{"id":2225,"date":"2014-03-04T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:37","slug":"and-the-oscar-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2014\/03\/and-the-oscar-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Oscar goes to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m on the topic of science animations (see <a title=\"Animation Students | Alan Shusterman\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2014\/03\/animation-students-take-on-science\/\"><strong>Animation Students take on Science<\/strong><\/a>), here&#8217;s another one that certainly deserves a larger audience. (And maybe should have attracted a little more notice at last Sunday&#8217;s Oscar ceremony?)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What is a Scientific Theory? | YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/d80Lf76Ht18\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What is a Scientific Theory?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video tackles the distinction between scientific theorizing and water-cooler speculation right from the start with, &#8220;You might say that you have a theory about alien spaceships or who ate the last piece of cake, but a scientist would not call these theories.&#8221; One key difference: scientific theories rest on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">facts<\/span>. But there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>Like the animations that I posted yesterday, this one came about as a 2012 class assignment. The class was offered jointly by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and the video was written, animated, and assembled, by two Brown undergrads: Jessica Brodsky and Alexis Shusterman (disclosure: my daughter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m on the topic of science animations (see Animation Students take on Science), here&#8217;s another one that certainly deserves a larger audience. (And maybe should have attracted a little more notice at last Sunday&#8217;s Oscar ceremony?) What is a&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2014\/03\/and-the-oscar-goes-to\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;And the Oscar goes to&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}