{"id":1237,"date":"2009-01-18T06:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2009-01-18T06:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T11:28:27","slug":"gathering-data-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1237","title":{"rendered":"Gathering Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZapperZ asks about a possible &#8220;marker&#8221; for becoming a scientist in <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/astronomer-looks-back-at-telltale.html\">Astronomer Looks Back at Telltale Childhood<\/a>, namely, jumping out a window with an umbrella to see if one can fly, after having watched <em>Mary Poppins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OK, now that&#8217;s freaking scary because *I* too did almost the same thing AFTER I watched Mary Poppins (hum&#8230; does this mean that Mary Poppins is a good indicator of future scientists?)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t try this \u2014 not even tempted.  I&#8217;m not particularly fond of heights.  Some few extremely low altitude stunts involved bicycles, but I never had all that much daredevil in me.  I was able to injure myself doing more mundane things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dotphys.net\/2009\/01\/learning-student-names\/\">Rhett<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/whats_in_a_name_anyway.php\">Chad<\/a> discuss strategies for learning student names.  They both admit to being terrible at learning names.  Add me to the list.  When I was in the navy I had the advantage that nametags are part of the uniform, and the students also had name signs on their desks.  (That helped a little less as my vision drifted away from being 20-20 and before I got glasses)<\/p>\n<p>Is it a prerequisite to teaching physics that you be bad at learning names?  Three data points here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZapperZ asks about a possible &#8220;marker&#8221; for becoming a scientist in Astronomer Looks Back at Telltale Childhood, namely, jumping out a window with an umbrella to see if one can fly, after having watched Mary Poppins. OK, now that&#8217;s freaking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1237\">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":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","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=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}