{"id":166632143,"date":"2010-09-28T20:34:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/what-i-read-today"},"modified":"2010-09-28T20:34:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:34:02","slug":"what-i-read-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/what-i-read-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What I read today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>So I read a lot. \u00a0Like a lot a lot. \u00a0I thought I would give a semi random sampling of what I read today, along with a few comments. \u00a0If you don&#039;t like it, just watch the amazing music video mash-up and call it good. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<p \/><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/28\/the-poorest-states-of-america\/\">The Poorest States in America<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/picture_42.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture_4\" height=\"454\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/picture_42.png?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i9qW6HEBo_c?wmode=transparent]<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>List of all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/norwegian-recycling-miracles\/\">songs here<\/a><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-09-28-pew28_ST_N.htm\">Most Americans believe in God but don&#039;t know religious tenets<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Mormon&#039;s took the Bronze. \u00a0A quote from the article,\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&quot;<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetical, sans-serif;line-height:15px;\">The top scoring groups were atheists\/agnostics,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/topic\/Religion+and+beliefs\/Religions,+Denominations\/Judaism\" title=\"More news, photos about Jews\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Jews<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/topic\/Mormon\" title=\"More news, photos about Mormon\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Mormon<\/a>s. These tiny groups, adding up to less than 7% of Americans, scored particularly well on world religion and U.S. constitutional questions. It&#039;s unclear why, although highly educated people overall did best on the quiz, researchers say.&quot;<\/span><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetical, sans-serif;line-height:15px;\">It makes sense. \u00a0When you believe in something that is different, you have to know your stuff. \u00a0Here is my quiz score.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/picture_53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture_5\" height=\"261\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/picture_53.png?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.tutsplus.com\/articles\/inspiration\/less-is-more-50-examples-of-minimalist-photography\/\">50 Minimalist Photos<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/picture_64.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture_6\" height=\"374\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/picture_64.png?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div> <span style=\"font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"blog_title\" style=\"font-family:verdana, sans-serif;display:inline;line-height:20px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;\"><a href=\"goog_17083527\">How Do Countries Choose Which Side They Drive On?<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/34094\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>I like driving one the right side of the road.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia, times new roman, times, serif;line-height:15px;\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"line-height:1.083em;font-weight:normal;margin:6px 0 4px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/15\/phys-ed-can-exercise-make-kids-smarter\/\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Phys Ed: Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter?<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<div>I hope that this works for me too. \u00a0I need to be smarter. And exercise more.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:27px;font-weight:bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17090934?story_id=17090934&amp;fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/rss\/pe\">Global targets, local ingenuity<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>I help run a nonprofit called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpcapeverde.org\/\">Help Cape Verde Africa<\/a>\u00a0so these articles are always top on my list.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<table align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:Times;line-height:normal;\" width=\"408\">\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"http:\/\/hbr.org\/product\/decide-and-deliver-five-steps-to-breakthrough-perf\/an\/12035-HBK-ENG?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_stat-_-stat092810&amp;referral=00204&amp;utm_source=newsletter_daily_stat&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=stat092810\" style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Effective Decision Making\u00a0and the Rule of 7<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:22px;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Once you&#039;ve got\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\">7 people<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\">\u00a0in a decision-making group, each additional member reduces decision effectiveness by\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\">10%<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\">, according to Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins, and Paul Rogers, authors of\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Decide &amp; Deliver: 5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size:small;\">. Thus, a group of\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\">17 or more<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\">\u00a0rarely makes any decisions.<\/p>\n<p \/> <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Georgia, serif;line-height:normal;font-style:italic;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2> <a href=\"http:\/\/gyjoe.com\/education\/graduating-college-jobs\/\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Why We\u2019re REALLY Graduating From College Without Jobs<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;\">I don&#039;t agree with everything here, but it brings up some great points.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-style:normal;line-height:14px;\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"block-title\" style=\"border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-variant:normal;line-height:26px;border-width:0;margin:0 0 12px;padding:0;\"> <span style=\"font-size:small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the99percent.com\/tips\/6313\/the-beta-principle-skip-perfection-launch-early\">The Beta Principle: Skip Perfection &amp; Launch Early<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I read a lot. Like a lot a lot. I thought I would give a semi random sampling of what I read today, along with a few comments. If you don&#8217;t like it, just watch the amazing music video mash-up and call it good. \ud83d\ude42 The Poorest States in America H&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166632143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166632143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166632143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166632143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}