{"id":7071,"date":"2012-05-07T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/07\/for-extra-credit-estimate-your\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:37:25","slug":"for-extra-credit-estimate-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/07\/for-extra-credit-estimate-your\/","title":{"rendered":"For Extra Credit, Estimate Your Chances of Winning: Ballparking Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, I reviewed a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/how_many_licks_or_how_to_esitm.php\">cool book about Fermi problems<\/a> by Aaron Santos, then a post-doc at Michigan. In the interim, he&#8217;s taken a faculty job at Oberlin, written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ballparking-Practical-Impractical-Sports-Questions\/dp\/0762443456\">second book on sports-related Fermi problems<\/a>, and started a <a href=\"http:\/\/diaryofnumbers.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a>, none of which I had noticed until he emailed me. Shame on me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, his new book is just out, and he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/diaryofnumbers.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/ballparking-contest.html\">running an estimation contest with a signed copy as the prize<\/a>. So, if you&#8217;re the sort of person who enjoys Fermi problems, read his post then grab a convenient envelope and start estimating on the back. You have until June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time back, I reviewed a cool book about Fermi problems by Aaron Santos, then a post-doc at Michigan. In the interim, he&#8217;s taken a faculty job at Oberlin, written a second book on sports-related Fermi problems, and started a blog, none of which I had noticed until he emailed me. Shame on me. Anyway,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/05\/07\/for-extra-credit-estimate-your\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Extra Credit, Estimate Your Chances of Winning: Ballparking Giveaway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,51,37,11,52,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-science_books","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}