{"id":131,"date":"2013-03-24T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:33:54","slug":"interesting-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/24\/interesting-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine in the blog that I will be sharing various links to articles, etc., that I find interesting. Perhaps lightly annotated. Rather than overburden your RSS feed or whatnot with too many individual entries (cough, cough <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, who I would subscribe to if there would be some way to do so without it overwhelming me), I will do this in batches. Herewith, the first batch.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did you know that as recently as 60-some years ago, London would occasionally get blanketed with a smog so thick it became dark as night in the middle of day? I&#8217;d never heard of the Great Smog of 1952 until hearing this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0114pw9\">BBC Witness podcast<\/a>.<sup id=\"fnref-131-1\"><a href=\"#fn-131-1\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> Listen to the podcast, or just google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=great+london+smog\">it<\/a> and look at the pictures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chicagomaroon.com\/2008\/06\/02\/full-j-z-smith-interview\/\">Interview<\/a> with J.Z. Smith, via Ellenberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/quomodocumque.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/22\/how-we-look-to-religion-professors\/\">blog<\/a>. What a character. Some good quotes from this. (There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagomaroon.com\/2008\/06\/02\/interview-with-j-z-smith\/\">shorter version<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d never heard of Julian Jaynes before <a href=\"http:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/there-is-only-awe\" title=\"There is Only Awe\">this (short) article<\/a> in n+1 by Rachel Aviv. Interesting.<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riponsociety.org\/forum131thiprint.htm\" title=\"Interview with Toomas Ilves\">interview<\/a> with Estonian president Toomas Ilves, about the role of technology in government. Very interesting and impressive. An important point about programming: &#8220;Once you learn how to program, it\u2019s not very difficult.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/112617\/israel-palestine-and-end-two-state-solution\">article<\/a> by Ben Birnbaum in TNR on Israel.<\/li>\n<li>For once (since back when Woody Allen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0517072297\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0517072297&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=rafkin-20\">short prose<\/a> was actually funny) the New Yorker has a funny Shouts and Murmurs. (Sorry, Mom, Andy Borowitz isn&#8217;t funny.)\u00a0 Jesse Eisenberg (yes, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0251986\/\">Jesse Eisenberg<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2013\/03\/18\/130318sh_shouts_eisenberg\">Marv Albert is my Therapist<\/a>. (Eisenberg is kind enough not to allude to certain ironies, given Albert&#8217;s past.)<\/li>\n<li>This is no longer as timely, but a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/pope-benedict-focuses-on-legacy-while-ignoring-vatican-power-struggle-a-838830-druck.html\">article<\/a> in Der Spiegel about Pope Benedict. (And while we&#8217;re on popes, the following <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5983763\/heres-pope-john-paul-ii-taking-some-swings-at-an-indoor-batting-cage\n\">video<\/a> of Pope John Paul I think justifies the existence of the internet.<sup id=\"fnref-131-2\"><a href=\"#fn-131-2\" rel=\"footnote\">2<\/a><\/sup>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn-131-1\">\nBBC Witness, by the way, is a great podcast. It&#8217;s amazing all these tidbits of relatively recent history that you&#8217;d think you&#8217;d have heard about before but haven&#8217;t.   For example, another BBC Witness show was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0138v4x\">the capture of the USS Pueblo<\/a> by North Koreans. Why hasn&#8217;t an Argo-esque movie been made about this?&#160;<a href=\"#fnref-131-1\" rev=\"footnote\">&#8617;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"fn-131-2\">\nA discerning reader points out that this video is probably a hoax, presumably done by papal impersonator <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_Greytak\">Gene Greytak<\/a>. I would prefer to be like the child who, upon hearing that Santa Claus doesn&#8217;t exist, continues to hold out hope of belief. I&#8217;ll point out that the &#8220;pope&#8221; in this video is batting left-handed. Google News has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1893&amp;dat=19960208&amp;id=q8QfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=h9gEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2424,5076257\">picture<\/a> of Gene Greytak batting <em>right-handed<\/em> in his papal outfit, under the caption &#8220;But the pope&#8217;s left-handed&#8221;. (This is from the February 8, 1996, <em>Southeast Missourian<\/em>.) It&#8217;s not terribly clear from cursory web-searching whether Pope John Paul was in fact left-handed or not&#8212;it could have been a newspaper editor having fun with the caption&#8212;but he was wounded in his right arm (and left hand) in an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_John_Paul_II_assassination_attempt\">assassination attempt<\/a>, so it&#8217;s plausible that he would have batted left-handed. It&#8217;s all very sinister&#8230;&#160;<a href=\"#fnref-131-2\" rev=\"footnote\">&#8617;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine in the blog that I will be sharing various links to articles, etc., that I find interesting. Perhaps lightly annotated. Rather than overburden your RSS feed or whatnot with too many individual entries (cough, cough Andrew Sullivan, who I would subscribe to if there would be some way to do so without it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/24\/interesting-links\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interesting Links&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,114],"tags":[19,14,45,21,20,29,18],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}