{"id":8527,"date":"2013-09-10T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:24:18","slug":"how-to-think-like-a-scientist-in-an-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/09\/10\/how-to-think-like-a-scientist-in-an-elevator\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Think Like a Scientist in an Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months back, TED <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/07\/01\/want-to-speak-at-ted2014-apply-to-speak-at-tednyc-this-fall\/\">put out a call for auditions<\/a> for a chance to speak at one of their events. They asked for a one-minute video, and I said &#8220;What the hell, I can do that. I need an &#8216;elevator pitch&#8217; version of the book-in-progress anyway.&#8221; This is the result:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vnGAkor1rQc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;ve got a couple of minutes to spare (one minute for the video, plus the better part of a minute for miscellaneous buffering\/ network nonsense), check it out. That&#8217;s as compact a statement of the core argument as I have.<\/p>\n<p>And it was apparently pretty good, because now I get to put together a six-minute version to do for the TED folks in early October&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months back, TED put out a call for auditions for a chance to speak at one of their events. They asked for a one-minute video, and I said &#8220;What the hell, I can do that. I need an &#8216;elevator pitch&#8217; version of the book-in-progress anyway.&#8221; This is the result: So, if you&#8217;ve&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/09\/10\/how-to-think-like-a-scientist-in-an-elevator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Think Like a Scientist in an Elevator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,2,7,37,11,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-personal","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","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=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}