{"id":3816,"date":"2009-06-29T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/29\/links-for-2009-06-29\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T05:01:08","slug":"links-for-2009-06-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/29\/links-for-2009-06-29\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-06-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/06\/dialascientist.html\">Cocktail Party Physics: dial-a-scientist<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;It all started Wednesday, when I got an email from Brandon Webb, who handles PR for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UT Dallas.  He wanted to know if I could talk to a reporter who wanted to know whether a Styrofoam cup could break a windshield.  (That&#8217;s an advantage to being officially mediagenic &#8211; I don&#8217;t get contacted directly now &#8211; they go through my &#8216;people&#8217; a.k.a Brandon.)&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/cocktail-party\">cocktail-party<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mareserinitatis.livejournal.com\/656191.html\">Faraday&#8217;s Cage is where you put Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat &#8211; Cats are great subjects for bad physics jokes<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Microcat is tunneling. Macrocat cannot tunnel.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quantum\">quantum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/animals\">animals<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/28\/sports\/baseball\/28francis.html?_r=1&amp;ref=sports\">Rockies\u00e2\u0080\u0099 Francis Revels in the Physics of Pitching While Rehabbing &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;\u00e2\u0080\u009cI think pitchers know what they do more than understand what they do,\u00e2\u0080\u009d said [Colorado Rockies pitcher Jeff] Francis, who spent three years as a physics major at the University of British Columbia before signing with the Rockies in 2002. \u00e2\u0080\u009cEven though I do understand the forces and everything, there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a separation when I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m pitching. If I throw a good pitch, I know what I did to do it, but there has to be a separation between knowing what I did and knowing why what I did helped the ball do what it did, if that makes any sense at all. If I thought about it on the mound, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099d be really mechanical and trying to be too perfect instead of doing what comes naturally.\u00e2\u0080\u009d&quot;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocktail Party Physics: dial-a-scientist &quot;It all started Wednesday, when I got an email from Brandon Webb, who handles PR for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UT Dallas. He wanted to know if I could talk to a reporter who wanted to know whether a Styrofoam cup could break a windshield. (That&#8217;s an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/29\/links-for-2009-06-29\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-06-29<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","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=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}