{"id":6780,"date":"2011-05-05T08:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2011-05-05T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:46:18","slug":"cant-really-blame-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/cant-really-blame-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Really Blame Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very excited to learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2011\/02\/25\/tedxcaltech-talks\/\">my talk from TEDxCaltech<\/a> is featured on the TED home page today.  They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sean_carroll_distant_time_and_the_hint_of_a_multiverse.html\">their own comment thread<\/a>, and in a couple of weeks we&#8217;ll have a live call-in &#8220;conversation with the speaker&#8221; deal.  If the Twitters are to be believed, these TED talks are pretty darn popular.<\/p>\n<p>The talk is a punchy, 15-minute version of my usual cosmology-and-the-arrow-of-time schtick.  Glad to see the arrow of time get some more publicity; sophisticated <em>Cosmic Variance<\/em> readers know all about it, but not everyone is so lucky.  When Brian Cox did an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00zdhtg\">Wonders of the Universe<\/a> that discussed the arrow of time, the comments were all &#8220;Wow, what an amazing concept, never heard of that!&#8221;  Obviously reading the wrong blogs.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t help but notice something about the presentation on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED home page<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2011\/05\/ted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6781\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each talk is advertised by an image from the video; in most cases it&#8217;s a picture of the speaker actually giving the talk.  But for mine, they (wisely) went with the <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/hubble_discoveries\/hubble_deep_field\/\">Hubble Deep Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson: you can&#8217;t compete with the universe!  It&#8217;s bigger, smarter, and prettier, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very excited to learn that my talk from TEDxCaltech is featured on the TED home page today. They have their own comment thread, and in a couple of weeks we&#8217;ll have a live call-in &#8220;conversation with the speaker&#8221; deal. If the Twitters are to be believed, these TED talks are pretty darn popular. The talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","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=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}