{"id":9474,"date":"2012-11-11T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2012-12-04T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:22:27","slug":"dara-o-briain-school-of-hard-sums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/dara-o-briain-school-of-hard-sums\/","title":{"rendered":"Dara O Briain School of Hard Sums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dara_%C3%93_Briain:_School_of_Hard_Sums\">This<\/a> is an actual TV show in the UK (based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1024699\/\">Japanese program<\/a>), broadcast on a channel called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_(TV_channel)\">Dave<\/a>. In it, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/09\/14\/if-science-knew-all-the-answers-it-would-stop\/\">Dara O Briain<\/a> and mathematician <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_du_Sautoy\">Marcus du Sautoy<\/a>, along with special comedy guests, take on math puzzles (and compete against school-aged math whizzes in the process).<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_l3Go2kBU3QM\"><div id=\"lyte_l3Go2kBU3QM\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/l3Go2kBU3QM\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/l3Go2kBU3QM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/l3Go2kBU3QM\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Watch at least the first segment, to see Dara come up with a frikkin&#8217; ingenious solution to a geometry problem.<\/p>\n<p>Could there be a show like this broadcast on TV in the US? Of course not. We only have a thousand channels, there&#8217;s no room!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an actual TV show in the UK (based on a Japanese program), broadcast on a channel called Dave. In it, Dara O Briain and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, along with special comedy guests, take on math puzzles (and compete against school-aged math whizzes in the process). Watch this video on YouTube Watch at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474","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=9474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10713,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9474\/revisions\/10713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}