{"id":9381,"date":"2014-05-13T17:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2014-05-13T17:14:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:14:25","slug":"uncertain-dots-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/13\/uncertain-dots-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertain Dots 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, another hangout with Rhett. In which we actually fielded a couple of questions from readers on Twitter, about the reason for inertia and a kind of meta-question. More audience questions would, of course, be welcome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0Fde8z-pp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A couple of links to things that came up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mach's_principle\">Mach&#8217;s Principle<\/a>, a past attempt to explain the origin of inertia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypotheses_non_fingo\">Newton&#8217;s famous refusal to explain gravity<\/a>, &#8220;Hypotheses non fingo.&#8221; Sir Isaac was second to none in his mastery of snotty condescension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C_covjcIcZ4&#038;list=UUHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA&#038;feature=share\">Veritasium&#8217;s buoyancy quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/05\/empzeal-active-learning\/\">Aatish Bhatia&#8217;s post<\/a> about a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/05\/08\/1319030111.full.pdf+html\">meta-analysis of &#8220;active learning&#8221; studies<\/a> showing that traditional lectures are less effective than active methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week, another hangout with Rhett. In which we actually fielded a couple of questions from readers on Twitter, about the reason for inertia and a kind of meta-question. More audience questions would, of course, be welcome. A couple of links to things that came up: Mach&#8217;s Principle, a past attempt to explain the origin&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/13\/uncertain-dots-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncertain Dots 14<\/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":[5,13,7,11,679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-education","category-physics","category-science","category-uncertain-dots","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","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=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}