{"id":16162,"date":"2009-11-08T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-08-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-08T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T00:00:41","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-08-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-08-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 08 November 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2009\/11\/idiotic_comment_of_the_week.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Idiotic comment of the week : Respectful Insolence<\/a> &#8211; The anti-vax sorts are like denialists of all stripes &#8212; it hasn&#8217;t smacked <b>them<\/b> in the face with a bag of bricks, so it must not be a real threat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/natural_resources\/article6902006.ece\">It\u2019s a dirty business \u2014 the new gold rush that is blackening Canada\u2019s name &#8211; Times Online<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s tremendous wealth in those sands, and tremendous danger.  And no simple answers that don&#8217;t ignore our very survival on the planet on the one hand and economic disruption on the other.  (ObDisclosure: My company does contract work in Alberta at the tar sands.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/sex-dawn\/200911\/america-eats-its-young-first-and-ten-fort-hood#\">America Eats its Young: First and Ten at Fort Hood | Psychology Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2003\/jul\/03\/research.science\">Why dolphins are deep thinkers | Science | The Guardian<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s some remarkable behavior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Idiotic comment of the week : Respectful Insolence &#8211; The anti-vax sorts are like denialists of all stripes &#8212; it hasn&#8217;t smacked them in the face with a bag of bricks, so it must not be a real threat. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-08-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 08 November 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132954,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/01\/tar-sands-are-being-written-off-by-major-producers.html","url_meta":{"origin":16162,"position":0},"title":"Tar sands are being written off by major producers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Mar-17 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Long-term and pretty systemic drops in petroleum prices, plus high extraction costs, means that major oil companies are actually writing off their investments in Canadian oil sands. 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