{"id":1349,"date":"2005-12-04T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T13:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2005-12-04T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T13:18:11","slug":"miscellanea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Miscellanea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Jeremy Ahouse points me to a small reason for pride in our profession: an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/content\/articles\/051205on_onlineonly01\">interview<\/a> in the <em>New Yorker<\/em> wth the woman who wrote their (print-only) piece on the Dover trial, in which she points out that the real predictor of attitudes towards intelligent design was whether people got their opinons from newspapers or from television:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One consistent division I noticed, and that I wrote about, was between people who read and trusted the very good local newspapers (nearby York has two, which is pretty unusual for a small American city these days) and those who just didn&rsquo;t trust them. The plaintiffs were the newspaper readers; the pro-intelligent-design school-board people were the newspaper rejecters.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>In the meantime, I am fascinated by <a href=\"http:\/\/clustrmaps.com\/counter\/maps.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewormbook.com%2Fhelmintholog%2F\">the map<\/a> of where readers come from &#8212; and in fact shall move it up the page later today. I&#8217;m pretty certain I recognise a Hammersley or two in Florence, David Weman in Stockholm, HE in San Diego. But who is the reader in Armenia? Who is in Alice Springs? And, strangest of all, who is the blob on the left-hand side of Hudson&#8217;s Bay?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>I have to write about <em>Resum&eacute; with Monsters<\/em> this morning, then go to a lunch party. But this evening I hope to do the last 600 words of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/troll\/archives\/cat_tomten_p_toereby.html\">latest troll story.<\/a> The more I do of those, the more I come to believe that I should go back when they are finished, and rewrite the whole thing into a much free-er translation, possibly a complete retelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Ahouse points me to a small reason for pride in our profession: an interview in the New Yorker wth the woman who wrote their (print-only) piece on the Dover trial, in which she points out that the real predictor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1349\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}