Two links to things promoting science on the web:<\/p>\n
1) What’s the Greatest Innovation?<\/a> Spiked online asked a bunch of famous people to describe the greatest innovation in their field, and compiled the responses. As with most of these things, there’s some interesting stuff in the responses, and a lot of predictable answers of the form “The greatest innovation is the one that led to my personal research.”<\/p>\n 2) String Theory in Two Minutes or Less<\/a>. Some time back, Discover<\/cite> ran a contest for videos describing string theory in two minutes or less, and they’ve put the top entries up on the web for a vote.<\/p>\n There’s a video in there titled “String Ducky,” which, sadly, fails to use the “Put Down the Duckie”<\/a> song (“You’ve got to put down the duckie, if you want to compactify Calabi-Yau manifolds in eleven dimensions…” With cameos by Ed Witten, Harry Belafonte, and Lindsey Lohan…) Have I mentioned that I’m thoroughly earwormed with that goddamn song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two links to things promoting science on the web: 1) What’s the Greatest Innovation? Spiked online asked a bunch of famous people to describe the greatest innovation in their field, and compiled the responses. As with most of these things, there’s some interesting stuff in the responses, and a lot of predictable answers of the… Continue reading Science Promotions on the Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}