{"id":2479,"date":"2008-04-08T09:49:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/08\/political-indoctrination-by-fa\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:49:40","slug":"political-indoctrination-by-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/08\/political-indoctrination-by-fa\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Indoctrination by Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ad-lib from yesterday’s lecture about interactions between electric fields and neutral matter, paraphrased:<\/p>\n

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So, we can divide macroscopic objects into two categories, based on what happens when you bring large numbers of atoms together. In materials that are insulators, the electrons aren’t free to move. The atoms hold onto their electrons very tightly. They’re kind of like Republicans.<\/p>\n

In materials that are conductors, on the other hand, the electrons are free to move. The atoms share their electrons freely through the whole material. They’re basically Communists.<\/p>\n

Semiconductors are like Democrats, but that’s beyond the scope of this class.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An ad-lib from yesterday’s lecture about interactions between electric fields and neutral matter, paraphrased: So, we can divide macroscopic objects into two categories, based on what happens when you bring large numbers of atoms together. In materials that are insulators, the electrons aren’t free to move. The atoms hold onto their electrons very tightly. They’re… Continue reading Political Indoctrination by Faculty<\/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":[8,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}