{"id":4012,"date":"2009-08-24T09:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/24\/you-say-you-want-a-revolution\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T09:56:12","slug":"you-say-you-want-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/24\/you-say-you-want-a-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"You Say You Want a Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m suffering through a wretched cold at the moment, which will limit my blogging activity. If you&#8217;re looking for something to do, though, you might want to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/revminds\/\">Revolutionary Minds<\/a> blog set up by the Corporate Masters. This is basically a short-form online version of a feature from <cite>Seed<\/cite>, in which they ask smart people to discuss Big Questions&#8211; a more limited version of those Edge questions that John Brockman does every year.<\/p>\n<p>The current question is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The boundaries of science are continually expanding as scientists become increasingly integral to finding solutions for larger social issues, such as poverty, conflict, financial crises, etc. On what specific issue\/problem do you feel we need to bring the scientific lens to bear?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The answers range from <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/revminds\/2009\/08\/margaret_turnbull_on_localizin.php\">localizing energy production<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/revminds\/2009\/08\/edward_einhorn_on_funding_for.php\">improving funding for the arts<\/a> (it&#8217;s not quite as much a non sequitur as you might think).<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s something to check out while my pseudoephedrine and I have a groggy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m suffering through a wretched cold at the moment, which will limit my blogging activity. If you&#8217;re looking for something to do, though, you might want to check out the Revolutionary Minds blog set up by the Corporate Masters. This is basically a short-form online version of a feature from Seed, in which they ask&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/08\/24\/you-say-you-want-a-revolution\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Say You Want a Revolution?<\/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":[5,11,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-science","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}