{"id":618,"date":"2013-12-06T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unbc.ca\/huber\/?p=618"},"modified":"2013-12-06T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:45:04","slug":"beetle-byte-6-december-2013-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"Beetle byte (6 December 2013 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, that, and the next thing(s) for your reading enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/compost\/wp\/2013\/12\/04\/every-gift-for-children-this-year-is-terrifying-a-walk-over-the-thin-pink-line-in-target\/\">The pink\/blue divide in the toy aisle<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No sharks here. Just dolphins. And Andrew, your shaggy-haired boyfriend or male acquaintance, on his jet ski, in his blue polo with the sailboat on it. You are only allowed into the girl aisle as a male toy if you are wearing a polo shirt. That is how they can tell you\u2019re safe. You also have the option of being a non-human creature, like Sniffy or Nasal Congestion or whatever the dragon\u2019s name was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2013\/dec\/02\/child-christmas-ipad-gift-stick\">A better gift for any child<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The network has therefore drawn up an &#8220;alternative Christmas list for kids&#8221; that suggests a stick makes a brilliant gift. Sticks, it helpfully suggests for baffled parents, are &#8220;easy to pick up, perform a thousand different uses and can be thrown away as easily as you found it. Great for helping with imaginary games, playing Pooh sticks, building things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/12\/07\/5-differences-between-life-now-and-life-before-cell-phones\/\">And no smartphone gifts either (Infographic)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/julianpeterscomics.com\/annabel-lee\/\">Maybe a gift of POEtry? (Poetic comic!)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/12\/why-birds-can-sleep-on-branches-and-not-fall-off\/281969\/\">Birds have a better grip than we do, it seems<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The bird&#8217;s foot closes and grasps automatically as the ankle and knee joints are bent,&#8221; we read. &#8220;This grasp cannot be released until the limb is straightened again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/12\/03\/why-are-the-monarch-butterflies-disappearing\/\">Monarchs are losing their grip on existence<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So you get back to the philosophical aspect of it: How many natural phenomena are we going to kill off? I think the monarch is the canary in the coal mine telling us that things are beginning to go really wrong, when you can take a widespread migration of this sort and completely dismantle it as a result of human activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, that, and the next thing(s) for your reading enjoyment. The pink\/blue divide in the toy aisle No sharks here. Just dolphins. And Andrew, your shaggy-haired boyfriend or male acquaintance, on his jet ski, in his blue polo with the sailboat on it. You are only allowed into the girl aisle as a male toy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/?p=618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beetle byte (6 December 2013 edition)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}