{"id":93,"date":"2005-04-28T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/why-not-the-feynman-lectures\/"},"modified":"2005-04-28T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T22:07:00","slug":"why-not-the-feynman-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/28\/why-not-the-feynman-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not the Feynman lectures?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcdfa.org\/?q=frist2\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/wittenbullhorn.jpg\" \/><\/a>  Okay, this is truly funny.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/blog\/archives\/000188.html\">Not Even Wrong<\/a>, Princeton professors stage &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mcdfa.org\/?q=frist2\">filibuster<\/a>&#8221; against the anti-filibuster machinations of alumus Bill Frist.  Two of the filibusterers are physicists Chiara Nappi and Ed Witten, the latter of whom regaled the crowd by reading selections from Griffith&#8217;s <i>Introduction to Elementary Particles<\/i>.  Couldn&#8217;t he have just given an introductory lecture on twistors and string theory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this is truly funny. From Not Even Wrong, Princeton professors stage &#8220;filibuster&#8221; against the anti-filibuster machinations of alumus Bill Frist. Two of the filibusterers are physicists Chiara Nappi and Ed Witten, the latter of whom regaled the crowd by reading selections from Griffith&#8217;s Introduction to Elementary Particles. Couldn&#8217;t he have just given an introductory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","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\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}