{"id":1447,"date":"2011-11-30T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2011-11-30T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:23:21","slug":"a-bumper-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/11\/30\/a-bumper-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bumper Crop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Often it seems that much of my time scanning feeds on\u00a0Google Reader<\/a>\u00a0is spent quickly marking a bunch of uninteresting titles as read. But today (ironically when I should be packing for a return flight to Vancouver) there seem to be an unusually high number of things that bear looking at more deeply.<\/p>\n

Here are the tabs I have open right now:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/11\/stephen_colbert_talks_science_with_astrophysicist_neil_degrasse_tyson.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2011\/11\/addition-is-useless-multiplication-is-king.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/bravenewclimate.com\/2011\/11\/30\/solar-wind-combined\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/11\/on-structure-variation-and-race\/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm<\/a>_campaign=Feed%3A+GeneExpressionBlog+%28Gene+Expression%29<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/camelswithhammers\/2011\/11\/30\/greta-deftly-and-thoroughly-explains-atheist-anger-to-the-bewildered\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.squarecirclez.com\/blog\/friday-math-movie-facebook-for-math-nerds\/6761<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.squarecirclez.com\/blog\/friday-math-movie-math-comes-to-life\/6772<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2011\/11\/the-crises-of-democratic-capitalism.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/Henry-Morton-Stanleys-Unbreakable-Will.html<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/a-jew-in-the-northwest\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/openchannel.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/11\/29\/9104597-newts-note-to-self-when-running-for-president-secure-the-website<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/6175\/196\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/xkcd.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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