{"id":10914,"date":"2012-12-31T08:17:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2012-12-31T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:17:58","slug":"talking-nerdy-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/talking-nerdy-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Nerdy About Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cara Santa Maria, science correspondent for the Huffington Post, does a series of videos there called Talk Nerdy To Me. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/24\/universe-computer-simulation_n_2339109.html\">Martin Savage<\/a> on physics and the simulation argument, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/17\/superstring-theory_n_2296195.html\">Mark Jackson<\/a> on cosmology and string theory, Mark&#8217;s PhD advisor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/25\/multiverse-brian-greene_n_2003554.html\">Brian Greene<\/a> on the multiverse, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/18\/alan-turing-lgbt-history-month_n_1955516.html\">a collection of interviews<\/a> about Alan Turing.<\/p>\n<p>The latest one features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/31\/what-is-time-sean-carroll_n_2339539.html\">me talking about the arrow of time<\/a>. Likely nothing you haven&#8217;t heard before, but it&#8217;s only five minutes! Could be a useful explainer for your friends who don&#8217;t understand why you keep mumbling about entropy under your breath. (People do that, right?)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/Lq15zFWV-GQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara Santa Maria, science correspondent for the Huffington Post, does a series of videos there called Talk Nerdy To Me. See Martin Savage on physics and the simulation argument, Mark Jackson on cosmology and string theory, Mark&#8217;s PhD advisor Brian Greene on the multiverse, or a collection of interviews about Alan Turing. The latest one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10917,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions\/10917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}