{"id":612,"date":"2008-07-29T15:18:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=612"},"modified":"2008-07-29T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T20:18:44","slug":"more-intellectualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/612","title":{"rendered":"More Intellectualism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some good followup to the whole why-are-math-and-science-such-small-portions-on-the-plate-of-intellectualism and all of the tangents (too math-y?  juxtaposed topics, perhaps?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2008\/07\/fear_and_loathing_in_the_acade.php\">Fear and loathing in the academy <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2008\/07\/assorted_hypotheses_on_the_sci.php\">Assorted hypotheses on the science-humanities divide<\/a> at Adventures in Ethics and Science.  A lot to chew on (or gum, if you are so inclined)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best reason to learn something is that <strong>learning it is a fun thing to do with your brain<\/strong>. Learning math and science can make your brain just as happy as learning humanities and arts, so who wouldn&#8217;t want to be an intellectual omnivore?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good followup to the whole why-are-math-and-science-such-small-portions-on-the-plate-of-intellectualism and all of the tangents (too math-y? juxtaposed topics, perhaps?) Fear and loathing in the academy and Assorted hypotheses on the science-humanities divide at Adventures in Ethics and Science. A lot to chew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/612\">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":[15,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-general","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}