{"id":1708,"date":"2008-06-13T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/06\/13\/giggling-uncontrollably\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T21:03:16","slug":"giggling-uncontrollably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/giggling-uncontrollably\/","title":{"rendered":"Giggling Uncontrollably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/11\/psychic-kids\/\">Paul Krugman<\/a> puts into anecdote form what many of us frequently feel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, you get through grad school. You do research that gets lot of citations. You get tenure. You branch out into policy work, and into writing for a broader audience. You try to play a role in the important economic debates. And finally, you really hit the big time &mdash; you\u2019re debating the economy on Larry King, with who knows how many people watching.<\/p>\n<p>And then Larry King wraps it up: &#8220;Tomorrow, we\u2019ll talk about psychic kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was still giggling uncontrollably ten minutes after I left the studio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/catdynamics\/2008\/06\/sometimes_i_despair.php\">Dynamics of Cats<\/a>.  We also serve who link and laugh.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman puts into anecdote form what many of us frequently feel: So, you get through grad school. You do research that gets lot of citations. You get tenure. You branch out into policy work, and into writing for a broader audience. You try to play a role in the important economic debates. And finally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}