{"id":3865,"date":"2014-01-17T07:48:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2014-01-17T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:45:23","slug":"first-day-of-classes-spring-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/first-day-of-classes-spring-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of classes, Spring 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wpid-2345785026_bcecd5d112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" title=\"2345785026_bcecd5d112.jpg\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wpid-2345785026_bcecd5d112.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the first day of classes for SMU&#8217;s spring term, 2014. I am again co-teaching our University&#8217;s only &#8220;Introduction to the Scientific Method&#8221; course &#8211; one of only about 25 such courses at Universities and Colleges nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>With a new semester, I also want a new perspective on my writing in this blog. I have done a lot of critical assessment of claims in this venue over the last 2 years. I learned a lot. But I need a break from that activity. Instead, I will focus in this blog on the things I love more deeply &#8211; the process of science as applied to fundamental research. Rather than claim assessment, I would rather write for a while about physics, the LHC and ATLAS, computational work, and developments in the field.<\/p>\n<p>I need a refresh of my perspectives, and I hope this will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the first day of classes for SMU&#8217;s spring term, 2014. I am again co-teaching our University&#8217;s only &#8220;Introduction to the Scientific Method&#8221; course &#8211; one of only about 25 such courses at Universities and Colleges nationwide. With a new semester, I also want a new perspective on my writing in this blog. I [&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":[21,6,158],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-faculty-life","7":"category-science","8":"category-writing","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\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}