{"id":13425,"date":"2013-03-30T08:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2013-03-30T08:05:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T13:05:55","slug":"youd-better-put-some-clothes-on-that-naked-singularity-buster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13425","title":{"rendered":"You&#039;d Better Put Some Clothes on That Naked Singularity, Buster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, an Idaho biology teacher was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/03\/27\/idaho-teacher-investigated-for-saying-vagina-during-biology-lesson\/\">recently under scrutiny<\/a> for the unforgivable act of saying the word &#8220;vagina&#8221; in a class on human reproduction. (To add insult to idiocy, or idiocy to insult, the superintendent says \u201cIt is highly unlikely it would end with his dismissal. Maybe a letter of reprimand from the school board.\u201d WTF?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Frank Noschese has a physics-related commentary, in the form of a letter about part of the physics curriculum: <a href=\"http:\/\/fnoschese.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/29\/dear-parents\/\">Dear Parents<\/a>. It&#8217;s not often I file things under both physics and satire. The section on &#8220;Giggle-inducing Scientific Terminology&#8221; is absolute gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, an Idaho biology teacher was recently under scrutiny for the unforgivable act of saying the word &#8220;vagina&#8221; in a class on human reproduction. (To add insult to idiocy, or idiocy to insult, the superintendent says &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13425\">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":[39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425","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=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}