{"id":4651,"date":"2010-04-30T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/30\/dorky-poll-light-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:16:54","slug":"dorky-poll-light-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/30\/dorky-poll-light-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Light Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Williamstown this afternoon, to talk about research and also<a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\">How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/a>. If you need blog-based entertainment, though, here are some shiny new radio buttons for you to click:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3132315.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/3132315\/\">You&#8217;re a beam of light: quick, what&#8217;s your polarization?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online survey<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t offer a personality analysis based on these results, but after enough people vote, we will be able to determine the angle between this blog&#8217;s readers and the horizontal. So that&#8217;s something. Of course, it would require several more polls for full quantum state tomography&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re new here, or ok with old radio buttons for your bloggy amusement, go <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/reminder_vote_for_the_most_ama.php\">vote in the Laser Smackdown<\/a> poll.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off to Williamstown this afternoon, to talk about research and alsoHow to Teach Physics to Your Dog. If you need blog-based entertainment, though, here are some shiny new radio buttons for you to click: You&#8217;re a beam of light: quick, what&#8217;s your polarization?online survey I won&#8217;t offer a personality analysis based on these results,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/30\/dorky-poll-light-entertainment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorky Poll: Light Entertainment<\/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":[238,7,137,23,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-optics","category-physics","category-polls","category-quantum_optics","category-science","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","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=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}