{"id":1052,"date":"2008-09-19T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T01:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2008-09-23T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T01:47:49","slug":"a-seminar-side-effect-learning-a-little-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/a-seminar-side-effect-learning-a-little-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A seminar side effect &#8211; learning a little history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the side effects of going to an historic university like Cornell is to learn a little of the local history. My host for the day, who also arranged dinner at a local, popular restaurant called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moosewoodrestaurant.com\/\">Moosewood<\/a>, educated me a little on the local history of Ithaca and Cornell. I was particularly intrigued in the story of Cornell&#8217;s namesake, a man who made his fame and money from his work designing a system to run telegraph lines and connect urban centers with the new technology. A farm tools entrepreneur, he found he needed to go and learn about the physical details of electricity in order to understand why his original design failed. He made a fortune as a founding member of Western Union. What became clear to me was that this area is an excellent representation of the fundamental exploratory and innovative spirit of this nation.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasure to share my research with my colleagues at Cornell, and I certainly hope they enjoyed the experience as much as I did. It was particularly exciting to meet with students over lunch, have a little pizza and soda, and chat a little about the content of my seminar that day. It was also fun to go a little off topic and discuss other questions that they had.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I am heading to Connecticut for a weekend with my parents before driving up to Boston for my colloquium on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the side effects of going to an historic university like Cornell is to learn a little of the local history. My host for the day, who also arranged dinner at a local, popular restaurant called Moosewood, educated me a little on the local history of Ithaca and Cornell. I was particularly intrigued in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-physics","8":"category-travelogue-seminar-series-2008","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}