{"id":7955,"date":"2011-02-17T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2011-02-17T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:00:16","slug":"im-in-it-for-the-groupies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7955","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m in it for the Groupies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagef30.com\/2011\/02\/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-science-should.html\">Neil deGrasse Tyson on the &#8220;science should be used to improve life&#8221; argument<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of writing this I have watched only the second half, which is linked in the link, to see the part about how the desire to improve life isn&#8217;t what drives basic science, it&#8217;s a byproduct.  Scientists generally aren&#8217;t looking that far ahead, even if they could.  You&#8217;re driven by curiosity which is aimed at the problem in front of you.  Others can (and do) take discoveries and apply them.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the &#8220;utility belt of understanding&#8221; metaphor, and since it&#8217;s Neil deGrasse Tyson, there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff (except for the part where he&#8217;s confusing Millikan with Michelson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil deGrasse Tyson on the &#8220;science should be used to improve life&#8221; argument As of writing this I have watched only the second half, which is linked in the link, to see the part about how the desire to improve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7955\">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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955","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=7955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}