{"id":5465,"date":"2012-09-17T22:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T04:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2012-09-17T22:11:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T04:11:57","slug":"new-year-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5465","title":{"rendered":"New Year Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>I fear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/09\/09\/megan-mcardle-on-the-coming-burst-of-the-college-bubble.html\">Megan McArdle<\/a> is right and that we are facing an awful bust in higher education.  I recently that Emory is cutting whole departments.  And we&#8217;ve been squeezed.  At some point, the massive amounts of money poring into higher ed have to reach their asymptote, no?  This is going to be ugly.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/thehumanist.org\/september-october-2012\/a-woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-place-the-dearth-of-women-in-the-secular-movement\/\">fascinating article<\/a> about why the atheist movement is so male-dominated.  I won&#8217;t pretend I have an answer to this.  I have to think about it quite a bit.<\/li>\n<li>Was Obama elected by hordes of welfare recipients?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/09\/17\/rush-limbaugh-says-welfare-recipients-turn-out-to-vote-in-force-they-really-dont\/\">Nope<\/a>.  This is, I think, a big reason many conservatives oppose efforts for mandatory voting.  I oppose it myself, but for different reasons.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/thepanicvirus\/2012\/09\/14\/the-state-of-science-writing-circa-2012\/\">great article<\/a> on the state of science writing, the tendency of poor research to grab headlines (because poor research produces surprising bogus results) and the beauty of debunking.  A must read.<\/li>\n<li>A truly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/a-terrifying-way-to-discipline-children.html?_r=1\">horrible story<\/a> of isolation and psychological abuse being used to &#8220;discipline&#8221; kids.  Honestly, we were better off with paddelings.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fear that Megan McArdle is right and that we are facing an awful bust in higher education. I recently that Emory is cutting whole departments. And we&#8217;ve been squeezed. At some point, the massive amounts of money poring into higher ed have to reach their asymptote, no? This is going to be ugly. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=5465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Year 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":[5,21,7],"tags":[239,168,405,33],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-science","tag-atheism","tag-higher-education","tag-politics","tag-science-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1q9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","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=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5477,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}