{"id":9771,"date":"2011-09-13T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2011-09-13T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T08:00:44","slug":"because-graham-is-on-holiday-and-chun-yao-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9771","title":{"rendered":"Because Graham is on Holiday and Chun Yao&#039;s Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3wHKBavY_h8?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3wHKBavY_h8?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that this is satire and thus includes some level of  exaggeration, it does do a rather nice job of highlighting some of the frustration of science outreach.  Not everything can be condensed down into an information mcnugget or two, and there are subjects where you really need a decent background in physics to understand what&#8217;s going on, even at a superficial level.  That frustration comes to a head when you meet someone who thinks that advanced science should be understandable to them even without any background schooling, and those same folks seem to be the ones who hold you at fault when they don&#8217;t understand.  (They also seem to conclude that it&#8217;s wrong if it doesn&#8217;t make sense to them, but that&#8217;s another level of frustration)<\/p>\n<p>h\/t to Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s hat <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Despite the fact that this is satire and thus includes some level of exaggeration, it does do a rather nice job of highlighting some of the frustration of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9771\">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":[22,39,44,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-physics","category-satire","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771","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=9771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}