{"id":126,"date":"2013-09-08T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=126"},"modified":"2013-09-08T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T01:34:05","slug":"this-week-i-learned-8-september-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/09\/this-week-i-learned-8-september-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned &#8211; 8 September 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/on.ft.com\/17CfIFN\">Here is an interesting piece on the geopolitical implications of increased American energy production<\/a>; worth the free registration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01snjpp\">Great podcast discussion<\/a> of one of the most fascinating women in antiquity, Queen Zenobia of Palmyra.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/technology-quarterly\/21584455-robotics-new-breed-robots-being-designed-collaborate-humans\">Very good article on robots in the workplace<\/a>. Perhaps the most interesting part is how people react to their mechanical colleagues &#8212; we prefer robots that seem more human by acknowledging people who walk into a room, holding eye contact for the appopriate time, and even making harmless mistakes!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/01\/magazine\/googling-yourself-takes-on-a-whole-new-meaning.html?hpw&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\">Yet another piece on Google Glass<\/a>, but it contains some interesting tidbits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting piece on the geopolitical implications of increased American energy production; worth the free registration. Great podcast discussion of one of the most fascinating women in antiquity, Queen Zenobia of Palmyra. Very good article on robots in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2013\/09\/this-week-i-learned-8-september-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}