{"id":311,"date":"2007-07-03T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-07-03T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T12:26:11","slug":"shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>John Naughton, <a href=\"http:\/\/memex.naughtons.org\/archives\/2007\/07\/03\/4195\">sharpening the contradictions<\/a> of capitalism. Part of a really cruel set of Cambridge revelry. This one makes me look hungrily for the nearest lamppost.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/004664.html\">very kind notice<\/a> of an actress on Language Log: <span class=\"sane\">Listen closely to Ward pronouncing just the &#8220;fir him or &#8216;gin him&#8221; quotation. It&#8217;s a delightfully odd and entertaining mixture of Lalla&#8217;s own British dialect and what she imagines Southern American English to sound like.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2007\/070625\/pf\/070625-14_pf.html\">smell of urine<\/a> from dominant male mice provokes neurogenesis in females. Does this work in humans? Do the smells of the urine low-status males cause brain damage? Because in that case, walking up the stairs in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelionyard.com\/\">Lion Yard car park<\/a> must take 20 points off your <span class=\"caps\">IQ.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Do I dare <a href=\"http:\/\/cameramentor.com\/dslr_split_image_focus_screen\">install a split image focussing screen<\/a> in my camera?<\/li>\n<li>A quick peek around the <em>Washington Post&#8217;s<\/em> Faith site suggests that the <em>Guardian&#8217;s<\/em> readers are pretty well-educated and moderate by comparison. This is rather depressing.<\/li>\n<li>For all my sneering at Wikipedia &#8212; and I intend to continue &#8212; I have to say that it had a much more detailed article on the human hippocampus than Britannica has managed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Naughton, sharpening the contradictions of capitalism. Part of a really cruel set of Cambridge revelry. This one makes me look hungrily for the nearest lamppost. A very kind notice of an actress on Language Log: Listen closely to Ward &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=311\">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\/311"}],"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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}