{"id":23182,"date":"2011-10-24T23:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/unblogged-bits-mon-24-oct-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-10-24T23:30:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T05:30:42","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-24-oct-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/unblogged-bits-mon-24-oct-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 24-Oct-11 2330)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Climate denialism: \u2018It\u2019s about ideology, not facts\u2019<\/a> – “Muller\u2019s study isn\u2019t likely to change the minds of deniers, because more facts don\u2019t matter to people whose position never had anything to do with the facts in the first place.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Climate denialism: \u2018It\u2019s about ideology, not facts\u2019 – “Muller\u2019s study isn\u2019t likely to change the minds of deniers, because more facts don\u2019t matter to people whose position never had anything to do with the facts in the first place.”<\/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-23182","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":136307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/the-facts-of-the-facts-of-life.html","url_meta":{"origin":23182,"position":0},"title":"The Facts of the “Facts of Life”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-May-18 9:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/993668935609298944 @mental_floss My favorite fact is that the front of the school in the FoL main titles was my college dorm (Harwood Court at @pomonacollege). https:\/\/t.co\/XL0MXh0tk9","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/facts-of-life-harwood.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22002,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/06\/book-review-the-facts-in-the-case-of-the-departure-of-miss-finch-by-neil-gaiman-and-michael-zulli.html","url_meta":{"origin":23182,"position":1},"title":"Book Review: “The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch” by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Aug-11 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch by Neil Gaiman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Adaptation of a bit of atmospheric trifle by Gaiman, abetted (though not as well as he could be) by Michael Zulli on the art. 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