very cliched short story about a human having the same thing happen; being woken up millennia after our extinction by intelligent insects. Continuing in that vein: let&#8217;s go back 298 million years. I knew that kids understood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[125,34,33,83,124],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-science","tag-economics","tag-paleontology","tag-science-2","tag-sociology","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1iu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}