{"id":6454,"date":"2010-06-23T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2010-06-23T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:36:58","slug":"a-few-quick-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/06\/23\/a-few-quick-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Quick Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, as an extension of my <a href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/05\/21\/the-newman-chalmers-dispute-pt-1-chymistry-and-natural-philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/05\/31\/the-newman-chalmers-dispute-pt-2-history-philosophy-and-demarcation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part<\/a> post on chymistry and natural philosophy, readers interested in the topic may enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/newton\/alch-newman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this interview with Bill Newman<\/a> for NOVA&#8217;s &#8220;Newton&#8217;s Dark Secrets&#8221; program, which first aired five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Next, my once-and-future <a href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2009\/06\/16\/self-promotion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaborator<\/a> Lambert Williams sends along a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=profile-of-martin-gardner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this profile<\/a> of Martin Gardner, who just recently died.\u00a0 Gardner was a writer, ponderer of things scientific and philosophical, and is probably best-known for his long-running Mathematical Games column in <em>Scientific American<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, for those who like a face to go with their posts, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/newsletter\/current\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest AIP History Center newsletter<\/a>, a typical day for me at the office:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/newsletter\/current\/array_online.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aip.org\/history\/newsletter\/current\/photos\/will.jpg?resize=381%2C253\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The book, by the way, is Galileo&#8217;s <em>Two New Sciences<\/em>.\u00a0 I picked up a cheap used copy on Amazon, but, not being a scholar of 17th-century mechanics, I still haven&#8217;t actually read the thing all the way through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, as an extension of my two&#8211;part post on chymistry and natural philosophy, readers interested in the topic may enjoy this interview with Bill Newman for NOVA&#8217;s &#8220;Newton&#8217;s Dark Secrets&#8221; program, which first aired five years ago. Next, my once-and-future collaborator Lambert Williams sends along a link to this profile of Martin Gardner, who<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; A Few Quick Bits<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2010\/06\/23\/a-few-quick-bits\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[668,1029,1554],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-isaac-newton","tag-martin-gardner","tag-willian-newman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}