{"id":921,"date":"2014-05-27T16:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T20:50:35","slug":"links-collapsing-nyc-skyscraper-ncaa-bagmen-yahoo-health-insurance-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/links-collapsing-nyc-skyscraper-ncaa-bagmen-yahoo-health-insurance-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: Collapsing NYC Skyscraper, NCAA Bagmen, Yahoo, Health Insurance, Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that my PhD is done&#8212;for the water wave aficionados out there, I will post a link to the preprint of my research sometime soon, I hope<sup id=\"fnref-921-fn\"><a href=\"#fn-921-fn\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup>&#8212;it&#8217;s time to start catching up on things.  The writeup on my <a href=\"http:\/\/english125.rafekinsey.com\">math, linguistics and writing freshman seminar<\/a> is in the works. For now, here are assorted links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2014\/04\/17\/the_citicorp_tower_design_flaw_that_could_have_wiped_out_the_skyscraper.html\">This<\/a> is really scary\/fascinating: there was a design flaw in the CitiCorp Center tower in Manhattan that could have led to its collapse. For more, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TZhgTewKhTQ\">BBC documentary<\/a> (part <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4fUwgH0gOWo\">2<\/a> and part <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IBjyB8EY2m4\">3<\/a>) and the <em>New Yorker<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/1995\/05\/29\/1995_05_29_045_TNY_CARDS_000370292\">article<\/a> (paywall).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-football\/2014\/4\/10\/5594348\/college-football-bag-man-interview\">article<\/a> about the bag men who  direct and link the booster ecosystem in NCAA football. A perhaps naive question: this isn&#8217;t illegal in terms of law, just in terms of NCAA regulations, right? (Well, except for the tax code.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2013\/09\/are_search_engines_and_the_internet_hurting_human_memory.single.html\">human memory<\/a>. I found this particularly interesting as someone who has very careful notes for a whole range of things&#8212;I&#8217;ll interrupt conversations with (certain) friends to &#8220;consult my journals&#8221;, knowing exactly where to find something I can&#8217;t remember, especially when it comes to literature.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>David Auerbach on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/bitwise\/2013\/12\/marissa_mayer_product_manager_a_new_better_kind_of_ceo.html\">product management and Marissa Mayer<\/a>.  Also on Yahoo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2014-04-17\/how-can-yahoo-be-worth-less-than-zero\">how can Yahoo be worth less than zero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/londons-great-exodus.html?hp&amp;pagewanted=all\">London&#8217;s Great Exodus<\/a>. Wouldn&#8217;t it make sense to tax such outside real estate investment higher?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On health care: <a href=\"http:\/\/boss.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/26\/why-employers-will-stop-offering-health-insurance\/?src=dayp\">Why employers will stop offering health insurance<\/a>. That would be great. Unfortunately, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/26\/us\/irs-bars-employers-from-dumping-workers-into-health-exchanges.html?ref=health\">this<\/a> recent news: the IRS isn&#8217;t letting employers nudge employees to the health exchanges.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>I must admit I found myself doing the same thing as the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/tiki-barber-thuzio-service-connects-fans-their-favorite-athletes-price\/\">this article<\/a> about Tiki Barber&#8217;s website that lets fans pay to do various activities with athletes: I started searching for the most obscure and absurd things, e.g., the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thuzio.com\/darian-barnes.html\">karaoke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>On bicycle laws: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/5\/9\/5691098\/why-cyclists-should-be-able-to-roll-through-stop-signs-and-ride\">why cyclists should be able to roll through stop signs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Why unbundling cable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/15\/upshot\/why-unbundling-cable-would-not-save-you-money.html?hp\">won&#8217;t<\/a> save you much money. Not surprising. Well, you shouldn&#8217;t get cable anyways&#8212;why not read?  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/silicon-valley#\"><em>Silicon Valley<\/em><\/a> is great, though.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A somewhat sad but quite interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/bensmith\/tom-lehrer\">article<\/a> on Tom Lehrer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn-921-fn\">\n<p>At some point I&#8217;d like to try to write an exposition of my research geared at readers with only a moderate (say, multivariable calculus) background. We&#8217;ll see if I have time.&#160;<a href=\"#fnref-921-fn\" rev=\"footnote\">&#8617;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that my PhD is done&#8212;for the water wave aficionados out there, I will post a link to the preprint of my research sometime soon, I hope1&#8212;it&#8217;s time to start catching up on things. The writeup on my math, linguistics and writing freshman seminar is in the works. For now, here are assorted links. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/links-collapsing-nyc-skyscraper-ncaa-bagmen-yahoo-health-insurance-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Links: Collapsing NYC Skyscraper, NCAA Bagmen, Yahoo, Health Insurance, 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":[50,3,81,88],"tags":[303,311,304,302,266,307,312,300,314,313,267,299,210,308,306,305,263,309,310,134,301],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rafekinsey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}