{"id":6621,"date":"2013-01-11T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2013-01-11T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T14:20:13","slug":"7-quick-takes-11113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2013\/01\/7-quick-takes-11113.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes (1\/11\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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<\/a>\u2014 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember when I told you about that awesome\u00a0New Yorker<\/em> article on the professional pickpocket<\/a>? \u00a0Well, now they\u2019ve got a video up<\/a> of how he pulls his heists.
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One thing that was particularly fun about watching this is that, although I couldn\u2019t spot\u00a0how<\/em> he was doing his steals on the first go-round, I could recognize some of his ways of distracting his mark from aikido class.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pickpocket revealed his tricks for\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, and researchers are giving up their secrets on twitter using the hashtag #OverlyHonestMethods<\/a>. \u00a0Here are a couple of my favorites:<\/p>\n

@AndiFlores_<\/a>\u00a0Our enzyme was proven to be stable for over 3 hours because that\u2019s how long I forgot to put it back in the fridge #overlyhonestmethods<\/a><\/p>\n

@dr_krystal<\/a>\u00a0Data was analysed using Fisher\u2019s Exact t-test because it gave us a statistically significant p-value\u00a0#overlyhonestmethods<\/a><\/p>\n

@SciTriGrrl<\/a>\u00a0We used predator-stress because someone said \u201cbring in a cat\u201d as a joke, and I thought they were serious\u00a0#overlyhonestmethods<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>\u2014 3 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

And while we\u2019re talking about seeing inside to the heart of the matter, check out these latex and paint art pieces by Danny Quirk<\/a>. \u00a0He paints anatomy right on the body.<\/p>\n

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Some of the ones at the link may not be safe for the squeamish.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u2014 4 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The art in the last take helps make the unseen visible, but this entertaining feature article from\u00a0Wired<\/em> tells the story of when one of their staff writers tried to vanish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Officially it will be another 24 hours before the manhunt begins. That\u2019s when Wired\u2018s announcement of my disappearance will be posted online. It coincides with the arrival on newsstands of the September issue of the magazine, which contains a page of mugshot-like photos of me, eyes slightly vacant. The premise is simple: I will try to vanish for a month and start over under a new identity. Wired readers, or whoever else happens upon the chase, will try to find me.<\/p>\n

The idea for the contest started with a series of questions, foremost among them: How hard is it to vanish in the digital age? Long fascinated by stories of faked deaths, sudden disappearances, and cat-and-mouse games between investigators and fugitives, I signed on to write a story for Wired about people who\u2019ve tried to end one life and start another\u2026<\/p>\n

Wired offered a $5,000 bounty \u2014 $3,000 of which would come out of my own pocket \u2014 to anyone who could locate me between August 15 and September 15, say the password \u201cfluke,\u201d and take my picture. Nicholas Thompson, my editor, would have complete access to information that a private investigator hired to find me might uncover: my real bank accounts, credit cards, phone records, social networking accounts, and email. I\u2019d give Thompson my friends\u2019 contact information so he could conduct interviews. He would parcel out my personal details online, available to whichever amateur or professional investigators chose to hunt for me. To add a layer of intrigue, Wired hired the puzzle creators at Lone Shark Games to help structure the contest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>\u2014 5 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may not be trying to track down\u00a0Wired\u00a0<\/em>authors, but the Calvin and Hobbes search engine<\/a> is likely to help you find something pretty awesome.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>\u2014 6 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you want to find a specific cartoon through the search engine above, but, if you want to find an undervalued basketball player, do you know what you should be looking for? \u00a0Look, if I like a sports article<\/a>, it must be pretty darn good.<\/p>\n

Here we have a basketball mystery: a player is widely regarded inside the N.B.A. as, at best, a replaceable cog in a machine driven by superstars. And yet every team he has ever played on has acquired some magical ability to win\u2026<\/p>\n

Before the game, Battier was given his special package of information. \u201cHe\u2019s the only player we give it to,\u201d Morey says. \u201cWe can give him this fire hose of data and let him sift. Most players are like golfers. You don\u2019t want them swinging while they\u2019re thinking.\u201d The data essentially broke down the floor into many discrete zones and calculated the odds of Bryant making shots from different places on the court, under different degrees of defensive pressure, in different relationships to other players \u2014 how well he scored off screens, off pick-and-rolls, off catch-and-shoots and so on. Battier learns a lot from studying the data on the superstars he is usually assigned to guard. For instance, the numbers show him that Allen Iverson is one of the most efficient scorers in the N.B.A. when he goes to his right; when he goes to his left he kills his team. The Golden State Warriors forward Stephen Jackson is an even stranger case. \u201cSteve Jackson,\u201d Battier says, \u201cis statistically better going to his right, but he loves to go to his left \u2014 and goes to his left almost twice as often.\u201d The San Antonio Spurs\u2019 Manu Gin\u00f3bili is a statistical freak: he has no imbalance whatsoever in his game \u2014 there is no one way to play him that is better than another. He is equally efficient both off the dribble and off the pass, going left and right and from any spot on the floor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a>\u2014 7 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

But some mysteries don\u2019t need too much analysis to crack<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In 1934, the second edition of Webster\u2019s New International Dictionary came out. It was a detailed and comprehensive tome that went well beyond giving the definition of a word. It included basic etymology of a word, and some variations in spelling or pronunciation, meant to give readers a complete sense of the word and its history. The entry for \u201cdord\u201d included the fact that it was a noun, and that it was a term from physics and chemistry that meant density. There was no sense of what language or history it came from, or why it was a better term for density than the word \u201cdensity\u201d was.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before physicists and chemists started writing in and saying that none of them had ever heard of this property called dord. Who came up with it? Where was it in scientific texts? An investigation that ended in 1939 finally uncovered a sorting error that spawned a word. The original term was \u201cD or d,\u201d and was bound for the stack of words meant to be in the abbreviations section of the dictionary. The capital or lower case d does often stand for density in both physics and chemistry. Somehow, when it found its way into the stack of pages meant to be words, the letters were pushed together and the word \u201cdord\u201d was born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more Quick Takes, visit Conversion Diary!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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