{"id":82,"date":"2008-03-03T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/82"},"modified":"2008-03-03T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:34:45","slug":"what-everyone-should-know-about-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/82","title":{"rendered":"What Everyone Should Know About Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic being adressed at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/what_everyone_should_know_abou.php#more\">Uncertain Principles<\/a>, based on an idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=328\">Michael Nielsen<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) Science is a Process, Not a Collection of Facts<\/p>\n<p>2) Science is an essential human activity.<\/p>\n<p>3) Anyone can do science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>infer some ellipses between those items; Chad goes into some detail about all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps what science is not is important, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;  Science doesn&#8217;t claim to have all the answers.  Good thing, too, since we&#8217;d all be doing something else with our lives if everything had been answered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;  Science isn&#8217;t about faith (of the religious variety).  Related to the above, but it&#8217;s important to know that science quantifies certainty and uncertainty.  Having some uncertainty is not the same thing as having no certainty at all.<\/p>\n<p>(what everyone should know about blogging:  When in doubt, link to someone else)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic being adressed at Uncertain Principles, based on an idea from Michael Nielsen 1) Science is a Process, Not a Collection of Facts 2) Science is an essential human activity. 3) Anyone can do science. infer some ellipses between &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/82\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}