{"id":10529,"date":"2012-01-01T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T01:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/01\/01\/retrospective-what-we-talked-a-1\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T21:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:54:33","slug":"retrospective-what-we-talked-a-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/retrospective-what-we-talked-a-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective: What we talked about in February, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most read posts of the month was titled Justin Bieber’s New Haircut<\/a> but it was actually about something else. It was about a bunch of things, including #Occupy (even though #Occupy had not happened yet) and the end of civilization as we know it.<\/p>\n

In February, we also explored the question “Why is my poop green?”<\/a> or, more exactly, why is YOUR poop green. The answer may surprise you, and likely, you are not gonna die.<\/p>\n

Also this month, Desiree Schell<\/a>, of Skeptically Speaking interviewed Sheril Kirshenbaum about her new book<\/a>, and on a related topic, I did one of my “Everything You Know is Wrong segments on Human Universals. Here is the link to that podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

We did a fair amount of geology in February. For example, we discussed How old is the earth, and how do we know?<\/a>. We asked the question, Is the yellowstone caldera safe?<\/a> And you will remember that one of the big news stories of February was about an earthquake in Christchurch. So, we explored the question Why does New Zealand have so many earthquakes and volcanoes?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Nation’s (US) “Science Report Card” came out and we talked about that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every now and then I write a post that addresses a fundamental question about how people think (or fail to do so) which is not exactly a falsehood, but rather, a cultural phenomenon or a mode of conversation or something else that may be a bit subtle. In February, I explored the phenomenon of people judging others and, at least verbally, sentencing everybody to the same ugly fate regardless of what they actually did or did not do: If you do something wrong, you should be fired or killed.<\/a> If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you should be killed. Or, just go read the post.<\/p>\n

And none of this will matter unless you are well organized. So, here is How to organize your stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most read posts of the month was titled Justin Bieber’s New Haircut but it was actually about something else. It was about a bunch of things, including #Occupy (even though #Occupy had not happened yet) and the end of civilization as we know it. In February, we also explored the question “Why … Continue reading Retrospective: What we talked about in February, 2011<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2JP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28223,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529\/revisions\/28223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}