{"id":3767,"date":"2009-06-16T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/16\/academic-novels-and-a-comment\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T09:54:39","slug":"academic-novels-and-a-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/16\/academic-novels-and-a-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Novels and a Comment Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female Science Professor is <a href=\"http:\/\/science-professor.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/summer-reading.html\">revisiting<\/a> an <a href=\"http:\/\/science-professor.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/academics-r-us.html\">old topic<\/a>, namely, the academic novel:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was thinking about the general topic of academic novels because I was looking for some books to read and was looking through the lists in the links above. And then I wondered: Why do I want to read an academic novel during the summer? Why do I want to read an academic novel at all? What is it that I like about (some of) them?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems like a good opportunity to both have a discussion and do some science. There are three steps to the experiment:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Leave a comment here saying what your favorite academic novel is.<\/li>\n<li>Go over to FSP and leave a comment saying why you like or dislike academic novels.<\/li>\n<li>Based on the data from the first two steps, decide which comment system is more annoying: Blogger&#8217;s login\/captcha\/multi-click thing, or ScienceBlogs&#8217; apparent timeout thing. I&#8217;ll put up another post later to determine the results.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(Please be aware that, despite the timeout message, comments submitted to this blog almost always go through the first time. Do not re-post the comment without first hitting &#8220;Refresh&#8221; to see whether it&#8217;s shown up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Science Professor is revisiting an old topic, namely, the academic novel: I was thinking about the general topic of academic novels because I was looking for some books to read and was looking through the lists in the links above. And then I wondered: Why do I want to read an academic novel during&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/16\/academic-novels-and-a-comment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic Novels and a Comment Experiment<\/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":[8,5,18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogs","category-books","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}