{"id":782,"date":"2013-07-12T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-01-31T23:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T04:45:41","slug":"links-swat-teams-nostalgia-lemonade-stands-why-ice-cream-sounds-fat-gluten-intolerance-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/links-swat-teams-nostalgia-lemonade-stands-why-ice-cream-sounds-fat-gluten-intolerance-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: SWAT Teams, Nostalgia, Lemonade Stands, Why Ice Cream Sounds Fat, Gluten Intolerance, Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>An interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.stanford.edu\/get\/page\/magazine\/article\/?article_id=63151\">article<\/a> by Stanford linguist Dan Jurafsky on why different sounds have different associations, e.g., why &#8220;ice cream sounds fat&#8221;. I&#8217;ve always been interested in the Saussaurean arbitrariness of sign&#8212;the notion that the <em>sound<\/em> or <em>form<\/em> of a word is independent of the meaning.  (I hope to write on this in the future.) This offers an interesting counterexample to strong Saussaureanism.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/drink\/2013\/07\/lemonade_stands_don_t_teach_kids_anything_about_capitalism_or_entrepreneurship.single.html\">Lemonade Stands Don&#8217;t Teach Kids Anything About Capitalism or Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Good point by Yglesias on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2013\/07\/free_parking_isn_t_free_parking_mandates_hurt_america_s_cities.html\">parking mandates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>From the <em>Times<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/09\/science\/what-is-nostalgia-good-for-quite-a-bit-research-shows.html?ref=science?src=dayp&amp;pagewanted=all\">nostalgia<\/a>. Seems somewhat obvious, doesn&#8217;t it? (At least it&#8217;s obvious that the negative view of nostalgia as a disease is problematic; this positive view is interesting.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A provocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/medical_examiner\/2013\/07\/msg_and_gluten_intolerance_is_the_nocebo_effect_to_blame.html\">article<\/a> about MSG and gluten intolerance, suggesting a psychological role.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/07\/07\/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control\/\">overuse of SWAT teams<\/a>&#8212;for example, a man killed by a SWAT team for poker game.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>I don&#8217;t follow the NBA much anymore, but a convincing case for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2013\/07\/09\/jason_collins_boston_celtics_should_sign_the_openly_gay_center.html\">why the Celtics should sign Jason Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Victor Fleischer on <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/09\/the-unseen-costs-of-cutting-law-school-faculty\/?smid=tw-share\">the unseen costs of cutting law school faculty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A good <a href=\"http:\/\/mathbabe.org\/2013\/07\/09\/measuring-up-by-daniel-koretz\/\">discussion<\/a> of the subtleties and challenges of testing, a guest post by Daniel Koretz on Cathy O&#8217;Neil&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Somewhat amusing for those with literary interests: <a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2013\/07\/03\/resent-that-success\/\">The Top Ten Writers Whose Success You\u2019ll Resent This Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Dustin Hoffman on how <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/tootsie-opened-dustin-hoffmans-eyes-to-the-fact-that-a-721996052\">Tootsie<\/a> opened his eyes to discrimination against women based on physical attractiveness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A bit old now, but good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/transport\/2013\/07\/asiana_airlines_crash_stop_blaming_sfo_s_runways_and_korea_s_pilots_for.html\">analysis<\/a> of the Asiana crash.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Choir singers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-23230411\">synchronize<\/a> their heartbeats. I&#8217;d always wondered about this. (It seems that it&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> simply from the music, but rather from their breathing patterns, which of course correlate with the music.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article by Stanford linguist Dan Jurafsky on why different sounds have different associations, e.g., why &#8220;ice cream sounds fat&#8221;. I&#8217;ve always been interested in the Saussaurean arbitrariness of sign&#8212;the notion that the sound or form of a word is independent of the meaning. (I hope to write on this in the future.) This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/links-swat-teams-nostalgia-lemonade-stands-why-ice-cream-sounds-fat-gluten-intolerance-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Links: SWAT Teams, Nostalgia, Lemonade Stands, Why Ice Cream Sounds Fat, Gluten Intolerance, Etc.&#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],"tags":[41,215,82,206,213,214,132,208,210,13,209,211,216,217,207,212],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}