{"id":11872,"date":"2012-06-14T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11872"},"modified":"2012-06-14T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T08:00:29","slug":"a-moment-of-science-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11872","title":{"rendered":"A Moment of Science, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2012\/06\/bad_astronomy_blogger_on_science_education_and_why_he_became_an_astronomer_.html\">A Moment of Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember watching a TV special (probably National geographic) on Louis Leakey&#8217;s expeditions to Olduvai Gorge and the discovery of fossils of early humans.  If biology didn&#8217;t require dissecting frogs, I might have gone in that direction.  As it turns out, dissecting circuits and vacuum systems are more my thing. But that&#8217;s one instance I remember science grabbing me and pulling me in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>The moment of science that hooked me into physics has to be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/877\">constructing a version of the monkey-and-hunter experiment in my neighbor&#8217;s basement<\/a>. (The target drops as soon as you fire the gun, so where do you aim?).  I thought that was so cool.  That was when I knew I was going to study physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Moment of Science I remember watching a TV special (probably National geographic) on Louis Leakey&#8217;s expeditions to Olduvai Gorge and the discovery of fossils of early humans. If biology didn&#8217;t require dissecting frogs, I might have gone in that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}