{"id":544,"date":"2006-07-02T14:18:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=544"},"modified":"2006-07-02T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T14:18:41","slug":"links-for-2nd-of-july-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/07\/02\/links-for-2nd-of-july-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2nd of July 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: solid #BBBBBB 1px; font-size: 11px; background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prometheussociety.org\/articles\/Outsiders.html\">&#8216;The Outiders&#8217;<\/a> article about &#8216;high IQ&#8217; and social maladjustment\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottberkun.com\/essays\/essay40.htm\">Why Smart people defend bad ideas<\/a>\n<li>Irreverent review of <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/books\/review\/2002\/06\/19\/stupid\/index.html\">&#8216;Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid&#8217; by Robert J. Sternberg<\/a> at salon.com\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_SDGQQDS&#038;CFID=6725978&#038;CFTOKEN=46635485\">&#8216;put whale-hunting rights up for auction, allowing both killers<br \/>\nand conservationists to bid. The chances are that those who prefer<br \/>\nwhales to swim free would be able to outbid the few remaining humans<br \/>\nwho like eating them.&#8217;<\/a> (economist article, paywalled)<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nggonline.org.uk\/\">Northern Green Gathering festival<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/doubtboy\/PrajnaParamita.pdf\">Brad Warner&#8217;s Heart Sutra<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/access.lowtech.org\/antics\/AudioArchive.html\">Red Deer spoken word antics audio archive<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a3_131.html\">The true story of the guy who tied ballons to his lawn chair so he could fly, and what happened to him<\/a> (the straight dope)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seat61.com\/Ireland.htm\"\">How to get from the UK to Ireland by train and ferry<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/cognitivedaily\/2006\/06\/love_happiness_and_arranged_ma.php\">&#8216;As they predicted, Kim and Hatfield found a significant positive correlation between level of companionate love and life satisfaction (beta=.34), while there was no correlation between passionate love and life satisfaction.&#8217;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neworleanscitybusiness.com\/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=4912&#038;userID=0&#038;referer=dailyUpdate\">&#8216;The transvestites first appeared in March when they raided Magazine Street like a marauding army of kleptomaniacal showgirls, said Davis, using clockwork precision and brute force to satisfy high-end boutique needs.&#8217;<\/a>\n<li>Martin Sereno&#8217;s presentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/cogsci.ucsd.edu\/~sereno\/oil06.pdf\">Peak Oil<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemonkey.org\/\">onemonkey.org<\/a>)\n<li>See also: Richard Heinberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museletter.com\/partys-over.html\">The Party&#8217;s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Outiders&#8217; article about &#8216;high IQ&#8217; and social maladjustment Why Smart people defend bad ideas Irreverent review of &#8216;Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid&#8217; by Robert J. Sternberg at salon.com &#8216;put whale-hunting rights up for auction, allowing both killers and conservationists to bid. 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