{"id":1921,"date":"2007-11-02T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T09:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/02\/dorky-poll-physics-scavenger-h\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T09:13:12","slug":"dorky-poll-physics-scavenger-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/02\/dorky-poll-physics-scavenger-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Physics Scavenger Hunt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same basic spirit as the previous post, but with a physical science slant:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>What items should be on the list for a scavenger hunt through an academic physics department?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea here is to keep a big group of grad students occupied and entertained for an afternoon by having them find items characteristic of academic physics research, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One working piece of apparatus powered by vacuum tubes<\/li>\n<li>One obviously broken piece of apparatus being kept &#8220;for spare parts&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>One obviously broken piece of apparatus being kept for no apparent reason<\/li>\n<li>One piece of computer software that&#8217;s at least two versions out of date because nobody wants to deal with upgrading it<\/li>\n<li>One piece of computer hardware that&#8217;s at least two versions out of date because it works, and nobody wants to deal with replacing it<\/li>\n<li>One faculty member sleeping through a seminar talk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else needs to be on the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same basic spirit as the previous post, but with a physical science slant: What items should be on the list for a scavenger hunt through an academic physics department? The idea here is to keep a big group of grad students occupied and entertained for an afternoon by having them find items characteristic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/02\/dorky-poll-physics-scavenger-h\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorky Poll: Physics Scavenger Hunt!<\/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":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","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=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}