{"id":1174,"date":"2013-03-13T10:39:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2013-03-13T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T14:39:40","slug":"wednesday-links-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/13\/wednesday-links-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin McGinn, in the New York Review of books, has plenty to say to Ray Kurzweil (and anyone else who thinks that brains are like computers) in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2013\/mar\/21\/homunculism\/?pagination=false\" title=\"Homunculism\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of &#8220;How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The only people who think that there&#8217;s such a thing as genetic determinism are environmental determinists.  So over at Discover online, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/03\/an-anthropologist-explains-the-gene\/#more-20385\" title=\"Anthropologist explains the gene\" target=\"_blank\">An anthropologist explains the gene!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If these <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ynkv8\" title=\"porn stars before and after\" target=\"_blank\">porn stars<\/a>&#8216; before pictures were put up on facebook, there&#8217;d be no shortage of nasty comments about their looks.  The transformations are amazing &#8211; and show how deceptive makeup can be!<\/p>\n<p>Scientific American shares some interesting history about, um, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=toilet-tissue-anthropologists-uncover-all-the-ways-weve-wiped\" title=\"Butt wiping\" target=\"_blank\">butt-wiping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if you&#8217;re going to major in something dangerous, it helps to be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/granades.com\/2013\/03\/07\/one-time-science-tried-to-kill-me\/\" title=\"science tried to kill me\" target=\"_blank\">laugh about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw the video of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O3T_RfJ6KPs\" title=\"Graham Hill's apartment\" target=\"_blank\">amazing small space<\/a>, I didn&#8217;t think about much else but how cool it was.  <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5989989\/it-would-be-great-if-millionaires-would-not-lecture-us-on-living-with-less\" title=\"Gawker notes hypocrisy\" target=\"_blank\">Gawker<\/a>, on the other hand, has some insightful things to say about its owner&#8217;s exhortation to &#8220;live with less.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OTTERZ!!!<\/p>\n<p>I saw this adorable page of what looked like a pet otter.  Obviously, I <strong>needed<\/strong> to read it in English to find out um, what goes into <del datetime=\"2013-03-07T16:49:01+00:00\">obtaining<\/del> caring for one of these sweet little creatures.  Let&#8217;s just say that <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&#038;tl=en&#038;js=n&#038;prev=_t&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;eotf=1&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.livedoor.jp%2Fkotsume_fn2%2Farchives%2F51901283.html&#038;act=url\" title=\"Otter, translated\" target=\"_blank\">Google translate<\/a> still has a few bugs to work out! 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