{"id":1272,"date":"2007-06-20T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/06\/20\/thoughtful-consistent-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T19:45:22","slug":"thoughtful-consistent-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/thoughtful-consistent-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful, Consistent Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/chi-oped0620albaniajun20,0,7947319.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> website, via <a href=\"http:\/\/americansector.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/20\/headline-of-the-day\/\">The American Sector<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img class='center' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/2007\/06\/lessonsfromsex.gif' alt='lessonsfromsex.gif' \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll give them the benefit of the doubt that it is a mistake.  But I do wonder how exactly that happened.<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting on the internets:  <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/posts\/chain_1181956813.shtml\">Randy Barnett<\/a> gives you the inside scoop on being a technical consultant for, and landing a minor role in, a legitmate Hollywood movie; and <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/time_for_a_chan.html\">Ezra Klein<\/a> talks about the importance of changing areas of specialization throughout one&#8217;s career.  Both of which I note because it would be very easy to substitute &#8220;scientist&#8221; for &#8220;lawyer&#8221; and &#8220;pundit&#8221; in the respective discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this an open thread in which you are encouraged to mock my co-bloggers for being the slackers they so obviously are.  Also, if you have any groundbreaking theories about the fundamental nature of space and time and would like someone to have a look at them because reading up on the literature yourself sounds like too much of a bother and besides which great wisdom only springs forth from a position of ignorance, this is the place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s Chicago Tribune website, via The American Sector: I&#8217;ll give them the benefit of the doubt that it is a mistake. But I do wonder how exactly that happened. Also interesting on the internets: Randy Barnett gives you the inside scoop on being a technical consultant for, and landing a minor role in, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}