{"id":740,"date":"2008-07-26T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=740"},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T13:45:10","slug":"blogging-heads-science-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Heads Science Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Science Saturday&#8221; on Bloggingheads features me and Sabine Hossenfelder, supposedly talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/diavlogs\/12950\">What&#8217;s wrong with string theory<\/a>.  Actually, we both agreed that we were pretty tired of that topic, so tried to discuss some more interesting related issues we both have an interest in.  Here&#8217;s a clip from the full thing, I promise to not start regularly embedding video in this blog:<\/p>\n<p>I hope this thing came out all right.  It was recorded a couple weeks ago, in a process involving no trouble on my end, but heroic efforts on Sabine&#8217;s.  While Sabine had to set the whole thing up on her end, and ended up crouched in an attic since it was the only place she could get a connection of good enough quality, I just sat at my office chair and someone from Bloggingheads took care of everything.  Unfortunately we couldn&#8217;t see each other while talking.  I can&#8217;t really bear the thought of watching myself on video, so I guess I&#8217;ll never see exactly how this turned out, but I&#8217;m glad to see that the turtles on the bookcase behind me made it into the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Sabine has her own posting about this <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/blogging-heads-woit-and-hossenfelder.html\">here<\/a>, and the full thing is <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/diavlogs\/12950\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Science Saturday&#8221; on Bloggingheads features me and Sabine Hossenfelder, supposedly talking about What&#8217;s wrong with string theory. Actually, we both agreed that we were pretty tired of that topic, so tried to discuss some more interesting related issues we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}