{"id":2959,"date":"2008-09-21T17:18:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T17:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/21\/cocktail-party-variance\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T17:18:04","slug":"cocktail-party-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/21\/cocktail-party-variance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail Party Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the LHC starting up last week, this week&#8217;s Saturday science video on bloggingheads.tv had a physics theme, with <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/\">Sean<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistedphysics.typepad.com\/\">Jennifer<\/a> getting together to <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/diavlogs\/14518\">chat about physics, calculus, and poker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good stuff, and I was surprised to hear my own name appear in the middle of it. Unfortunately, the idea Jennifer cites me for&#8211; the concept of &#8220;lies-to-children&#8221; isn&#8217;t original to me. I got it from Terry Pratchett (or possibly Ian Stewart or Jack Cohen&#8211; I think it&#8217;s in <cite>The Science of Discworld<\/cite>).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the really important question here is how does one get on the list of people asked to do these? &#8216;Cause I think it would be fun to give it a try. I do all right <a href=\"http:\/\/pirsa.org\/08090026\/\">on video<\/a>, too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the LHC starting up last week, this week&#8217;s Saturday science video on bloggingheads.tv had a physics theme, with Sean and Jennifer getting together to chat about physics, calculus, and poker. It&#8217;s good stuff, and I was surprised to hear my own name appear in the middle of it. Unfortunately, the idea Jennifer cites me&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/21\/cocktail-party-variance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cocktail Party Variance<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","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=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}