{"id":4627,"date":"2010-01-25T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2010-01-25T03:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:00:58","slug":"the-outfielder-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4627","title":{"rendered":"The Outfielder Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And by that I don&#8217;t mean Manny Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/01\/100121154919.htm\">How Does an Outfielder Know Where to Run for a Fly Ball?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To test three theories that might explain an outfielder&#8217;s ability to catch a fly ball, researcher Philip Fink, PhD, from Massey University in New Zealand and Patrick Foo, PhD, from the University of North Carolina at Ashville programmed Brown University&#8217;s virtual reality lab, the VENLab, to produce realistic balls and simulate catches. The team then lobbed virtual fly balls to a dozen experienced ball players.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And by that I don&#8217;t mean Manny Ramirez. How Does an Outfielder Know Where to Run for a Fly Ball? To test three theories that might explain an outfielder&#8217;s ability to catch a fly ball, researcher Philip Fink, PhD, from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4627\">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":[39,52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-sports","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","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=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}