{"id":6132,"date":"2012-04-06T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T08:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/06\/links-for-2012-04-06\/"},"modified":"2012-04-06T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T08:34:44","slug":"links-for-2012-04-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/06\/links-for-2012-04-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-04-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/textsfromhillaryclinton.tumblr.com\/post\/20528018113'>Texts from Hillary<\/a>\n<p>&#8220;So then I sent her a text saying I think I left my favorite sunglasses in the desk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11410'>Swans on Tea \u00c2\u00bb Do You Have My Back?<\/a>\n<p>So this whole &#8220;get back to doing science&#8221; kind of hits me where I live. I&#8217;ve seen budgetary fallout from recent events, and I know I&#8217;m not alone in that regard. But I also know that a tweet is not a substitute for actual action or activism. I&#8217;m a scientist. So I want to know: Do you have my back? Are you going to fund me? That is, do you recognize the value of research so that you won&#8217;t complain that some fraction of a penny from your tax dollar goes to funding science? And that scientists &#8212; not politicians, nor religious leaders, nor fat, lying and\/or bald pundits, nor even the general public &#8212; decide what constitutes good science? You won&#8217;t sulk if the results aren&#8217;t what you or your ideology want them to be? You won&#8217;t pout when the bulk of basic research doesn&#8217;t pan out, because investigating the unknown means you &#8212; by definition &#8212; don&#8217;t know what you will find?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/8plus1science.org\/'>8plus1science.org<\/a>\n<p>Science is often taught as a disjointed set of facts in traditional disciplines such as chemistry, biology, and physics without clear connections being made between the subjects. Today&#8217;s frontiers in science are often at the disciplinary edges. Aided by the explosion in technology and scientific discoveries, new fields are arising that were hardly imagined a generation ago like synthetic biology, digital organisms, and genomics. What we need is a radical overhaul of how science is taught- one that moves away from memorization of scientific facts to helping students develop a deeper understanding of science through questioning their observations, making connections, and seeing the relationship between natural phenomena.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texts from Hillary &#8220;So then I sent her a text saying I think I left my favorite sunglasses in the desk.&#8221; Swans on Tea \u00c2\u00bb Do You Have My Back? So this whole &#8220;get back to doing science&#8221; kind of hits me where I live. I&#8217;ve seen budgetary fallout from recent events, and I know&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/06\/links-for-2012-04-06\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-04-06<\/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-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","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=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}