{"id":2577,"date":"2008-05-07T13:37:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/07\/pimp-me-old-papers\/"},"modified":"2008-05-07T13:37:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T13:37:56","slug":"pimp-me-old-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/07\/pimp-me-old-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimp Me Old Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

As seen in a recent links dump, gg at Skulls in the Stars posted a fun challenge for science bloggers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My “challenge”, for those sciencebloggers who choose to accept it, is this: read and research an old, classic scientific paper and write a blog post about it. I recommend choosing something pre- World War II, as that was the era of hand-crafted, “in your basement”-style science. There’s a lot to learn not only about the ingenuity of researchers in an era when materials were not readily available, but also about the problems and concerns of scientists of that era, often things we take for granted now!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This does sound like a neat idea, as the level of ingenuity required to carry out some of the classic experiments of physics is really impressive. I’ve been toying with taking up the challeneg, but there’s one question remaining, which I’ll throw open to the audience:<\/p>\n

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What pre-WWII paper should I read for the Skulls in the Stars challenge?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My inclination would be to go with the Michelson-Morley experiment, conveniently available through the AIP’s collection of classic papers by American physicists<\/a>, as it was voted the greatest experiment ever<\/a> a couple of years ago. I’m open to other suggestions, though, provided that they’re in English and available online somewhere (anything in the Physical Review is fine, for example).<\/p>\n

So, if you have a suggestion, leave it in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As seen in a recent links dump, gg at Skulls in the Stars posted a fun challenge for science bloggers: My “challenge”, for those sciencebloggers who choose to accept it, is this: read and research an old, classic scientific paper and write a blog post about it. I recommend choosing something pre- World War II,… Continue reading Pimp Me Old Papers<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","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=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}