{"id":10987,"date":"2013-02-06T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10987"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:34:15","slug":"virtually-speaking-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/virtually-speaking-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtually Speaking Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a couple of hours (6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern) I&#8217;ll be joining <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/02\/06\/16873050-how-to-check-the-x-files-of-physics?lite\">Alan Boyle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/profmattstrassler.com\/\">Matt Strassler<\/a> for a chat in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/virtually-speaking-science\">Virtually Speaking Science<\/a>. You can listen along on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/virtually-speaking-science\/2013\/02\/07\/sean-carroll-matt-strassler-alan-boyle\">BlogTalkRadio<\/a>, or the more adventurous among you can join us in <a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Exploratorium\/147\/52\/25\">Second Life<\/a>. After consulting the Twittersphere (and our own inner dialogues), we&#8217;ve settled on the topic &#8220;Curious things that may or may not be true.&#8221; Should be fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/341150_10150340110403715_665228063_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/341150_10150340110403715_665228063_o.jpg\" alt=\"341150_10150340110403715_665228063_o\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/341150_10150340110403715_665228063_o.jpg 600w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/341150_10150340110403715_665228063_o-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferouellette-writes.com\/\">Jennifer<\/a> and I would look like if First Life were more like Second. For one thing, apparently we&#8217;d be like nine feet tall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a couple of hours (6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern) I&#8217;ll be joining Alan Boyle and Matt Strassler for a chat in Virtually Speaking Science. You can listen along on BlogTalkRadio, or the more adventurous among you can join us in Second Life. After consulting the Twittersphere (and our own inner dialogues), we&#8217;ve settled on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987","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=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10992,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}