{"id":12548,"date":"2012-10-06T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12548"},"modified":"2012-10-06T03:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T08:00:34","slug":"12548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12548","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galileospendulum.org\/2012\/10\/04\/1001-mind-blowing-facts-about-yo-momma\/\">1,001 Mind-Blowing Facts About Yo Momma<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Style aside, there\u2019s another reason I\u2019m not a big fan of omnibus fact lists: that\u2019s not a very scientific way to organize knowledge. Facts are some of the <em>least<\/em> useful things in science, so just dumping a list of them on readers will not generally result in much gain in understanding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with Matthew.  I think most science facts should more accurately be termed science trivia.  And there are a lot of science literacy quizzes which only test trivia.  (Though there are some which do reward literacy if you haven&#8217;t memorized the answer but can still figure it out.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,001 Mind-Blowing Facts About Yo Momma Style aside, there\u2019s another reason I\u2019m not a big fan of omnibus fact lists: that\u2019s not a very scientific way to organize knowledge. Facts are some of the least useful things in science, so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12548\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548","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=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}