{"id":1703,"date":"2008-01-01T20:28:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T00:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2008-01-02T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:48:11","slug":"another-one-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Another one then."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>or all: a good new year. At xsamplex, 2008 will be &#8216;more of the same&#8217;: we&#8217;ll bring you the bad, the good and (if I can make some more time) more code.\n<\/p>\n<p>You may have already read about this one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_index.html\">The Edge&#8217;s yearly question to scientists, authors and others<\/a>. This year&#8217;s question is &#8216;What has changed your mind and why?&#8217;. If you&#8217;re bored for a couple, it may probably take you a couple of hours to get through all the submissions (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/67834\/Should-I-post-this\">Metafilter thread<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/askslashdot\/08\/01\/01\/1313203.shtml\">Slashdot thread<\/a>). Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2008\/jan\/01\/sciencenews.evolution\">more commentary at the Guardian<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>There were two astronomy articles that caught my eye, last night. The first one is about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/scienceastronomy\/071231-mm-outer-mysteries.html\">mysteries of our (outer) solar system<\/a>, specifically about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuiper_belt\">Kuiper belt<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oort_cloud\">Oort cloud<\/a>. The second one is actually a MetaFilter post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/67839\/Biggest-Diamond\">giant diamonds in space<\/a>. The post links to an <a href=\"http:\/\/jumk.de\/astronomie\/astronomy.shtml\">excellent site about stars<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The last link, is the one about the discovery of a <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/071228\/139\/6oy8j.html\">2500-year-old civilization in Russia<\/a>. Actually, the find is at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Issyk_Kul\">Wikipedia<\/a>) in the Kyrgyz mountains. For a moment, I was thinking that it would be neat if news articles provided actual topography for these kind of locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all: a good new year. At xsamplex, 2008 will be &#8216;more of the same&#8217;: we&#8217;ll bring you the bad, the good and (if I can make some more time) more code. You may have already read about this one: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1703\">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":[7],"tags":[246,128,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}