{"id":338,"date":"2006-06-21T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T09:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/21\/physicists-are-cheap\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T09:57:56","slug":"physicists-are-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/21\/physicists-are-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Are Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the inevitable conclusion to be drawn by anyone looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/leadershipboard.php?category=MAT\">DonorsChoose Leaderboard<\/a> at the moment. So far, we&#8217;ve had ten donations to my challenge, raising a total of $395 for deserving school teachers and students, which is good, and I thank those who have contributed.<\/p>\n<p>But, man, we&#8217;re getting our clocks cleaned in both absolute and per-capita terms. I mean, it&#8217;s one thing for PZ Myers and his billions of tentacled minions to be beating us in absolute dollars, but even in average-donation terms, we&#8217;re getting housed. Math nerds have ponied up an average of $110\/donation, the squid freaks are next with $98\/donation, and even philosophers of science are more generous than physicists, averaging $59.50 to our $39.50.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, people, cough up some cash! Surely somebody has some spare funds sitting in a research grant that needs to be spent out before the end of the fiscal year?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/challenge.php?id=146\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the inevitable conclusion to be drawn by anyone looking at the DonorsChoose Leaderboard at the moment. So far, we&#8217;ve had ten donations to my challenge, raising a total of $395 for deserving school teachers and students, which is good, and I thank those who have contributed. But, man, we&#8217;re getting our clocks cleaned in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/21\/physicists-are-cheap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physicists Are Cheap<\/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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}