{"id":1177,"date":"2007-11-20T14:53:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2007-11-20T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T18:53:58","slug":"ultimate-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John Naughton I have just stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/talks.cam.ac.uk\/\">a site which appears to list every public or semi-public talk<\/a> being given in or around Cambridge University. It is a glorious searchable toyshop of interesting ideas and almost the best thing about it is that each talk is accompanied by a sidebar listing others that seem almost entirely random. So I went from<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talks.cam.ac.uk\/talk\/index\/8957\">What the Media are doing to our politics<\/a> (where I will be this evening) to<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talks.cam.ac.uk\/talk\/index\/8042\">What is meaning, does it reside in the brain, and, if yes, where?<\/a> via<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talks.cam.ac.uk\/talk\/index\/8199\">Saving equality from the dustbin of history: a refutation of the &#8216;meritocracy thesis&#8217; from The Bell Curve<\/a> (The lecturer is Flynn of That Effect) and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talks.cam.ac.uk\/talk\/index\/8253\">Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages<\/a> which led to<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talks.cam.ac.uk\/talk\/index\/7830\">What goes wrong when speakers stutter?<\/a> and, tomorrow &#8212;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talks.cam.ac.uk\/talk\/index\/9262\">Why People Go to War<\/a> by Robert Hinde, who is a very thoughtful biologist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And a whole lot of other stuff I have already forgotten. See? It&#8217;s like Google, but with real learning at the end of it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to John Naughton I have just stumbled upon a site which appears to list every public or semi-public talk being given in or around Cambridge University. It is a glorious searchable toyshop of interesting ideas and almost the best &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9,11,10,8,19,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}