{"id":753169,"date":"2013-05-24T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=76128"},"modified":"2013-05-24T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:43:14","slug":"your-weekend-reading-the-ban-on-gay-boy-scouts-lifted-carl-zimmer-on-rare-diseases-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/753169","title":{"rendered":"Your weekend reading: The ban on gay Boy Scouts lifted, Carl Zimmer on rare diseases, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fun stuff, stuff to make you cry, serious stuff, weird stuff. Here, a recap of all the coolest stuff on the interwebs this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 60 percent of 1400 Boy Scout leaders voted to lift its longtime ban on openly gay scouts. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/24\/us\/boy-scouts-to-admit-openly-gay-youths-as-members.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20130524\" >The New York Times<\/a><\/em>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A fantastic piece by Carl Zimmer on how studying rare diseases can help mainstream medicine. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/06\/the-mystery-of-the-second-skeleton\/309305\/?single_page=true\" >The Atlantic<\/a><\/em>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Listen to the only known recording of Virginia Woolf&#8217;s voice. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/have-you-ever-heard-virginia-woolf-speak\/\" >Paris Review<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Some cool visualizations of the world&#8217;s tallest building, which will be 838 meters tall and in an empty field in China. [<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/85661\/the-worlds-tallest-building-will-be-in-the-middle-of-an-empty-field-in-china\/\" >Quartz<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Dexter Johnson begins a column in which he explores the origins of &#8220;seven or never,&#8221; a principle in nanotech that says any new technology appears on the market in seven years or not at all.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/nanoclast\/at-work\/innovation\/seven-or-never-emerging-technologys-seven-year-odyssey\/\" >IEEE Spectrum<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>From last week, a heart-wrenching story about a man who, hit by a truck when he was 6 and living with brain damage since, finally found peace in running. Tissues required. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/runners-stories\/bret-dunlap-discovered-running-and-it-changed-his-life?page=single\" >Runner's World<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The origins of certain insults. [<a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2013\/05\/etymological-origins-of-words-related-to-insults\" >The Hairpin<\/a>]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Neat photo. The line that divides East and West Berlin is still distinguishable at night &#8212; by different lightbulbs. [<a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/YzDKkvW\" >Imgur<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/76128\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/76128\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/cf3016vEfZA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun stuff, stuff to make you cry, serious stuff, weird stuff. Here, a recap of all the coolest stuff on the interwebs this week. More than 60 percent of 1400 Boy Scout leaders voted to lift its longtime ban on openly gay scouts. [The New York Times] . A fantastic piece by Carl Zimmer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39VT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}