{"id":4639,"date":"2011-09-19T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:32:00","slug":"monday-news-chum-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4639","title":{"rendered":"Monday News Chum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was busy, and I didn&#8217;t get a chance to clear out the links. So here&#8217;s Friday&#8217;s news chum, with a little extra&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dressing for Emmy<\/b>. Last night was the Emmy awards, which were reasonably entertaining (I particularly like the lead actress for a Comedy series bit). Anyway, here&#8217;s a little known story about the neurobiologist with a PHD who plays one on TV. On top of everything else, Mayim Bialik has embraced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/blog\/parenting\/operation-hot-and-holy\/\">the Orthodox concept of modesty in dress<\/a>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/the_ticket\/item\/big_bang_theorys_mayim_bialik_and_her_search_for_an_emmy_dress_operation_ho\/#When:02:00:32Z\">here&#8217;s the story about her quest for a modest Emmy dress<\/a>. It isn&#8217;t as easy as one thinks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/blog\/parenting\/mayim-at-the-emmys-the-morning-after\/\">The story of her final result is also quite interesting<\/a>.\n<li><b>Whole Paychek<\/b>. Ever wonder why food at Whole Foods seems so fresh? The answer is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1779611\/priming-whole-foods-derren-brown\">they use subtle tricks to make you think it is fresher than it really is<\/a>.\n<li><b>Parking Meters<\/b>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/19\/nyregion\/uprooting-the-old-familiar-parking-meter.html?_r=3&#038;pagewanted=1\">They are getting rid of the old style parking meter in NY City<\/a>.\n<li><b>College Rankings<\/b>. It&#8217;s that time of year. <a href=\"http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\">US News and World Reports have released their college rankings<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/09\/13\/bloomberg1376-LRFO0J0UQVI901-2FJ1GCJFG3CVMVMNIP8GAUU3E6.DTL&#038;tsp=1\">Harvard is still at the top<\/a>. [ETA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/18\/college-rankings-challenged-but-still-popular\/\">Although some suggest the ranking are a little bit gamed<\/a>.]\n<li><b>Tipping the Scale<\/b>. An interesting article in the NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/14\/dining\/tipping-the-balance-for-kitchen-scales.html\">argues that it&#8217;s time for the Kitchen Scale to take its rightful place in recipes<\/a>.\n<li><b>Death of a Town<\/b>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/09\/12\/MNO71L2JBO.DTL\">An interesting article on the towns flooded by the creation of the Trinity Dam<\/a>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was busy, and I didn&#8217;t get a chance to clear out the links. So here&#8217;s Friday&#8217;s news chum, with a little extra&#8230; Dressing for Emmy. Last night was the Emmy awards, which were reasonably entertaining (I particularly like the lead actress for a Comedy series bit). Anyway, here&#8217;s a little known story about the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4639\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}