{"id":399,"date":"2014-12-22T23:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2014-12-22T23:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:12:32","slug":"jeneral-finds-week-2014-12-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Jeneral finds of the week: 2014-12-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2014-12-21. (I realize I&#8217;m a day late&#8230;life happens)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This past Thursday saw the conclusion of<a title=\"Serial\u2014Seriously addicting\" href=\"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/2014\/12\/serial-seriously-addicting\/\"> season 1 of Serial podcast, which I loved<\/a>. Of course, there are\u00a0the inevitable parodies made since then, but this one by SNL is really hilarious, and holiday seasonal to boot!\u00a0[su_youtube url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l9XpS6mIZfI&#8221; width=&#8221;480&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243;]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/312537\/the-secret-to-the-uber-economy-is-wealth-inequality\/\">This article has an interesting view about how the success of sharing Uber economy<\/a>\u00a0is predicated by the growing and continued income inequality. It describes some of the reasons\u00a0I feel uncomfortable with the concept.<\/li>\n<li>When I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/a-whisper-then-tingles-then-87-million-youtube-views-meet-the-star-of-asmr\/2014\/12\/12\/0c85d54a-7b33-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html\">article\u00a0headline\u00a0from the Washington Post<\/a> about these YouTube videos created by this woman of sounds to purposefully induce a physical reaction\u00a0called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), I was skeptical to say the least.\u00a0<em>\u201cIt\u2019s like showers of sparkles,\u201d says Maria, speaking as herself. \u201cIt\u2019s like warm sand being poured all over you, trickling over your head and down into your shoulders. It\u2019s like goosebumps on your brain.\u201d<\/em> Then I watched one&#8230;and I seriously got the tingles in the back of my head! I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t be so surprised, it was similar to the wonderful tingle-y feeling I get from having my hair brushed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RVpfHgC3ye0&amp;list=TL_nQoo1Gs1LQ\">This one is\u00a0her\u00a0most-viewed video<\/a>, do you get the same tingles?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~Jen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jeneral finds of the week: 2014-12-14\" href=\"http:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/2014\/12\/jeneral-finds-week-2014-12-14\/\">&lt;&#8211;Previous week&#8217;s finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good\/interesting\/provoking finds\u00a0I\u2019ve stumbled across this week: 2014-12-21. (I realize I&#8217;m a day late&#8230;life happens) This past Thursday saw the conclusion of season 1 of Serial podcast, which I loved. Of course, there are\u00a0the inevitable parodies made since then, but this one by SNL is really hilarious, and holiday seasonal to boot!\u00a0[su_youtube url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l9XpS6mIZfI&#8221; width=&#8221;480&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243;] This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeneral finds of the week: 2014-12-21<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[96,119,170],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jeneral-findings","tag-culture","tag-economics","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/clothespins-e1474432379380.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeneralmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}