{"id":1504,"date":"2007-05-08T23:09:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2007-10-06T09:40:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T12:40:18","slug":"hyper-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>inks to make it through the week:\n<\/p>\n<p>Via Metafilter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/60992\/Authors-live-at-Google\">discussion<\/a>), this excellent set of YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/profile_videos?user=AtGoogleTalks&#038;p=r&#038;page=1\">videos of presentations hosted at Google<\/a> with too many luminaries to mention in this post. Most of the videos are a hour long. As asked at MetaFilter: Do Google employees really have the time to attend these presentations? (<a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplex.html\">More good stuff<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p>I linked to the news before, but you might just as well head to its source: NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-Ray observatory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/chandra\/news\/chandra_bright_supernova.html\">recorded the brightest stellar explosion<\/a>. I read that the same team of astronomers is waiting for a star in our galaxy to go supernova, Eta Carinae. From that same page:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t know for sure if Eta Carinae will explode <em>soon<\/em>, but we had better keep a close eye on it just in case&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d almost say that was a joke: Eta Carinae is &#8220;only&#8221; 7,500 light years away. How soon is soon?\n<\/p>\n<p>The web reminds me of a commercial so once in a while: Take for example this blog post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2007\/05\/09\/9-attitudes-of-highly-creative-people\/\">9 attitudes of creative people&#8217;<\/a>. Uh. OK. At least the web is about <em>amusement<\/em>, right? If you&#8217;re in a rush, the posting at that link suggests that creativity can be learned. I&#8217;d like to see a study on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links to make it through the week: Via Metafilter (discussion), this excellent set of YouTube videos of presentations hosted at Google with too many luminaries to mention in this post. Most of the videos are a hour long. As asked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}