{"id":678,"date":"2008-08-20T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T20:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=678"},"modified":"2008-08-20T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T20:24:34","slug":"teleport-shmeleport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/678","title":{"rendered":"Teleport, Shmeleport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s xkcd is about <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/465\/\">quantum teleportation<\/a>, but the problem isn&#8217;t that journalists write the &#8220;same disappointed story&#8221; whenever quantum teleportation is being reported.  It&#8217;s that they still report that teleportation is somehow connected to moving matter around, whether they&#8217;ve been waved off about it or not; the latter would be because they didn&#8217;t vet their story.  They are almost Pavlovian (does that name ring a bell?) in their need to include the reference to Star Trek.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s only a small deduction in judging the overall message, though.  (Especially the title tag, where Randall zings the sensationalization of story titles)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s xkcd is about quantum teleportation, but the problem isn&#8217;t that journalists write the &#8220;same disappointed story&#8221; whenever quantum teleportation is being reported. It&#8217;s that they still report that teleportation is somehow connected to moving matter around, whether they&#8217;ve been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/678\">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":[11,22,24,39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon","category-humor","category-journalism","category-physics","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}