{"id":187433,"date":"2015-01-04T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T08:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/?post_type=gnxp&#038;p=53033"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"open-thread-142015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/2015\/01\/04\/open-thread-142015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread, 1\/4\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0050PADW0\/geneexpressio-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-53034 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a-cooperative-species.gif?resize=210%2C300\" alt=\"a-cooperative-species\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0050PADW0\/geneexpressio-20\">A Cooperative Species<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/039330700X\/geneexpressio-20\">A Wonderful Life<\/a>. The grammatical sections of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670025852\/geneexpressio-20\">The Sense of Style<\/a> were heavy-going for me. <a href=\"http:\/\/jasoncollins.org\/2012\/03\/26\/bowles-and-gintiss-a-cooperative-species\/\">Jason Collins<\/a> reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0050PADW0\/geneexpressio-20\">A Cooperative Species<\/a> a few years ago. As for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/039330700X\/geneexpressio-20\">A Wonderful Life<\/a>, it seems to me that Stephen Jay Gould had mastered the ponderous and egotistical prose flourishes evident in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0674006135\/geneexpressio-20\">The Structure of Evolutionary Theory<\/a> rather early in his writing career. In any case, Simon Conway Morris&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0198502567\/geneexpressio-20\">The Crucible of Creation<\/a>, a direct response to Gould&#8217;s interpretation of the Burgess Shale finds, is next on my list.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve been trying out the <a href=\"http:\/\/Thinkup.com\">ThinkUp<\/a> Twitter analytic service. Not a big fan of Anil Dash so don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m just using the trial. But I think I understand why it&#8217;s not gaining traction: <b>at 5,000+ followers I don&#8217;t think I have enough to warrant the utility of the service.<\/b> 5,000 isn&#8217;t too shabby, so I suspect the market segment for which this might be valuable, people with 50 K followers, is just too small (at least at the price point they&#8217;re asking for).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been reading A Cooperative Species and A Wonderful Life. The grammatical sections of The Sense of Style were heavy-going for me. Jason Collins reviewed A Cooperative Species a few years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawqfx-ML7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}