{"id":496,"date":"2009-01-13T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=496"},"modified":"2009-01-13T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T04:11:19","slug":"geeky-soccer-thicklinks-1-13-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/01\/13\/geeky-soccer-thicklinks-1-13-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeky Soccer ThickLinks 1-13-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Done with Internet and Politics syllabus, on to Public Policy.  Speaking of public policy (what you guys call Social Problems), if you guys aren&#8217;t aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/\">TED<\/a>, it is an amazing teaching resource.  I showed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html\">Hans Rosling<\/a> talk to my Research Methods class (It would work equally well for social inequality or race, class, gender).  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen students that excited about data!  It wasn&#8217;t natural \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>On to<em> le liens \u00e9pais<\/em> I think that&#8217;s ThickLinks in French.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/typepad\/ucpress\/ucpresslog\/~3\/511222070\/women-of-the-klan.html\">Women of the Klan &#8211; UC Press Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2009\/01\/the_obama_effect.html\">From Andrew &#8211; The Obama Effect?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/joi-ito\/weblog\/~3\/511395428\/al-jazeera-laun.html\">Al Jazeera makes its Gaza coverage available to the public under Creative Commons license via Jo Ito&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/SociologicalImagesSeeingIsBelieving\/~3\/511398851\/\">Great infographic on international migration in Good Magazine &#8211; from our friends at Sociological Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and please indulge my soccer geekdom:<\/p>\n<p>Landon Donovan with a nice goal in a friendly for Bayern Munich (around 5 minute mark)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nmy1LhWvUo0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Done with Internet and Politics syllabus, on to Public Policy. Speaking of public policy (what you guys call Social Problems), if you guys aren&#8217;t aware of TED, it is an amazing teaching resource. I showed this Hans Rosling talk to my Research Methods class (It would work equally well for social inequality or race, class, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[949,948,362,946,465,194,85,119,947],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-creative-commons","tag-gaza","tag-images","tag-kland","tag-migration","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-poverty","tag-soccer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}