{"id":386,"date":"2008-06-03T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/386"},"modified":"2008-06-03T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:54:19","slug":"maybe-theyll-ask-for-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/386","title":{"rendered":"Maybe They'll Ask for Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Greene Op-Ed in the NY Times, on science and science education. Put a Little Science in Your Life<\/a><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing. The reason science really matters runs deeper still. Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that\u2019s precise, predictive and reliable \u2014 a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. To be able to think through and grasp explanations \u2014 for everything from why the sky is blue to how life formed on earth \u2014 not because they are declared dogma but rather because they reveal patterns confirmed by experiment and observation, is one of the most precious of human experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Greene Op-Ed in the NY Times, on science and science education. Put a Little Science in Your Life But here\u2019s the thing. The reason science really matters runs deeper still. Science is a way of life. Science is a … Continue reading →<\/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-386","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\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}