{"id":777,"date":"2012-05-11T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2012-05-11T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T18:28:02","slug":"tab-sweep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/tab-sweep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tab Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Murray talking to Reason Magazine about his book <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oXIsEHFCBns&#038;t=20m35s\">Coming Apart<\/a><\/cite>. (My link is to a point 20 minutes in that I found compelling.)<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Justice asks if you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=Jr8qHv4hCVw\">need the government&#8217;s permission<\/a> to work?<\/p>\n<p>A dozen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/daves4\/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus\">extremely disappointing facts<\/a> about popular music.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a vulgar expression about pulling one&#8217;s head out of someplace else. But the anatomy doesn&#8217;t really work. In fact, the brain began to grow 2.5M years ago, when our ancestors started walking upright. Scientists now think that we solved the problem with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/20140-human-ancestor-flexible-skulls.html\">flexible skulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Appropos<\/cite> the previous item, in <cite>The Lost World<\/cite>, Michael Crichton once <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=eoIozrDeJHQC&#038;lpg=PT323&#038;dq=marsupial%20michael%20crichton&#038;pg=PT323#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">likened humans to marsupials<\/a>. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>This USGS illustration shows <a href=\"http:\/\/ga.water.usgs.gov\/edu\/2010\/gallery\/global-water-volume.html\">how much water there is<\/a> on earth. (&#8220;How deep is it?&#8221; &#8220;Deep enough to drown in.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Murray talking to Reason Magazine about his book Coming Apart. (My link is to a point 20 minutes in that I found compelling.) The Institute for Justice asks if you should need the government&#8217;s permission to work? A dozen extremely disappointing facts about popular music. There&#8217;s a vulgar expression about pulling one&#8217;s head out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-cx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}