{"id":1224,"date":"2004-05-14T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/the-joy-of-trying-to-explain-string-theory-to-5th-graders\/"},"modified":"2004-05-14T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T14:56:00","slug":"the-joy-of-trying-to-explain-string-theory-to-5th-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/the-joy-of-trying-to-explain-string-theory-to-5th-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy of trying to explain string theory to 5th graders :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=2026&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/latimests\/20040513\/ts_latimes\/densematterindeed<\/p>\n<p>Fav quotes from the article:<\/p>\n<p><i>Not only is it hard to stay current, but the leaps in technology can be scary, said Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences. &#8220;We have to help the public deal with these things,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Otherwise you have people living in fear of their hair dryer, of their cellphone causing cancer, of drinking their tap water.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>[&#8230;] more than 80% of U.S. adults still are not knowledgeable enough to digest a science story in a major newspaper[&#8230;]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=2026&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/latimests\/20040513\/ts_latimes\/densematterindeed Fav quotes from the article: Not only is it hard to stay current, but the leaps in technology can be scary, said Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences. &#8220;We have to help the public deal with these things,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Otherwise you have people living in fear of their hair dryer,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/the-joy-of-trying-to-explain-string-theory-to-5th-graders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The joy of trying to explain string theory to 5th graders :)&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-jK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}