{"id":3835,"date":"2010-03-23T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:20:28","slug":"tuesday-various-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3835","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New research suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.co.uk\/news\/314426\/reading-cuts-stress-levels-by-68.html\">reading cuts stress levels by 68%<\/a>. Clearly these researchers have never tried reading Dan Brown or <i>Going Rogue<\/i>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/maximumverbosit.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Maximum Verbosity\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>New research also suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8580146.stm\">food portions have grown significantly larger<\/a> in depictions of the Last Supper over time. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bittman\" title=\"@bittman\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Ever wonder <a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmynovel.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/terms-to-know-isbn.html\">what those ISBNs mean<\/a>? We have several different ISBN prefixes at work, having purchased and integrated other publishing companies in recent years, and it&#8217;s often quite helpful to be able to tell at a quick glance where a book originated from. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Are strong female characters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overthinkingit.com\/2008\/08\/18\/why-strong-female-characters-are-bad-for-women\/\">bad for women<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Ken Jennings <a href=\"http:\/\/ken-jennings.com\/blog\/?p=1717\">on Gotham City&#8217;s museums, banks, and storefronts<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Maybe I just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand all the challenges that come with running a business in Gotham. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true that this is a place with a weird, weird economy. How does one city support five hundred abandoned amusement parks and toy factories?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that reading cuts stress levels by 68%. Clearly these researchers have never tried reading Dan Brown or Going Rogue. [via] New research also suggests that food portions have grown significantly larger in depictions of the Last Supper over time. [via] Ever wonder what those ISBNs mean? We have several different ISBN prefixes &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3835\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,16,20,21,38,10,120,12],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-food","tag-science","tag-various","tag-women","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}