{"id":626,"date":"2006-09-22T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T11:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/22\/metacontest-the-trouble-with-p\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T11:03:33","slug":"metacontest-the-trouble-with-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/22\/metacontest-the-trouble-with-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-Contest: The Trouble With Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through some quirk of the publishing industry, I find myself with two free copies of Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics<\/cite>, one from my Corporate Masters at Seed, and the other direct from the publisher. This seems a little excessive, even for a confirmed bibliophile like myself. (I know, I know, this is a problem a lot of people would be happy to have…)<\/p>\n

The obvious thing to do is to give it away as the prize for some sort of bloggy contest, but I don’t have any ideas for a good contest (I’m generally terrible at this sort of thing). So here’s a meta-contest: A free copy of Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics<\/cite> to the person who comes up with the best idea for an appropriate contest to give away a copy of Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

Entries should be posted in comments, and should be funnier than “Invent a consistent theory of quantum gravity,” which I already thought of. The contest winner will be announced on Monday, at which time the winner will need to give me a snail-mail address to send the book to. <\/p>\n

(Alternatively, you could get a copy of The Revenge of Gaia<\/cite> by James Lovelock, which I also got for free, as a bonus book stuck in with The Republican War on Science<\/cite>, but am unlikely to read, as I have so many other books, and classes to teach, and research to do, and…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through some quirk of the publishing industry, I find myself with two free copies of Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics, one from my Corporate Masters at Seed, and the other direct from the publisher. This seems a little excessive, even for a confirmed bibliophile like myself. (I know, I know, this is a problem… Continue reading Meta-Contest: The Trouble With Physics<\/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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}