{"id":653499,"date":"2013-04-19T18:56:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T22:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74936"},"modified":"2013-04-19T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T22:56:56","slug":"your-weekend-reading-a-marathon-to-remember-income-inequality-a-subway-ride-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653499","title":{"rendered":"Your weekend reading: A marathon to remember, income inequality a subway ride away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a hard week for many Americans, as the Boston bombings continue to raise more and more questions. Here is some weekend reading as you await answers.<\/p>\n<p>A poignant ode to the city of Boston, its annual marathon and the victims of the April 15 bombings. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2013\/apr\/16\/boston-bombing-unfinished-race\/\" >NY Review of Books Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Far, far away in another American city, income inequality varies from block to block. <em>The New Yorker<\/em> has released an insightful data visualization of city income by subway stop. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/sandbox\/business\/subway.html\" >New Yorker<\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2013\/04\/idea-of-the-week-inequality-and-new-yorks-subway.html\" >Find out more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/andres_lozano_parkinson_s_depression_and_the_switch_that_might_turn_them_off.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/90f159c67dfa7ec0d08abe4487799bdf6a145558_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"Andres Lozano: Parkinson&#039;s, depression and the switch that might turn them off\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>Andres Lozano: Parkinson&#039;s, depression and the switch that might turn them off<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nScientists find a new approach to reversing memory loss, with potential benefits for brain disorders like Alzheimer&#8217;s. [<a href=\"http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/neuroscientists-reverse-memory-loss-in-animal-brain-cells\/\" >Sci Tech Daily<\/a>] Meanwhile, back at the ranch: Andres Lozano and his team are working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/andres_lozano_parkinson_s_depression_and_the_switch_that_might_turn_them_off.html\" >very precise deep brain stimulation<\/a> to correct dysfunction from similar brain disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Galileo&#8217;s public condemnation is often invoked to defend new or unverified science. But as Adam Gopnik writes for the BBC, Galileo taught us a more important lesson: the value of the experimental method, the essence of what science is. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-22105898\" >BBC.co.uk<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>A plan has been approved to build the world&#8217;s largest optical telescope in Hawaii. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/14\/us\/hawaii-approves-thirty-meter-telescope-plan.html\" >NY Times<\/a>] But will it be any match for the awesomely named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/teles-instr\/e-elt.html\" >European Extremely Large Telescope<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html\" class=\"video_teaser\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/28fbe154a2a247d6d9765569d7bcf36ad5da9480_240x180.jpg\" alt=\"JR&#039;s TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out\" width=\"132\" height=\"99\" \/>JR&#039;s TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out<span class=\"play\"><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nJR and his team bring the project &#8220;Wrinkles of the City&#8221; to Berlin, with photographs of the elderly pasted on 15 walls throughout the city. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jr-art.net\/news\/the-wrinkles-of-the-city-takes-over-berlin\" >JR-Art<\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html\" >Watch JR make his 2011 Prize wish \u00bb <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you like to go to Mars? Would you like to go to Mars to be filmed for a reality TV show? Would you like to go to Mars to be filmed for a reality TV show, knowing you probably won&#8217;t come back? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/16\/4230166\/mars-one-recruiting-volunteers-in-july-one-way-trip-red-planet\" >Your dream has come true \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deeper look at the feats of Felix Baumgartner, everyone&#8217;s favorite record-breaking skydiver. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2013\/05\/felix-baumgartner-jump-story\" >Vanity Fair<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Ron Mueck&#8217;s exhibition opened this week at the Fondation Cartier pour l\u2019art contemporain. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIvJ6iyGAwE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" >Watch a fascinating video of him constructing his work \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74936\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74936\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74936&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/vMXSi0X_hMI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a hard week for many Americans, as the Boston bombings continue to raise more and more questions. Here is some weekend reading as you await answers. A poignant ode to the city of Boston, its annual marathon and the victims of the April 15 bombings. [NY Review of Books Blog] Far, far away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}