{"id":2605,"date":"2016-02-19T17:41:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2016-02-19T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:41:59","slug":"give-yourself-time-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2016\/02\/give-yourself-time-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Give yourself time to think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geophysics.harvard.edu\/home_jxm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Mitrovica<\/a> is a professor of geophysics at Harvard who studies changes in sea-level. He was recently interviewed by the science magazine, Nautilus, (<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/33\/attraction\/why-our-intuition-about-sea_level-rise-is-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise\u00a0is Wrong&#8221;<\/a>, 18 Feb 2016) on such topics as how the earth&#8217;s shape changes when a ice melts, and why sea levels go down near a melting ice mass, but rise farther away. The last question put to him was, <em>Where do your \u201cA-ha!\u201d moments come from?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Mitrovica&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think some scientists would disagree with me, but I think you really do have to <strong>give yourself time to think<\/strong>. You need to have some way in your life as a scientist to mull over what you\u2019re seeing. And I strongly encourage my graduate students to have other interests, because the best way to have that time is to take a break from science. I\u2019ve had moments where I\u2019ve seen something in my models that I\u2019d never seen before and I think, \u201cWell, you know, a good scientist is never going to walk away from that.\u201d A good scientist at that point sort of burrows in and says, \u201cWhy am I seeing that?\u201d Because to see the unexpected is the reward of science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Mitrovica is a professor of geophysics at Harvard who studies changes in sea-level. He was recently interviewed by the science magazine, Nautilus, (&#8220;Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise\u00a0is Wrong&#8221;, 18 Feb 2016) on such topics as how the earth&#8217;s&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2016\/02\/give-yourself-time-to-think\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Give yourself time to think<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","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=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}