{"id":9423,"date":"2011-08-03T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2011-08-03T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T08:00:04","slug":"thats-easy-for-you-to-say-astro-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9423","title":{"rendered":"That&#039;s Easy for You to Say, Astro Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/how_much_outreach_do_we_need_d.php\">Uncertain Principles:  How Much Outreach Do We Need? Depends on What You Mean by &#8220;We&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to argue that we have plenty of outreach going on in <em>astronomy and particle physics<\/em>, that&#8217;s fine, but to say that astronomy and physics outreach is sufficient for science as a whole (or even just physics, which I&#8217;ve heard people say) is just insulting.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomy and particle physics aren&#8217;t the whole of the physical sciences. Astronomers and particle physicists are significantly outnumbered by people doing other types of physics&#8211; condensed matter, atomic and molecular, materials science. Those topics don&#8217;t get anywhere near as much attention as things you can illustrate with a picture from the Hubble telescope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, but astronomy and particle physics touch on really big questions, that inspire people,&#8221; you say. &#8220;Oh, bite me,&#8221; I reply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(If anyone is tempted to take this to the next level, I&#8217;ll remind you that we have lasers.  Just sayin&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>If you give the narrow glimpse of physics as accelerators and telescopes, you make the same mistake as painting grad school as only a pathway to academia:  you sin by omission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertain Principles: How Much Outreach Do We Need? Depends on What You Mean by &#8220;We&#8221; If you want to argue that we have plenty of outreach going on in astronomy and particle physics, that&#8217;s fine, but to say that astronomy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9423\">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":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}