{"id":661888,"date":"2013-08-02T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=80431"},"modified":"2013-08-02T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T21:15:17","slug":"your-weekend-reading-life-without-realizing-you-have-no-smell-getting-credible-stories-out-of-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661888","title":{"rendered":"Your weekend reading: Life without (realizing you have no) smell, getting credible stories out of North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insight from the interwebs the weeks of July 22 and 29:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">A poignant, funny, slightly heartbreaking story of a woman who doesn&#8217;t realize for many years that she has anosmia, no sense of smell. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2013\/07\/smells-like-words.html\" >The Millions<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">How do you get credible, nongovernment information about daily life out of North Korea? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/listeningpost\/2013\/07\/2013727143846115819.html\" >Al Jazeera<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">How Geoff Dyer went from consistently glum-looking chum to smiling idiot. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/jul\/21\/smiling-change-the-world-geoff-dyer\" ><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">When can (and can&#8217;t) you trust a data scientist? [<a href=\"http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/2013\/07\/21\/when-can-you-trust-a-data-scientist\/\" >Monkey Cage<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Martin Scorsese on the language of cinema. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2013\/aug\/15\/persisting-vision-reading-language-cinema\/\" ><em>The NY Review of Books<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">The American Medical Association mandates that doctors cannot &#8220;refuse to care for patients based on any &#8216;invidious&#8217; discriminatory criteria like race or ethnicity.&#8221; But what happens when a patient is racist? [<a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/25\/when-the-patient-is-racist\/?_r=1\" ><em>The New York Times<\/em> Well Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/80431\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/80431\/\" \/><\/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=80431&#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\/mP4Y8dTkDfg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insight from the interwebs the weeks of July 22 and 29: A poignant, funny, slightly heartbreaking story of a woman who doesn&#8217;t realize for many years that she has anosmia, no sense of smell. [The Millions] How do you get credible, nongovernment information about daily life out of North Korea? [Al Jazeera] How Geoff Dyer [&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-661888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661888","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=661888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}